Food for Thought


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It is better to trust and be disappointed once in awhile than to distrust and be miserable all of the time.

-Abraham Lincoln

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Another One to Cross Off the 'Honey Do' List

So you may remember that on New Years Day, Clint and I (along with my mom and dad) started the daunting process of remodeling our tiny little master bath. Well it is finally finished! Hooray! Only 7 months later! I thought everyone would like to see the before-and-after shots:



BEFORE...





AFTER!





BEFORE...



AFTER!




Sorry...I don't have a before shot for this...but this is a nice view of the floor tile, trim, and cool toilet paper stand and double towel bar!




Also, since I named part of this bathroom project the "Niche from Hell" I figured it would be nice to show the evolution of the once old, ugly medicine cabinet to a pretty nice lookin' decorative niche! Most of the credit for this part of the bathroom goes to my dad who took the mudding of the niche to a whole new level! This sounds lame but working with mud/compound like this is really an art!

It looks like such a harmless little project here...how naive I was...




Then came the task of creating the arch...



Next, we had to secure the arch and build the front facade...a lot harder than I thought it would be...





Then we had to mud the niche. I did a little bit of this but I got too impatient. It's a lot of mudding and sanding, mudding and sanding! I finally needed my dad to come over to finish it!




And here is the final result!



We must thank everyone who helped us complete this project:


My dad David, my mom Lisa, Clint's dad Paul, Cam, Loren, Hector (who tiled our tub), and all the nice people at Lowe's! We couldn't have done it without you!



Now...on to the next bathroom?...

3 comments:

Jon and Briana said...

Awesome! it looks amazing now we need to come and see it in person! I love the niche!! HP in 5 days!!!

Missy said...

Wow, that looks great! What a lot of hard work, but the end result looks like it was worth it!

Carson said...

Look at you go, 7 months in the making looks like it was all worth the wait! It looks so great you are so talented the both of you.