Here are a few pictures of how our main bathroom is coming along. I still have to re-caulk some areas, paint the baseboard molding, glue the sink back into place… but it’s almost there! I’m very happy with it. I think this project has given us the ambition to move forward on other projects around the house, too. For example, we now have a new faucet in the kitchen… and a new dining table and chairs! More on that in a future post. Here’s a hint: it’s pink!

 

These picture gives the most accurate shade of what the paint color looks like in there. It is called “Tear Drop” by Pittsburgh Paint. I used their Manor Hall line of paint in a pearl sheen so that it’s easy to wipe down.

The photo wall is mostly things we picked up last summer when we were on vacation at Bethany Beach; Jason’s family has been going there for vacation for years and years and I love it there! The silver frame in the top right holds a draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl.” I just ripped it out of a book I had used for my thesis way back when since I figured I would most likely never read that book again and I love that poem! Underneath it, which you can’t read because of the reflection of the glass due to the light (we don’t have any natural light in this bathroom so it is very hard to photograph!) is a quote from e.e. cummings which reads “for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” I just fancied it up with some interesting font choices. On the left, the grey canvas was a gift we received this Christmas! Isn’t it cute? You can customize similar ones over at Red Envelope.

The floating cabinet above the toilet is a part of the Better Homes & Garden collection that’s at Wal-Mart. Yes, I said it. Wal-Mart! It was crazy cheap and I was in love with the cottage-style of it.

Installing the faucet wasn’t my favorite project but I am in love with its shape! The best part for us is that it has an aerator. Our old faucet did not have one, and we weren’t able to install a new one because the threads inside the faucet were damaged. So anytime we or a guest would wash their hands, water came out at full speed! It’s so nice not to warn anyone using that sink anymore! You can see in this picture that I still need to re-caulk around the sink bowl, too.

So there you have it! Just a few updates and the bathroom looks and feels like new. I just wish I could find a magic cleaner that would make the twenty year-old linoleum look whiter on the floor, but I can handle it until we do a bigger renovation to this bathroom (most likely in 2013).

I’ll have more pictures once we finish the last few things on our list! We have a lot to tackle in the next few months because we decided to have our rehearsal dinner at our house for our wedding. Crazy, right? Yes we are.

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Here is a sneak peak of our main bathroom. We are about 95% done! I should hope to have pictures by the end of this week.

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So I finally decided that we should replace the baseboard heater in our main bathroom. Don’t ask me why I wanted to this week, but it stuck with me and we ordered it through our warehouse at work. Our old one was rusted over and I kept painting the rust to hide it!

It came in on wednesday, and we installed it that night.

However.

I made a mistake. I will admit it here for all to read because I am usually the one nagging Jason that he needs to measure, measure, then cut.

I measured the heater wrong. Our original heater was 36″ long and for some reason, I memorized that I needed a 30″ heater in my head. So we were 6″ off.

But we went ahead, because I was angry at my mistake and we had already started to take the old one off. See the rust? That is the main reason why this desperately needed to be replaced.

Please note: always turn off the breaker! Do not attempt to install a new heater without doing this step first!

The way our heater is installed is there are two supply wires that you need to connect. But Jason called his dad and rechecked the manual just to make sure.

Once we connected the wires all we had to do was screw it back into the wall and we were done!

As you can see from the picture above, Jason and I decided that we would just replace the baseboard molding in the bathroom in order to fix our mistake in measuring. Because our bathroom only needed less than 8′ of molding, buying one piece at Lowes did not break out bank (around $8).

Here is a picture of our bathroom without molding. It looks ugly. It makes me want to tear up the old linoleum!

So just like any other project we’ve done, I started thinking about what else we could do to the bathroom while I had the molding off…

So here is what is on my to-do list for this weekend:

• Change the paint color
• Create a photo wall
• Add a decorative shelf behind the shower
• Replace the shower curtain rod (old one is covered in paint and bent)
• Re-caulk around the tub
• Replace lighting
• Repaint the vanity

Hope everyone has a great weekend! This sunday, I will be stuck between cheering for my family’s team, the Patriots, and my husband’s team, the Ravens. It will be stressful!

 

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