Week in Review

We're continuing to plod along at the house.  This week, we focused on three main projects.  We've been avoiding the shower and floorboard projects for awhile now, but this week we attacked!  Here are the pics:

FINISHING TOUCHES:

Mirrors, trim, towel bars, door handles...all that good stuff. 

The master bathroom and second full bath are the two rooms that are the closest to finished.

MASTER SHOWER:

On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, I tiled the shower ceiling and door frame.

Today we tackled the walls.  Let's just say that, when tiling, gravity is not your friend.  We had to get creative in setting the first row, but it got better from there.  We made our own shampoo shelves by cutting two tiles into triangles and mortaring them together.  Ours were waaaay cheaper than buying shelves, plus they match perfectly. 

I am not a neat tiler.  Who needs rags when you've got jeans on? 

This was only about half-way through the day...they got much worse... : )

And about 10 hours later, the walls were finished!!  We hope all those tiles are still in place tomorrow...and ten years from now.  This is one thing I don't want to have to redo!!  It was a lot of work!

FLOORBOARD REPLACEMENT:

My dad's been working on replacing the floorboards in the entry way so we can re-tile.  You may remember that we had to tear up the old tile because we're changing out the stair railing and front door, and when we tore up the old tile, the floorboards underneath were in rough shape.  Now that the floorboards are replaced, those projects can move ahead!