Vintage Bathroom Day 1 - demolition

This is so exciting. We're (Taylor is) remodeling the downstairs bathroom. Finally! He has 2 weeks off, so let's hope we get a lot done! Day 1 is demo, yikes! The plumbing is really bad, so Taylor had to rip up the floor to bust up the pipe and put a new one in. I can't wait until this part is over and the fun part begins...tile! We picked out some great stuff. Black & white hex for the floor, white subway tiles for the wall, and either black & white or black & silver damask wallpaper for the top of the wall. We're salvaging a vintage clawfoot tub and we were going to try to salvage the vintage pedestal sink we already had, but the plumbing is bad and the whole for the faucet is huge, so we might have to get new one with a vintage-look.

Here is the before bathroom.
Here is a picture of the floor we're getting!
Here's a picture of the sort of general look. The black & white floor with white walls and black & white wall paper on top. We'll hopefully paint the outside of the tub black and have silver feet!
Here's the style of sink I think I'll get. I also love the mirror!
OK. Here it is. No floor!!!

Here is the pipe for the toilet. More pipe stuff.
This floor joist fell when Taylor took up the last floor board. Freak!
More pipes.
and....more pipes.

Hallway!

Hi guys. I know it's been forever since I've updated this blog. SORRY! I'll try to be better. So, the hallway is the main thing we've accomplished. We repainted it a nice tan color called earthy cane and put up new light fixtures. Here's some pics. I also threw in a picture of the glass piece I created at Glassworks walk-in-workshop. I actually cut the glass myself. I'm so proud of it!

First, here is the hallway with the red color we painted when we first moved in.

Here's what it looked like when we first moved in.

Here's the random glass piece I did! :)

This is modern track lighting that is on the 2nd floor ceiling.

This is a modern glass art sconce white with black (it's hard to see in the picture) at the top of the stairs.

Here is the view from the back of the hallway.

Here is the view from the front door.

Backsplash Done!

The backsplash is finally finished! Check it out!!!!!

New Decoration

I totally copied Jennifer and Chuck and went out and found old tin ceiling tiles and hung them on our living room wall. Do you like?

Front Steps

Our front steps were crumbling and were dangerous. So, before winter comes we're going to redo them. Here are some before pictures and an in progress picture. The side walls have been poured. The steps should be done by Monday! (crossing our fingers!)

Tree Boxes

Thanks to my great neighboorhood friends, Mark & Bill, We now have tree boxes around the two trees in front of our house. They are so perfect! Now all I have to do is plant flowers in them. Any suggestions?

Backsplash layout

I know this is dorky, but I am so visual that we set out our tile for the back splash on the floor so I could see what the design would look like. Here's what we came up with. Hopefully, we'll get it up soon!