A Glimpse of the Future

So Deb made a mock-up of what the bathroom will look like when it's all done. Here it is

The start of the middle of the end....

Tomorrow we are starting the middle of our bathroom project. We are ripping out the old vanity and counter top so that the floors can be tiled on Monday and Tuesday. Then on the following Monday our new vanity will arrive and be installed. Then the backsplash needs to go up and after that, the last pieces installed (mirror and light fixtures). So the tentative completion date is March 3rd.

Window Shopping

We've been to a few furniture stores recently as we are desperate to get rid of our old couch. It's green, huge and the padding is gone from the arm rests. We saw a few things that we liked a lot but they were either too expensive or too big. As much as we liked the couch from Lazy Boy, the eleven foot sectional will not fit in our tiny place. And the couch that was the perfect size, was double our couch budget. The same problem comes up with light fixtures too. We cannot justify buying the perfect light fixture for the dining area if it costs $700 as we would not be taking it with us when we sell.

I think that when we have finally found the pieces that we want we will have gone to every furnishing store there is....

More money spent!

This past weekend we went and picked up our new bathroom sink and faucet. Here's a photo of the sink:



And here's the faucet that will be installed on it:



We can't wait to use it. I have a clog in the P-trap in the current sink which is slowing the draining of water. I'm too lazy to take the trap apart and clean it out, especially since we're re-doing that plumbing in a month or so... weird timing.

In 2 weeks we're going to the cabinet maker to order our new vanity. It will be very sleek and sexy.

In sadder news, our dishwasher (which seems to have lived for 33 years) has died on us. On New Years day, in fact. It cleans the dishes, but the pump that pumps the water out of the dishwasher is busted. so we now have to wash things by hand. That makes me a saaaad panda!

More work

It's the end of 2007. Deb and I have been in the condo for 9 months now. And although it's been livable for that time, it's never been perfectly organized or tidy. It still isn't, really. But it's better. We spent today doing our normal chores of cleaning and during that time, something happened. We finally started going through some of the things that have been sitting there staring at us saying "WTF man, do something with me" I think I threw out (donated to Salvation Army) half my clothes. Our closet has been optimized (the best it can) so we finally have a linen closet. The bedroom now has room all the way around the bed to walk. All our crap we had in the corner of the living room is now stored (though I still need a big tool chest for all my tools... Xmas 2008?). Later, Deb is going to organize our desk. She has the day off tomorrow, so I'm making her do it. Yay!

Motivation

I haven't done much since the bathroom... and that's an understatement. We have a lot that needs to be done, but finding the motivation to do it is pretty difficult. I'm lazy by nature, so that's a big factor. I'd rather get comfortable on the couch and watch TV or some DVDs then do physical work. But it needs to get done. I still have a lot of patching up to do on the walls, and sanding, priming and then eventually... painting. Our main hallway closet needs to be rebuilt since it's a complete waste of space right now and the "shelves" that are in there are all falling apart. We still don't know how we're going to go about doing this, since the back wall is just drywall glued to concrete. Nothing to screw into.

We still have to order a vanity for the bathroom, as well as the countertop and sink etc etc. Until I do this, I can't remove the old vanity, which means I also can't install the new floor tiles. We're probably looking at February for the vanity, since it's not a cheap thing to do.

Anyone want to do the work for me? :P

Updates

Since my last post we haven't done a WHOLE lot. But we've done a couple things here and there.

-I got quotes for cabinets and a countertop for the bathroom
-I patched all the holes in the drywall in the bathroom
-I patched some of the drywall damage in the main hall that I didn't do last time

I think that's really about it. I'll probably finish off the drywall patching this weekend and get a coat of primer up.