Bathroom Remodel Update

This is a reminder of what we started out with.

You'll have to click to enlarge these first couple of pictures if you want a good idea of what we started planning.  This was my favorite part (and about the only part I was physically involved in): scribbling on the walls general dimensions and new placements.  Surprisingly fun, knowing the whole thing was about to be gutted anyway. :)

One of the strangest things ever, when Aaron got the drywall down, was finding that the back wall had been framed and insulated sideward.  Sideward.  We have no idea why, and it helps to explain a bit of why the bathroom was never truly warm, being so terribly insulated.  The blue and white stick-on tiles you see in the picture below were our temporary fix when we tore out the carpet months ago.

I'm really sorry I don't have a better picture of this, but this is the outdoor view of the vent that Aaron wired in.  He used the space where the window used to be and put the fan there.  The window was totally ineffective anyway, being thin and badly caulked and we had it stuffed with blankets to keep the room warm, so it wasn't a light source, either. 

You have to use some amazing imagination skills here, because I was a total dunce of a wife and didn't take pictures.  Aaron rented a jackhammer and took it to the floor, so there, in the back left corner, was a good 3x3 hole.  He put in new plumbing so that both the tub and toilet could drain AND moved the toilet piping over a mere 14 inches, just so I could have this shower. :)  He put in fresh plumbing to the new shower and sink locations, rewired the electrical so I could have the light switch where I wanted it, the fan where it needed to be, and a new pretty light over the sink.  After much deliberation, we decided (yep, another part I was actually involved in) to just take out the heater and see if we need an electric one later.  Re-venting was going to be really difficult and this is a tiny room next to a larger one with a heater, so it probably won't be a big deal.  Aaron then put in the new shower base and surround, cutting holes in all the right places for a perfect shower.  I love that he got a shower base with a seat; that'll be so useful my first couple of weeks home from the hospital, not to mention relaxing later on.  He got the special mold-resistant drywall and did his best dry-walling job yet in here. 

Today, Aaron painted the room this lovely shade of gray.  The vision is with white fixtures, a darker gray tile, and a few lime-toned accents, this will be a sweet, sophisticated little washroom! 

Tomorrow Aaron will be painting the ceiling, figuring out floor tile, and hopefully laying the tile.  Wednesday will get the tile around the shower and the baseboard tile.  Thursday gets to be grout.  Friday gets all fixtures installed - toilet, sink, shower fixtures, door put back on and hopefully some pretty things.

Saturday, by all counts, should have us back in our own room, using one sweet heck-of-a bathroom!  When it's all really done, I promise to take some better pictures of 'finished product'.