Such is life in the summer.
But I'm posting to show you two befores and two afters, just for the heck of it. A sort of What I Did This Summer prequel (heck, if Star Wars can do it, I can do it).
First, the new downstairs bathroom. We left this room out of the renovation equation when we moved here because it wasn't too bad, but over the past 4 years things seemed to deteriorate. It didn't help when one neighbour laughed heartily while telling us how one of the previous owners' kids had dumped a 50lb sack of concrete INTO THE TOILET. Methinks it was the same kid who had a black bedroom and charred one of the ceiling beams with his lighter...
Anyhow, this summer one of MY kids turned into A Showering
Into this...
It wasn't particularly hard, but it took a while and let me just say that it's a jolly good thing there are stores that rent jackhammers and stores that sell porcelain tile cutting drill bits.
Now all we have to do is keep the Showering
Next, the Lemon Arbor. Such are the wonders of the summer season that even though we've had the worst summer on record (I don't have any stats for you, only the opinion of every single person in town, which I think is far more official) there has been a lot of beautiful green action going on around here. Not a lot of ripened action, per se, (except the lemons, which have been prolific enough for me to make marmalade) but a lot of green action.
5 comments:
Lovely remodel! You have good taste, Sheila.
Love the mosaic tile detail on that shower. Just what I want to do on my downstairs shower. Fun, isn't it?
So glad you're back. Did you go "up island?"
Ooo, pretty! Your garden looks amazing as well!
Thanks Suji - you're terrible for my ego, you do realize that? Now I'm going to be telling Richard that he has to listen to me because I have good taste, lol.
Hmm, wait a minute. I already DO that...
Isn't that mosaic tile cool, Mrs D? And to think that I placed it with my very own hands. We even found a store that colour matches the grout (I would have laughed at myself for saying this 5 years ago).
We divide the tasks up thusly: Sheila: all creative decisions, painting, & tiling/ Richard: listening politely to Sheila, hard stuff & everything else.
We were up island! You need to come visit!
Thanks, Samantha! I was just reading about your own decorating adventures - NICE! Love the colours you chose. Don't love that you were so close to here and didn't come to see me, sob.
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