Bathroom Progress

We had been without a toilet or sink for almost a month and decided that it was time to hooked them up again. First, the baseboard piece that goes behind the toilet had to be installed. To do this, we had to remove some of the tile around the bathtub. We left the baseboard piece long because we are not sure how the new tiles will fit. We will trim it to length once the shower tiling is complete.

 

 

 The toilet was set in place and hooked up. As you can see, the main baseboard is the only piece in place. The top and bottom portions will be easy to slide in and attach even with the toilet in the way.

 The wall by the sink is all painted and ready to go. We took down the light and cleaned it up then reinstalled the same one. We also hung the new mirror on the wall that will be over the sinks.

 

Painting the baby room

We decided to paint the walls of the baby room to lighten it up a bit and to a color that went better with our crib selection. We tried out several light blue samples first. We also painted a big piece of cardboard in the color of the crib (which is not arriving for another month) to see which color it went best with. Tyler did most of the painting while Kristen was working so she didn't get all the fumes but she did do some cutting in of the paint.

 The new color brightens up the room a lot. Now all that's left is painting the ceiling and a few baseboard touch ups. We now have to start getting furniture and organizing.

Bathroom wall patching and removing medicine cabinet

 We rerouted the electrical lines and patched up the wall in the bathroom. Because we have a new large storage closet, we are getting rid of the medicine cabinet and just hanging a wall mirror. It would be nice to have one but we couldn't find anything in a style we liked that was the right size.

 We decided to keep the wall light in the same place, which will be centered on our new sink unit.

 It still needs sanding and at least one more coat of joint compound before we can texture, paint, and put up baseboard.