Renovation Realities

When Byron and I bought our house 5 years ago, we knew that there were certain areas of the house that HAD to be remodeled above and beyond just the paint and accessories.  Unfortunately, there were some other things that needed to be done to the house (new furnace, new windows, new stucco, and the backyard just to name a few!) before we could embark on the fun of really remodeling the interior of the house. The time has come; we are now ready to remodel our master bathroom!!!   Woo Hoo, I am sooooooo excited!  We are gutting the entire bathroom.  Nothing that is in there now will be coming back into the new bathroom.  We have our new vanity already sitting in our dining room, and our claw foot air bath should be delivered around the 22nd of December.  We have been talking about what we want to do in the bathroom for a few years now, so now that we are finally at the point where we are purchasing the new tub, the tile, the vanity, it makes me soooo happy and excited!

Byron claims that the project will be finished in 8 - call it 14 to 20 weeks, since he will be doing most of the work himself.  I doubt it will take that long - let me rephrase that - I KNOW it won't take that long. I can handle upwards to 10 weeks, but too many more than that, and well....it won't be more than that!  :)

Here are some pictures of our bathroom before the demolition began...please don't pass judgement on how nasty it was before - was it our choice to have carpet in there - HELL NO, but we were young(er) and did everything we could to get into this house, even taking carpet in the bathroom!

I am going to try to keep updates on the progress of the bathroom reno.  Wish us luck - we're going to need it!