The homeowner is always the last to know! Today I stumbled across photos of our house and a really nice article on Apartment Therapy San Francisco. The article posted almost a year ago and we had no idea. I’m such an Apartment Therapy fan so this is very exciting!
Check out the article here.
We replaced the glass in the bathroom medicine cabinet. I hid a photo of us behind the glass to be found someday.
I wrote a brief note on the back of the photo. I probably should have written something more poetic, instead I scrawled out the first thing that came to mind. Our names, the date and “We remodeled the bathroom. I hope we did a good job. We tried our best. We purchased the house Sept. 2002. The 4th owners. Will anyone even find this someday? Love and best wishes to the future!”
And I do wonder if anyone will ever find it? A part of me must be an optimist.
Bathrooms, Paint, Restoration Diary
Finding the right shade of white paint can be a very difficult process. After trying numerous whites that were too blue, too green or too just not right, I hand mixed my own color. It is a pretty, soft white with a gray undertone. The bright white trim makes the wall color stand out.
For those who haven’t been following along, we haven’t been able to bathe at home since our tub was removed. There is no other tub or shower in the house. The tub was held up in Customs and several other delays.
Our bathtub has finally arrived and is in place. Now, if we could just get ahold of the plumber. I am one stinky, cranky woman and I WILL hunt him down. Only kidding…sort-of.
Bathrooms, Restoration Diary, Tile
Slow and steady wins the race, right? We might not be fast but we sure are proud! Check out the subway tile.
Restoration Diary, Bathrooms, Tile
White ceramic subway tile from Dal-Tile is being installed. I’m so excited! The bathroom is finally starting to look a little bit like my inspiration photo.
Look who decided to walk across the still wet cement floor, leaving tiny paw prints in his wake. The Project Supervisor, otherwise known as Jack and more recently other names that I won’t post here, decided that he needed to look out the bathroom window now, right now.
The bathroom door is being stripped in the backyard, so I put up a barricade to keep Jack out. It is going to take more than my feeble attempts to stop him. Now that he is successfully inside the bathroom he refuses to budge. I am reduced to opening cans of cat food outside the bathroom door, but he is having none of that.
He is lying underneath the window on the still wet cement, safely out of reach, and I swear he is laughing at me.
The cement board, which goes underneath the tile, is mostly installed. All of the fixtures, lights and hardware have arrived with one major exception, our bathtub! It is 3 weeks late due to a bottleneck at the warehouse. Frustrating!
Our house has never had a shower and now we don’t have a tub. Oh, the dreaded phase of our project! I have not been looking forward to it. This is one way to get me to the gym…if not to work out, at least to shower.
The Green House
Stripping Paint and Refinishing Woodwork
Historical Bathroom Photos“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
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