Almost Fully Functional Bath

Months in the making, our full bath at Fuller is almost fully functional. The shower, tub, and toilet are all usable but the aesthetics and the sink are lacking. We have discovered the joys of mudding drywall (and decided that we would hang but hopefully hire out to mud the drywall at Logan...). We have pictures of the progress. We've planned our outlets and switches, choose our lighting (mostly recessed), and snaked electrical wires. Also, we just got our new window installed today! So it's starting to come together. We need to finish up electrical, paint, and install the sink. Soon, we'll repaint the built-in storage, choose and put in crown molding and trim, and (in the long run) obtain our glass shower doors. It's looking better and better. How encouraging!

It's taking forever, I realize, but can we please reflect on what the bathroom used to look like?

Full Bath Inspiration

Someone is coming to finish the shower floor this weekend and then Eric & will tile that puppy so we can have a shower! I've been pretty into Numbers and whipped up this "inspiration spread" so everyone can share my vision: Hm. It copied strange. I'll work on that next time.

Full bath

Well, we see the makings of our bathroom of our dreams. Though it's taking a little longer than we thought/ hoped, it will definitely be worth the wait. Finally. A photo posted of our full bath in progress. It's our "pottery barn" bath . Good thing its so pretty & I know that It will be worth the wait otherwise I'd be more flustered at the time situation. Also, I ordered faucets yesterday. Beautiful faucets at 40% off. Unfortunately, they are so expensive that even 40% is outrageous. Owning a home/ having expensive taste is not going to be good for us!

Eric and I finally had a day off to just clean the house last week before our thanksgiving guests arrives. It looks like a real house now! We even have the guest room almost functional (except for the minor detail of a mattress...). So it's been really exciting to see our house become a little more home-like.

Also, our furnace has been turning off more frequently. It's a good thing we were financially and mentally prepared to have another furnace installed otherwise we might be freaking out. What we weren't prepared for was the kitchen sink/drain leaking. We have yet to address that. Ugh.

Sorry, Logan. You're on hold again... I feel like this may be a reoccurring statement :/

Bathroom!

Fuller is a hot mess right now because our guest room (the lower floor bedroom) is full of bath fixtures (a tub, a sink vanity, and a toilet) and there is tiling equipment everywhere else. We have the roughed in plumbing (Rearranging the whole room's fixture), previous walls and fixtures removed, and the framing for our shower/drop in tub built thus far. I am so excited though because in a few days we will have a gorgeous tiled bathroom. Though we have been getting exceptional prices for labor, we have expensive taste (go figure) and have been choosing things based on (a) what we'll really like and (b) resale value. We are decorating this house on a different (and more fun) strategy than Logan.

I am so distracted at home because I only think about cleaning, rearranging, and fixing up Fuller. After the two bathrooms are near completion, we have to be patient because we can't have two project houses. We need to focus on Logan so we can complete it and THEN devote our time to Fuller. As far as Logan is concerned, it has taken a backseat to this bathroom project. Everything is finally cleared out of the yard (so it doesn't look quite so trashy), but the inside still has debris that needs to be removed before framing/furnace can be started. Ugh. I am already ready to sell this project house and concentrate on Fuller!! Graduation is a month away- I can't wait until we can devote extensive time to Logan St so that we can finish it up and my updates aren't so redundant.

Back on track!

Logan street status: Our trees are getting trimmed tomorrow! We are getting a cabinet estimate too! But it's back to the drawing board for the structural engineering stuff. Augh, that house can be such a pain! But at least little things are getting done. We can't get other things done (like the roof, furnace, plumbing, electrical, drywall) until that is taken care of.

The good news is that we are really excited about 39 Fuller. Like I previously said, we are going to fix up the bathrooms and then focus all the funds on Logan. But at least we will have beautiful bathrooms. We are having Jason do our tile just like the picture (!!). So we'll have a tiled in shower and a garden bath. Yay. Okay, it's time to hurry up and close on this house.

Google street view: 49 Fuller St SE