Apr 23, 2013

My new bathroom

IT'S FINALLY DONE!!!
Five years ago, we moved into the house we live in.  Five years ago, I took my first shower in the upstairs bathrooom, and water leaked through to the kitchen ceiling below.  We haven't used that bathroom since (we have another full bathroom on the first floor).
Three years ago, I got ambitious and thought I could take on the renovation myself.  I took a sledge hammer to the tile surround, and found that the wall behind was PLYWOOD.  It was so rotten you could put your hand right through it! Worse yet, the plywood went above the plane of the ceiling, so we would have to cut back the ceiling (or take it down completely) to get the wood out.  So I focused on taking down the nasty wallpaper.  And found that the gypsum board behind it was DESTROYED.  Unsalvageable.  We went to take out the vanity, and the water shut-offs didn't work.  The list goes on.
So, for 3 years, that bathroom door has stayed closed while we ignored the problem (since we had another fully functionally bathroom).

This year, we finally decided to hire someone to do the work.  It was supposed to be 2 weeks.  It started April 1st, and finished yesterday, a week and a half behind schedule (he ended up working Saturdays too).  We encountered just about every problem you could think of once the bathroom was gutted.  Our house was built in 1920, it's got some history, but it's also got some issues.  The framing was bad, the roof was leaking, the old cast iron pipes all needed to be replaced, there was no insulation in the exterior walls, the door had to be moved, the floor was unlevel and the framing needed extra support...the list goes on.  All I can say is, THANK GOD IT'S DONE!  I took my first shower in my new bathroom this morning and it was glorious. 
Now for your viewing pleasure, the pictures:

Before:

(Yes that's a mint green tub and matching sink...no we didn't save those ;)

During:



 
 
After!!!






 
And just for good measure, me in the beautiful new lighting that my new bathroom gives me :)
 
 
Happy Tuesday!!

Apr 1, 2013

HUUUUGE GIVEAWAY!!!!

Ok peeps, I've teamed up with some fine ladies to bring you a ginormous giveaway today (no, this is not a cruel April Fool's joke!) There's some awesome prizes involved here so take a look below to get all the details!! (And yes, I know the formating is a bit screwy on my blog, but the design code was provided to me and I'm not quite sure how to fix it, so you're just going to have to deal :-P)

This past week Laura from Walking in Memphis in High Heels reached 1,000 followers on her blog!  To celebrate and thank her readers, she has teamed up with some of her favorite bloggers to have a huge giveaway!  Please take a moment to show these women (and one man) some love!  One lucky reader will win a $300 gift card to J.Crew, a $200 gift card to Target and a $200 gift card to Sephora!  How amazing is that?!  You can check out each blog by clicking on the link below their name, and enter the giveaway by using the Rafflecopter below.
 
 
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Andrea D  ||  Andrea M  ||  Angela

 
 
Alyssa  ||  Amy D  ||  Analisa

 
 
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