Posts Tagged ‘painting’

Upstairs bathroom completed!

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

This past weekend Adam went out to the playa for a weekend of camping and seeing many of our friends from Burningman.  I wasn’t feeling too hot so I stayed in and painted the bathroom.  Poor Adam returned from his camping trip covered in dust…with our main bathroom (the only one with a shower) out of commission!

This room presented some challenges when picking colors.  We’ve got three separate sets of tile in the room.  The floor is mainly white with black accents, the countertop is off white with black flecks, and the tub tile is a subtle blue/grey marbled pattern.  Half of the accents in the room are gold (towel racks, light fixture, cabinet hardware) and the other are silver (shower door, etc.)  After going back and forth we desided on a vivid turquoise and black.  It isn’t something we would have picked without the tile being the way it is – we wanted to pull the patterns out and make them visable rather than looking like faded dirt.  It turns out the blue is amazing!  It is now my favorite color in the house!

Before:

After! Get ready for the blue!

Day 8

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Woke up to eager Adam at door. Tried to put pillow over head and ignore him. Katie betrayed me by letting him in. Drug out of bed. Hid back in bed. Drug out of bed again. Went to our amazing house. Scowled at amount of work to do. Would have hid back in bed but now far away. Settled for ripping out the pantry instead.

Went to Lowes. Took three hours. Bought the store. Ran late for meeting electrician. Electrician had good news for us – our new line can be brought in from a powerpole rather than underground. Much cheaper. Ate tacos. Lunch (and breakfast) was at 3pm. Promise each other to plan better in future. Went back to Lowes to pick up forgotten primer. Did not buy store. Katie showed up for beers and encouragement. Continued destroying pantry. After pantry mostly destroyed (load bearing beam removal remaining) Adam tried to fix sink. Mostly failed. I painted trim. In the bathroom I’ve been working on for four days. Maybe I’ll finish tomorrow. That’s what I said yesterday. Threw wood from pantry off balcony into backyard. Katie took pictures.

Tried to go to dinner at 11pm. Places closed. Fell asleep in car. Adam took me home. Microwave food, pet kitten, fail to fix the comment ability on the blog. Now updating. Think I’m typing while sleeping. Adam’s still at the house tearing up carpet. He also dreams of installing a plug in the fridge’s new home tonight, but I think the odds of him getting that done are about even with the odds I’ll ever finish the bathroom.

Tomorrow we finish turning the pantry into a home for our fridge (seriously – who thinks just leaving the fridge in the middle of kitchen is an acceptable place for it? The hell?) and clean and primer the next room. This assumes I finish the bathroom in the morning. It only needs one more coat of trim, touch up paint, and a new faucet installed. I’m hopeful. It’ll be our first completed room!

Best part of the day? Finding out they make electrical outlits and light switches in black. Awesome.