I'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN

Today,   New Years Day  I finished gutting the bathroom.    Like all remodeling,  the little job grew and grew.  but the good news is I got lots of exercise carrying all the plaster out to the dumpster.    I was able to keep one and 1/2 walls in tact.   I had to completely tear out the three walls around the tub.     My nephew Dillon came over today and helped me finish that part of the project.    Now I have to decide on a Tub.   After I install that I can do the floor and walls.   I opened up the area above the tub.   I will still have the storage area above the cabinet.   I'll have to reframe that in of course.       So I met my first goal of getting everything torn out before my break was over.   I'm sitting in my TV room and looking at the paneling and have to keep myself from tearing this room up too.   One room at a time my friend........i haven't had to use my tread mill the last few days 'cause I've put the time in on my room. .....   New year how wonderful.......At this age people start asking when I will quit working.   I think that is funny.     I've got a good 10 years of the joy of teaching ahead of me.

i think it's going to beat me.

Well I've been banging on my bathroom for about a week now.   I think it is winning.  I'm glad I have other bathrooms.  I have a wall and a half left.     My arms won't work anymore to hammer.  ....... The dumpster I ordered is suppose to come today.  I'll feel better when I'm not climbing over the stuff on the floor.   5 gallon buckets hold about 50 lbs of stuff I'm guessing.   I have 4 full in the garage and 4 garbage cans full or plaster/concrete/tile.  

NEW QUESTION .......     DO I TEAR OUT THE STORATE ABOVE THE TUB TO OPEN UP THE AREA????    Joel and Josh both thought I should.   It makes a big job bigger but if I don't do it now it will never happen.

pink tub cast iron monster

I'm not done banging.  bam bam ....... I feel like bam bam from the flintstones........ I had be pecking away at the walls........   looked over at the tub and decided it was time for it to go....... I still have 3 days until I get the dumpster but what the heck.......on insulation on the outside wall. ....  maybe that is why the tub was always cold.   ........    That is a heater under the window......    I'll use the elctrical wire to run the hot tub.........I've never used the heater.

sink go bye bye

growling screaming a couple of tantrums and a shower thanks to the sink.  but I won!  The sink is history.  Next is the built in mirror that has already cut me a few times.    

I'm such a hick

Hammering away at this floor   good night I thought I would never be done.  but at last i am of course I have every garbage can i own full of concrete and tile  dumpster is suppose to come next week because of course I didn't plan ahead.   Plan ahead  what is that i don't know why this is all underlined it is quite frustration.  but maybe I'm just saying important things.  not.     Now I'm starting on the walls.   I have to go to the hardware store to get caps for the water before I can yank out the sink.      Remember I have a one year deadline to put this back together.  lol

The pink bathroom must die.

The toilet chose it own death a few months ago.   It refused to work properly.  So it was replaced by a beautiful new high toilet.   I love this toilet.     It will come back to the new improved bathroom.    I'm not big on pedistal sinks.    It will go.    I like the eruoopean sink that has a small cabinet and the sink in big and roundish.   The tub will die.  I'm putting in a new jacuzee  tub.      and the cabinet has already injured me twice so it will go.

The floor is beautiful but it is pink.  uh yuck  and more yuck.    I started and the wall by the door and of course it in backed by concrete so it only took me an hour to do a 3ft square.  and the floor is going to make me wish I hadn't started.  but it is going. 

I now need your opinion.    do I replace the tile with tile or plaster and paint?

do I tile around the tub or do and insert?

What kind of vanity do you like?

lights above the vanity?   what kind.

Ok now I spend my christmas vacation killing the bathroom.    only to hope it rises from the ashes new and improved.   I do promise you it will not be pink.

Josh destroyed my kitchen

a year ago Josh came down and got interested in fixing my pocket door. I purchased a kit online that was suppose to replace your pocket door track w/0 tearing up the wall. ahhh yeah sure. didn't happen.

I decided to take advantage of the opportunity and replace the range hood with a microwave. of coourse in order to do this I had to shorten the cabinet and rewire the electricity and retile part of the wall. So one year later I have the project done.   or relatively done.

Then of course I had this dream of having a moveable counter  on the opposite wall as my sink.   My sons made a bar for thier college apt.   They gave it to a friend upon graduation.  The friend no longer had room for it so they gave it to me.   I shortened the bar by a foot to make it counter height and put a larger top on it.     Now joel is working with his heat press to make tile counter top with a design in it.     My goal for this project is christmas 2009 but I have hope.  

the interesting thing about my energy is I will work around the clock for a week and then not touch the project for another year.  haha       I did tell myself that I had to finish last year's project before I started this years.   and I did.   I've had surplus energy for two weeks now.    so the projects are moving along.    I'm going to start another blog to tell you about my next project.