Monday, April 20, 2009

The Bathroom Mini Makeover

OK so some of you may know and some of you have even seen it, but our bathroom is something that well just makes you want to shut the door on it. Fernando and I (and others) have worked very hard throughout the upstairs of our home. Between painting, flooring and kitchen cabinets everything is looking updated and refreshed. Except for the dreaded bathroom. Yes the sore thumb to my beautiful upstairs. I have always been a little embarrassed of the bathroom and usually always caution those who would visit to please keep in mind the house is a work in progress. I know most people could careless, but for me it just bothered me. So I decided to take control of the situation. We don't have much $$ to put into the bathroom so it will have to be strictly cosmetic and hopefully just a little paint and things will finish it up nicely.

So I started looking around to see what I could find. I knew we still had some paint from the rest of the house so of course I will just use what I have, even though I know this is not the color that I want for my remodeled bathroom this will have to do for the mini makeover. So I took it upon myself to start on this aspect. What next? The cabinets. OK the cabinets are a very outdated wood color. OK the reason for description of wood color is because they are not actually wood. They are plastic (brought to me by the attention of Donette). Plastic cabinets, yes I know crazy. Anyway so something had to be done about this so I bought some spray paint and went to town, fumes and all. With a few glitches along the way they turned out OK.

Now the next project or eye sore is the sink. I would have to say that the sink is 30 years old along with the faucets, hard water and pipes. So what do you do in this case. Yeah I tried cleaning it with everything and anything, but it was not coming clean. So I decided to just take a chance and see what I could find on KSL. I mean a new sink was going to cost me $30 and then a faucet another $20 or so, and well its hard to justify that type of money when I know in a year or two we will be ripping the entire thing out to really remodel it. Well luck was on my side and I found a nice porcelain sink along with the faucet for $25. It was great so I pulled out the old one did a little plumbing underneath. Yes i would say the pipes underneath were probably 30 years old too. I went ahead and changed the drain pipes and put on new on/off valves and now everything is like new. Yes ladies I did this myself (ok lets give some credit to Fernando, one of the old pipes was rusted on so I did have him get that loose for me) other then that I did everything else. (Thanks dad for letting me watch all those years at home.)

So lets see now we have a fresh coat of paint a new sink, I removed the old mirror with the medicine cabinet underneath and now the flooring. The flooring is outdated, white and shows every little hair. So I went over to Lowes and found some peel and stick tiles and put them down. Wow what a change that did for the bathroom. Well I have done a few other things, but not quite done yet. I had to order a couple of accessories and am expecting to see those in the mail later this week. So as soon as it is all done I will post the finish project. I will have to tally everything together and let you know the final cost. But i have gone ahead and included some of the before pictures and will post the final pics in the next week or so. Sorry to keep you hanging.



Birthday come and gone, but this is what is left.

So my birthday was in February and being as we are in April now it has definitely come and gone. However as I have said before I have been a little slow to update. So here is a little insight to my birthday.

Fernando spoiled me and bought me the desk and shelves I have wanted for my sewing/craft/computer room. I fell in love with this setup after a trip to Ikea about a year ago, but new I would have to wait before it would make it to the top of the list of things to buy. So what better opportunity then to ask for it for my birthday. So with that being said and the hints that were made (basically me emailing the links to Fernando) he said it was mine for my birthday.

Yipppeee I was so excited I finally fill like I can start to organize things. So I have gone ahead and included some pics of putting the desk together, as soon as I finish organizing and sorting through all my stuff I will post pics of the room all put together.


Fernando working hard putting together the puzzle. I apologize for the spots my lens needed to be cleaned.



The finish product. Now its time to organize.

Time to catch up...

Well it has been a while since I have posted anything, and well it is about time I catch up on life.

So lets start off with how great of a wife I am. No brag just fact. I mean what wife would allow for 15-20 men to setup their computers in her house and play pc games in to the wee hours of the morning? Well yes that is me. Here is the proof.

Please do keep in mind one of the reasons Fernando agreed to this house was because it had a basement. One of the reasons I agreed to the "nerd fest" was because we have the basement.