More progress

Well, we got the doors delivered and one of them is now painted and installed. The other one is a bit of an annoying story. As with almost every renovation I've ever heard of, we had a glitch. I order the doors primed and machined to my specs. This way I didn't have to mess with buying new tools and finding a workspace to do everything. So the doors arrive and the bathroom door is next to perfect. I had to trim a little bit to fit the hinges, but otherwise a perfect fit. I painted it and installed it and it was damn sexy. The bedroom door, however, was NOT perfect. I took a look and realized the door would open the wrong way. It was machined wrong. BASTARDS! So I called the store where I got the doors and told them what happened. They replaced the door pretty quick, but since they only deliver during the day on weekdays I had to figure out how to receive them, since I'm usually at work during the day. Luckily I had a day where I had to go to our Surrey office, so I stopped at home on my way there and received the door. The new door is right, so all I have to do is paint it and install it and we're good to go!

I also painted the front door with i think like 4 coats of paint. For some reason the door looks yellowish and the door casing is white... it's annoying. I friggin' primed the thing so this wouldn't happen, and it happens anyway! oh well, still looks better than the fake wood grain crap.

Last weekend we purchased the tile for the bathroom floor and tub walls. For the floor we got a nice 12x24 grey porcelain tile. It sort of looks like slate, but it's more uniform in colour and the surface is flatter. For the tub walls we got a 4x16 white glazed ceramic tile. We'll be laying this in a brick pattern and it should look very nice. We still need to pick up the tile for behind the vanity. We're going to be tiling the wall that the mirror hangs on with multi-shade glass mosaic tiles. it's going to look swanky.

I'll post pictures of the doors and tiles to the gallery later.