Making a Splash in the Bathroom

 This winter was spent working on the bathroom and getting the details done. As of now it is done with the exception of trim. Remember when we bought the house the toilet was in the middle of the floor, the vanity wasn't connected, the floor was a weird press board, and the pipes were burst. Honestly, it was the scariest room in the house. We reused the original vanity to get us by. The floor was tiled shortly after we closed and a new shower and toilet was installed. There's another post about all that. This is for the latest stuff!

 Finished off the walls and primed walls around the toilet 'cubby'

Upclose Texture

 Blue Walls and White Vanity!!!

This shows the linen cabinet we found at ReStore,
the Habitat for Humanity place. It's a perfect fit!

 Instead of a medicine cabinet we have a mirror!

 This is the worlds most awesome toilet paper holder! No springs to worry about!

  Light remounted!

Brush Nickel Surround/Backsplash for the shower was the final touch.

Top to Bottom

We've known for some time how bad the previous owners were in regards to doing anything right. The roof job reaffirmed that assessment. It also confirmed my absolute terror of high places and extension ladders. Oh, and we found a bunch of yellow jackets, which is the only reason I went onto the roof to help be lookout so Kevin could work

The rotten piece that need to be replace, the first learning of poor decking//construction

Shingles and Tarpaper over Shingles is appropriate, Right?

Nice new decking w/ geometry involved

 Pretty new shingles :)

Got the backyard smoothed out and seeded, again hopefully the weather will cooperate and the erosion won't go into the back porch!

Yards are Overrated

Rented an excavator to start making the trenches for the drainage setup. We have quite the trenches going.

Pallet bridge, only one was used on a dangerous crossing, but it was a good picture opt

Massive pile of dirt

Hole along the side of the house. This way we can fix the concrete.

Safety fence to keep kids from falling into the 8ft hole

Twin trenches

We got 4 loads of dirt while we had the excavator. Had the excavator on the trailer behind the borrowed truck and used it to load our truck.

Big hole, 8ft deep

crossing the trenches

After Pics

A second load of 12 tons of gravel was delivered after the we realized the first one was not enough. Kevin spread it all by hand, rake, and shovel. Using the truck to help compact it. It looks so much better. Needed to build it up and will need some more dirt on the one side to get up to the driveway now.