Sheet Rocking Updates

I know that what you all REALLY want are updates with pictures, so I thought I'd deliver!
Sheet rocking and demo are still the words of the week in our school of remodleing, but I am so pleased with the changes! Take a look!


Here's the big family room without carpet, the brick planter or cedar planks. It really, really opens it up (forgive me for the ladder in the picture. I had been cleaning up debris and was too tired to move it)!

Yay for sheet rock! Hooray!

I can't wait to see the house painted in the soft colors we picked out. It is going to make everything seem so much lighter and brighter!


Here's a wider angle.... you can also see all of the dust from sanding sheet rock mud!

It's the crazy room! Much better already!

They skim coated over the old polka dots - it almost looks like some sort of modern wall decor.


These pictures are from the guest bath. We took down the old mirrors and found this wall paper behind it. It came down (wallpaper) so easily. What do you think of the pattern?


Below are pictures of the master bedroom and bathroom. There was old wall paper on one wall and it did NOT come down easily. It was bringing the sheet rock with it, so we had to stop. Our wonderful paint crew is coming up with a solution for this dilemma.

Stacked in the middle of this room is the new flooring for the bedrooms.

Here's my favorite worker demo-ing the bathroom in the middle of a snow storm!

Here's how it looks with out the tub and dust particles. We will not put a new tub in just yet. We are going to save up for another claw-foot tub! We just love ours at the old house!
And the shower..... it had to be gutted. Any ideas for decor with this bathroom? I'm so excited to have a new BIG bathroom! I have had such a small one for so long!

So what do you think? Any suggestions? Where should I look for bathroom ideas?

Be Our Guest...

I was thinking the other day about things that we have and haven't done with the house and it occurred to me that I haven't posted any real "after" pictures of the things we worked on.

Remember the guest bathroom upstairs? Pepto walls, brown tile, nasty vanity and plastic baseboards? Yeah. Well, without further ado, here's the after pictures!

Gatsby "using" the new toilet in the guest bath as a place to take a bath...
The wonderful, wonderful old tub. I LOVE it. It is so awesome to soak in because it is deep, you can lay back and rest your head and because it is cast iron, it holds the heat in very well. Now, if anyone out there has experience in putting up those shower curtain thingies that hang from the ceiling and walls let me know. Our ceilings are 10 ft and the position of the tub is different than most, so it poses a huge problem in the shower unit department.
Wainscoting and a towel rack - with my lovely centennial tea towel!
Gatsby on the green toilet - it is not as efficient as you might think...

Lil' Henri shows off the tile floor. Not the original wood (which we wanted but was in too rough of shape) or the hexagonal tiles (WAY too expensive for our budget), but it looks slightly older and you can walk on it without fear of getting tetanus or some other strange disease!

Yay! Sideways shots! Here's the sink.
And a very bad picture of the washstand from the flea market my mom/Grams bought for us to put up here. I really love it though. I considered stealing it from the bathroom and putting it somewhere else, but it really does best in here and dresses things up nicely.
I think it came out great!!!!

Hold It!

You probably won't be able to use the upstairs bathroom for another month or two...

And by then, the poop inspired brown tile which once graced the walls of this pepto-pink bathroom will be replaced with lovely white bead board and pretty light blue (or lavender-not sure yet...) walls.

I know you're sad. The "Bodily Function" theme and the "Nature Calls" theme (which is shown by the gardening/floral aspect of the wall paper border) were very moving, if you know what I mean....

The interior designers were oh so clever in the colors they used while thinking of what goes on in the bathroom... And we will be, too.

However, our theme goes more with antacids, soothing bubble baths, feeling healthy and clean as opposed to heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea - YAY! Pepto bismol!!!!!!!!!!

So, our indigestion has subsided a little by the removal of a crumbling ceiling with a ridiculously tiny fan (that was barely attached) and a covered vent to...

a ceiling properly fitted with green-board and will be adorned with a exhaust fan/vent with a light.

We've yet to pick a vanity, vanity light fixture, sink fixture, etc. but we'll keep you posted!

Next rest area in 100 miles!!!!!!