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Sally PB said:
We are remodeling our bathroom. The tub and sink are from the original build of the house, back in 1979/80. I've commented on the skills and lack thereof of the builder many times. The bathroom showcases some of them.

For reference, the ceiling of the downstairs is the floor of the upstairs. There is no dead space between. It's tongue and groove pine, and the boards are substantial. Ok, nice wood. Then he glued padding on the floor and put in uhhhh-gleeeee carpet. We ripped that out, sanded and poly'd the floor. It looks nicely country, as it was nailed down so you can see the nails, ie, not through the tongue, just straight through the plank. :rolleyes:

He stained the ceiling so that it matched the walls. Again, ok. But he didn't poly it, and being the dampest room in the house, with NO VENT FAN, the ceiling was stained with mildew. Can't wash it off. It would have be to sanded off.

Hubby put in a dropped ceiling (drywall) and a vent fan over the tub. We had to add a switch to run the fan, and hubby wasn't comfortable tapping into an existing line for the switch, so we hired that done.

Now we have to get the shower walls from Menards. Delivery would have required a semi ($$$), and it wouldn't have been able to get to house. So hubby built a flat bed frame to put on our trailer for about $60, and we'll have plenty of use for that past this project.

(Like bringing home pallets, dear?)

Here are some pictures.
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Here's the old sink. See the horizontal tongue and groove on the wall? The piece at the back is over the piece on the left at the corner.
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And then the piece on the right is over the piece on the back. So when the shower started to drip, there was no way to access the plumbing without taking down all three walls, or cutting the wood and making a mess. That's right, no access to the plumbing for the tub. The sink itself sat on top of the tongue and groove, so no way to update that either, without taking down the walls.

This is the vanity cabinet the builder made. The design hubby has will be much nicer.
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Your sink top looks a lot like mine. We replaced the faucet assembly with a one handle washerless type. I love it.
 
Sally PB said:
A really pretty sink, and it doesn't drip.:) Oooo! A shiny new switch!
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A cubby for some of the sink stuff. There will be one on the other side too. It's just sitting there right now; hubby needs to take it out to poly before screwing it into the wall. And a nice GFCI outlet.
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The existing plumbing. Hubby thinks he can handle doing the new stuff with Pex.

I'm really hoping we're done with all this before hubby goes to Colorado next month.:fl
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What the blue blazes is that pretzel of pipes?!
 
I never took a picture of the mildewed mess that was the ceiling. It was embarrassingly gross. We bought a gallon of Kilz primer for the drywall, and we painted the ceiling to hide the mildew. It also brightened the room considerably.

One thing about this house is... it's dark inside. The walls are all tongue and groove wood, and very pretty. But dark. The living room is a mid-range tone, but the bathroom and bedroom are cedar, and it's much darker.

The builder built the house next door, and the neighbor got tired of how dark it was and painted it all white. I can see why she did it, but painting all that beautiful wood grain... :hit
 
Yesterday we went to the Michigan Irish Music Festival. It's a 4 day event (Th-Sun) and hubby goes all four days. Our favorite band, Crossbow, wasn't there this year. Another favorite, Ironwood, was there and did not disappoint.

I have a new band I like, On The Lash. Young (dang, they ALL look so young now!), talented, and writing original stuff. The guy who does a lot of the writing looked like a very young Sean Penn.

Today I went to the Fallasburg Fall Festival. Hubby went back to MIMF, but I love going to Fallasburg, and unfortunately they are always the same weekend.

I was hoping to find a belt. Hand tooled leather made by someone craftsperson. I'd be happy to pay good money for one. But nobody had belts. Two leather goods booths, zero belts.

We had thought about going to the Ann Arbor Art Fair last June, but didn't. It would be a really long day for Freya, as it's about 3 hours each way. And the art fair is huge. I'm sorry we didn't go, because maybe I would have found one.

So I'm looking online. On the off chance anyone knows of someone who makes and sell belts... please post a link. I've just started looking.
 
Well, my neighbor who had a heart attack last December is back in the hospital again. Apparently she fainted last night while in the kitchen, and fell. She texted me from the hospital this morning and said they have her on a couple of meds to raise her BP.

Her attitude is amazing. She knows she probably doesn't have a lot of time left, but she is grateful for every day.

This Saturday is supposed to be the s'mores party she wanted to have a year ago, to welcome the new people, and just have a good time. It didn't happen, unfortunately. She tried for 2 weeks ago, and the weather was crappy. Last week, too many people were going to be gone.

I'm really hoping she is home and we can all get together. She is the kind of person who organizes these things, and I think she enjoys it. She won't need to do a thing -- the rest of us will see to that!
 

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