bathroom reno

The previous owner of our house fancied himself handy and redid the bathroom. However, the genius put standard drywall in the shower which quickly started to grow mold. Gross. So, Dennis and I decided that it had to go and we committed to reno the bathroom. Now when I say we, I generally mean Dennis doing the hard labour and me giving the disapproving looks and moaning about how long its taking.

Here is what the bathroom started like:

The highlights you will quickly notice are the lovely linoleum flooring, the 70s style storage unit/mirror and the wainscoting.

Because of the mold Dennis literally took the entire bathroom apart.

At this stage I was having a massive panic attack, but I kept my cool on the outside.

For the new bathroom we decided on glass tile for the tub area - which we found out later is one of the most difficult to install - gray tiles for the floor, a new tub, a new toilet, new paint colour on the walls and a new mirror.

4 weeks, much complaining, many drives to and from Byron (we stayed with Sandy B while this was all being done), 100 trips to Home Depot, many charges to the Home Depot credit card later the bathroom was complete.
 

 
Now that's better. But next time I think we will just pay the experts.

The Backyard DIY

While Sandy B, Uncle Nick, Jenny, Victoria and I were busy with our projects, Dennis, John and Madamba got busy building the deck in the backyard.

Den and Vic on the deck for mom's birthday dinner...

DIY at 678

It has been a busy time at 678 these past weeks. We have been diving into several out door projects and to get them done we had to call in the reinforcements!

First, Sandy B and Uncle Nick were called in to build the garbage caddie. For far too long our garbage bins and recycle containers have been an eye sore for me and the neighbours. So first, Den laid down a flat floor with garden tiles - I helped but not very much :). From there Uncle Nick and Sandy B built the lovely little house shown below for all of our ugly things

































While the garbage caddie construction was going on my friend Jenny, my sister Victoria and I were busy staining the wood porch we put in last year. And wow what a difference a can of stain did!






























Did I mention we also built a deck in our backyard the same weekend? That's for my next post :)