I'm not from here: February 2010

The upstairs bathroom was one of the areas of the house that wasn't in the online listing when we first found our Gun Club house (you knew that was the street name, right?) Maybe its because it was all pink...and carpeted...and has really low ceilings. It DOES have an awesome clawfoot tub in good condition though, so don't judge it too harshly.

As soon as we moved in, I painted the built in dresser thing and the vanity. Mostly because that's all I COULD do. I also removed the gorgeous floral curtain covering a sort of alcove/closet type thing. That was back in June. So in answer to your question, yes we had pink carpet in there for 7 months. It was really dirty and gross too. We just wore shoes all the time. I'm hardcore.

On Wednesday we got new floor, it was pretty exciting. Tuesday night Brian's friend came over and they moved the clawfoot out of the bathroom and down the hallway to a bedroom. That was interesting. The thing is crazy heavy. I read online that they way about 300 pounds, but I'm pretty sure it weighed a lot more than that. Plus, there's no good place to get a good grip on it. They ended up putting rugs on the hallway floor and using sliders to slide it into the bedroom. Worked great. They'll have to actually hold it to put it back on the plumbing stuff, but hopefully that will be ok since it doesn't involve carrying it very far. After the clawfoot tub got removed, we ripped up the pink carpet and found a bunch of yellow vinyl tiles which were either never actually stuck on the floor, or had lost all their glue over the years (they looked like they were from the 60's or 70's.) I just sort of kicked them into a pile and threw them away. If only everything in this house was that easy.

On Wednesday I went to my early class without taking a shower, because I have a break after my first class. I came home and the water was off, because the floor guys hit a pipe and water poured all over the breakfast nook area (aka wood stove room.) AWESOME. Everything appears to be ok now, and they fixed it and finished the floor. Our old contractors would have let the water run for a couple hours and then gone home.

Last night I painted the whole room and put up new towel hooks, a toilet paper holder and a hand towel holder. The tub isn't in yet, and we need to do the baseboard this weekend. We also found out that the closet area is about 1 inch too short for bifold doors. We doctored our bifold doors in our condo because we had the same problem, and that didn't go over very well. I didn't really like how the doors fell of the track every time I closed them. I found an online tutorial on how to make your own bifold doors, so I think we'll try that.

Here are some befores of the gorgeous pink bathroom. Check out the picture of the toilet....do you see the tape on it? Before we moved in, the house had been winterized, which meant that the water was off and the toilets were taped up and the sinks were covered up. The first night we were in the house I opened that toilet. If our house is haunted, all the evil was in that toilet. I don't know what was in there...but it was the scariest thing I've ever seen. We got new toilets the next day. Anyways, on with the pictures!

And now what you've all been waiting for....the afters (or I guess the "durings" since its not totally done yet.)

Here's a pic of Maggie cuz she's cute...