More pics of the renovation....
This is the downstairs bathroom. Nasty wallpaper, tub needed badly to be recaulked (leaked to the basement!), wall to the side of the shower was not tiled up high enough...had been getting wet for years and couldn't take much more, needed new sink. I liked the b&w, so wanted to try to work w/it.
First was down w/the wallpaper. Then OUT with the 60's medicine cabinent in the wall--yeah!

Then pop out a few tiles w/a grout cutter and screwdriver......ohhh, not so easy as they said at Home Depot. One here, then the one next to it cracks, and the one next to that, yikes!!! Help me! I wish I'd never started with the tile removal, total can of worms.

Textured and painted walls. The primer for the red was Mary Kay pink, the family was a little nervous. Done w/the tile removal, just grab some more b&w from HD.....oh, there are about 50 billion shades of white, not quite so easy. And, back in the 50's 4"tiles were a hair smaller....so a lot of filing down tiles BY HAND, cut my leg while removing and a sharp tile fell gashed my leg on the way down. It was nasty, gaping open, right on my shin. You could see the fat....who knew you have fat on your shin? No time for stitches though, just duct taped it up till I grabbed some butterfly bandaids from Walgreens later.

I'm a total rookie...no one ever told me to wear gloves if I'm going to use my fingers to wipe excess mortar and grout....YIKES. Truly putting sweat and blood into it now. Tile used to only go a little above the bottom black line, but is now to the ceiling. Huge improvement.

Found a cute little vanity on sale at Lowes, now just got to get out the old and install the new.

Look close at the new caulking job. Whew, the layers and layers of old caulk was not so easy to remove. Yeah, it's done now though, and leak free!!

More pics later.

Too funny, a couple of days ago I took the boys to the park during the girls piano lesson. Boys were doing train slide w/some other kids. Jacob said, "Sit by me guy-gick". "Guy-gick is how he pronounces Isaac's name. Isaac turned to the kids and said, "My names really Isaac, he just calls me that." I couldn't help busting up.

We had a little tragedy in the family a few days ago...woke up to a dead bunny in cage. Not sure why. Poor little Isaac, it was his pet of 2 weeks. He was doing such a good job of taking care of it too. The girls were all in tears before school. He was so long faced all day. Seems to be doing much better though. He has been reassured though that he can get another as soon as we can find one. Easy come, easy go I guess w/bunnies. Guess that's why they reproduce the way they do.

Well, back to the projects. Painted the play room yesterday, Adam installed recessed lights. Gave the newly stained hardwoods 1st coat of polyurethane this afternoon. Now back to demolition on Emma/Sarah's room.