Finishing Touches

Everywhere I look in the house we have counters full of food from the garden. We need a bigger kitchen.
There was this concrete door sill that was between the backroom and kitchen. We kept a rug over it all this time and yesterday we finally did something about it. We used floor paint and painted wood grain into the wet base paint.
The space in between the door way isn't even that bad now.
The floor to the bathroom needed the divider too, so we purchased a $5.00 metal piece for that.

I have about 15 more things to do and I think we can say we are finished with the Mo House. They are are little things like above that we have just been living with..

New Tub Done

The new tub is done today. When we first arrived for our Summer Vacation we didn't have hot water or a shower or much of a house for that matter, but on our way out we got to remember the good ol' days. A lot of other things happend today as well but it is just tiny details that no one would probably notice except for us. They all add up however. Why is it that we are willing to live with some things but when it comes time to selling we want everything just so?

New Bath Tub

So the wonderful Aqua Glass tub we purchased from Lowes wasn't so wonderful after all. See all the reviews at Lowes own website: http://www.lowes.com/pd_184824-332-39264L_0_?productId=1052649&Ntt=aqua glass tub&Ntk=i_products&Ns=p_product_quantity_sold0&pl=1&currentURL=/pl__0__s?newSearch=true$Ntt=aqua glass tub$y=12$x=45

Ours cracked just like the other 109 people who wrote a review there.

So today I purchase a metal tub. I really enjoyed breaking the old tub out with the hammer. I would show pictures of that but it isn't pretty.

After a bit I was able to put the new tub in place today.
I recut new tile and glued it all up. Tomorrow I will grout it all and those dark lines will go away. So anyway if you want to purchase a tub for $200 and then rip it out and buy a different tub you should really check into the Aqua Glass products. They stink!

The other thing we did today is make a list on what we still have to do on the house. I figure four long days and this house will be complete. I am always wrong on time, so lets say 8 days and this house will be complete.

Before and after bathroom

Sometimes when I am running out of steam, I like to look at before and afters just to get a shot in the arm and keep going. Here is one of the bathroom. :)

Bathroom lights are in

So after a time of ordering lights and not getting them we finally found these lights and they arrived yesterday. I put them right in away as it makes getting ready easier in the morning if you can see.

A hole in the wall

Today I want to put a new door way into a wall. Here is the front and back views of the wall before the hole.

Redneck Bathtub Removal...Day or Night 3 days a week.

This morning I had to remove the old bathtub. The thing is about 200lbs so I didn't want to drag it through the house, messing everything up. So I dropped her in the basement, which has outside stairs going to it. The basement is also our redneck dumpster service as you can see. Don't ask me how the bathtub made it all the way over there, it just sort of bounced just missing the water heater. So for all of you needing your cast iron bathtub removed don't hesitate to call. I might show up and then again I might not. I know you will be happy with the service and if ya ain't it's yer fault! You might have a plumber, an electrician and maybe the fire department at the job site just in case you mess up.

Birthday Tear Out

So today I have taken out a few walls and opened up the space that is going to be the bedroom. I still need to take the cast iron tub and closet on the side out.

bye bye old bathroom

Friday night, something so cool happened. We showered in our new bathroom. We also used our new sink and our new toilet. The toilet is the best part as all we have to do is push the lever and everything goes away. Before with the old one we would run the kitchen sink, a little bit of the tub, hold the lever down for about 20 seconds, jiggle it and then come back a few minutes later to make sure the thing stopped running. The new toilet is done in less then three seconds. Now what will we do with all this new found time. :) Pictures of the new bath will follow shortly once I finish the built in wall cabinets. My wife found the perfect shower curtain, towels and rug for the bath. She just puts things together so well. On top of all this excitement we started the demo of the old bath, hall and closet. That little hall closet was the only closet in the whole house. Right now the back porch, the future second bedroom is a walk in closet for us. Tearing off old plaster is kind of fun. Everything is being torn out, the walls, closet and such. The space will then be big enough for a master bedroom. Before my wife gets home today I would like it to be all the way torn out so off I go. It's my birthday too! I am building us a bedroom for my birthday, which is really kind of cool.

A sink and toilet

Grouted up the tile yesterday and put toilet & sink in this morning. How about them apples!

Flooring too!

We just put the floor down. So nice.

some paint on the walls

Things are progressing nicely in the bath. We put some paint on the walls this morning. I can't wait to install the fixtures.

Tile has begun

Today the tile has begun in the bath. Hopefully it will go fast.

Bathroom Faucet found

The other day we found the perfect bathroom faucet. Because the sink we have is an 8" faucet base, the faucets were over $100. So we came across this one well under that price and it will go with the cottage look we are doing. At least that is the hope. As the bathroom progresses we will find out.

Bathroom colors

Today we found the flooring, tile and paint color for the bathroom. It is a bummer that I cannot get the color right in the photograph but it is white, sorta light green and brown. Also this past weekend my bride was huggin Boo Boo so I just had to share this photograph.

In the last few days the bathroom has grown. First the plumbing, electrical, drywall and the door was put in. On the door you can see the old bedroom door that use to be there. It will be a nice improvement. This is a door that came out of Barry and Renee's old farm house. It matches the style of the house perfectly. If it was 100 years ago can you imagine someone taking a door in a Wisconsin Farm house and trucking it down to Missouri? Wild times we live in. Anyway's I can't believe how fast the bathroom is being put together. Boo Boo was barking at me last night as I hung the door. If it wasn't for him barking I would have totally messed up the install. He is my supervisor. I don't know how he knows construction. I think there is an angel that squeezes him and makes him bark as I am about to mess something up. I know there are messenger and warrior angels but construction angels?

Christmas Tree in MIssouri

Merry Christmas everyone. We were given a tree last Fall to put out on the front porch. We brought it in to use as our Christmas tree and now it is flowering.:)

Also the past couple of days the bathroom has been started. I just finished appling the glue to the drain waste system (so I am high than a kite from the fumes) I hope to have the project done on New Years. I don't know if I can build a bathroom that quick but we will find out. The blue wall behind the studs will be torn out and become part of the bedroom. It could be a second bedorrm for really tall skinny people. lol

Bathroom Begins

A wall will be built on the blue line (photo below) making the bath 5" x 8" and by knocking down a wall we will have 11' x 11' for a bedroom, which will be great for a few reasons. One we are use to a bed room the is 11" x 8" and two we have one closet in the whole house which is 2' wide 3' deep and 10' high with no way to reach the upper shelves. When we get done we hope to have an 11' long closet in the bedroom.

Yesterday we started the bathroom. You can see the general layout from the photo as well as what the bathroom looked like before we started.