Sprucing Up the Bathroom and a Few Other Projects

We had great intentions of doing a ton outside this weekend, but I think we fell short in that department.  We did get rid of a ton of random yard trash we inherited with the house at the city SCRUB even this weekend, so that was nice.  We have some semblance of a garage that we might be able to bring some order to now.  We also got a couple of railroad ties dug up and the cement slab broken up outside our side door.  We are going to pave that whole area in along with the walkway from the gate to the deck with the same kind of stone, so the cement was just breaking up our flow.  Plus, now we can use all the cement at the rock base for a walkway, so we are pretty happy about not having to buy a ton of rock for that project.  Yay for recycling!  Here is the mess we have going on right now though…

   

While Andrew was out killing the cement slab with a sledge hammer, I was inside the peacefulness of our bathroom.  I decided the white was too much, I couldn’t take it and the sterile hospital environment had to go.

Here is the before...

Here is the after....

You might also notice that the trim on the window looks a little different.  Well, right now it looks like poo, but we are working on it friends.  I thought it would be a great idea to strip the paint off and expose the beautiful wood.  Of course, this is easier said than done.  Now, I have done a lot of reading about stripping paint from wood and from what I gathered, this was going to be a very noxious process.  Not wanting to exfixiate my entire family including myself, my oh so smart husband found a citrus scented stripper.  Granted, after a while the smell of oranges got to be a bit much, but it was better than chemical smell any day of the week.  We are down to the point when were need to hand sand it and then seal it up again.  At the end of the day Andrew said “you know if the wood is too bad, we may just have to replace it.” To this comment, he received an evil glare accompanied by me insisting there is no way I was going through all that effort to turn around and replace the wood, so we would just have to make it work.  I will have to do an updated post when we get that little project finished. 

For now, that is the update I have for you all.  Tonight, we get to work on matching up the switches in our circuit box to what they actually turn on and off because they aren’t labled correctly.  This should be a fun project!  Andrew will also be putting up new lights on the wall in the bathroom, so I will post a picture when those are done, they are going to look lovely!