Bathroom Jen: Older, Wiser...

There have been many epic battles that mere mortals have courageously faced head on. The Battle of Hastings, the Siege of Orleans. Neither lost to the endless span or clutter of history, will forever be to my recollection, allegedly, among the ranks of this bathroom remodel.

She is woman, hear her grout.

It is now July 14th and we began this journey on June 16th. I miss my real bathroom.

Just yesterday Guy finished the tile. Today it's my job to give the room a good clean up so we may grout in the next two days. I cannot tell you how refreshing it feels to be doing something other than installing tile! One more trip to the tile aisle at the Euclid Home Depot and they are going to crown me Grand Marshal of mortar.

Oh, but the recessed lighting is in place, and it looks even more stellar than I could have hoped! This update is more of an excuse for a photo dump, so without further teasing...

2 layers of linoleum under the old cement board

Shelves!

Tiled! We had the shorten the shelf at left

I TOLD you these looked outstanding!

Mosaic over the plumbing line

 We chose our grout color, too. I think it'll go very nicely with the tile:

So what's that leave?

• Grout walls and floor
• Install vanity and sink
• Install glass shelves
• Install new exhaust fan

New Year's Resolution: Kitchen

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas! It's time for me to start getting the Xmas stuff down, and that gets me thinking about getting back on track with this house. It's so easy to get distracted from the onset of fall, isn't it?

I think my next target is going to be a room that got a slight makeover, the kitchen.

We painted the walls a nice, neutral gray (from a 90's puke puce) and replaced the linoleum (what was left of it, a fake parquet wood linoleum), per the POS.

Glidden Pebble Gray and Armstrong Slate Sand & Sky

Those minor changes got the room looking presentable. I'm left with the cabinets and this vent thing above where we put the refrigerator.

It's supposed to be a vent for the oven but upon poking around upstairs, it has not one, but TWO 90 degree bends, and it's not powered! I've been itching since day 1 to take a sledgehammer to it and howdoyalike that, Guy got a sledgehammer for Christmas!

We also have a newer, smaller, deeper steel sink waiting to replace the old, shallow one. I'm torn on cabinetry. I'd love to suck it up and have a consultant come in, but in that world I'm also Princess of the unicorns.

Weird vent thing upper right.

Could I move around cabinetry I already have? I think it would like nice to put shorty cabinets over the fridge after that vent wall is knocked out. Then I need to think on countertops and cabinet colors. Accent lighting has to happen in here, too. There's no window by the sink!

Little Cape's New Power!

The Little Cape Cod has a brand new service panel! What a far cry from this hot mess!


Better, isn't it? I would SO highly recommend A&M electric if you need an HONEST electrician in the Cleveland area. I am so happy with the work they provided and how friendly they were. To boot, they were 50% cheaper and 75% cheaper than my other 2 estimates.

I also picked out the peel and stick tile that's going to get us through at least a few years in the kitchen:

Armstrong "Slate Sand & Sky"

 Not bad at $.75 a tile. I figure for about $100 I can have the kitchen floor done, which works, because it's on the POS... how convenient!

The hardwood is gonna get sanded and poly'd, too... so we have out work cut out for us, and by all means, if you've any spare cash laying around...