TERRIBLE DECISIONS: Almost there

Substantial progress in the last couple of days:

A good look at the flooring, which is completely installed, and the wall color, which is a light grey. I love how this turned out. Love it.

This is the shower, which gets tiled tomorrow, and the fan/lighting sconce overhead. Nice and simple.

The niche and the bench. We’re using a different shelf than the one that’s sitting in there; it’s got holes in it for drainage and is considerably thinner.

The hardwood in the bedroom is a freaking mess, but I love that the transition pieces match the flooring. I don’t know if I should have expected this but I love it as a little detail.

And the first parts of the tile are in! This literally just happened; it was the last of the work for today as this needs to set before they can tile the rest of the shower tomorrow. The wall tiles will be a lot bigger, with an accent stripe going underneath all the shower hardware and more accent tile inside the niche. The grout here will be black; we were going to go with black everywhere but the tile guy thinks it has a good chance of bleeding into the accent tile, which is more the color of the floor, so we might go with white there.

The rest of the shower gets tiled tomorrow, and then all that’s left is trim, the toilet and bidet, the vanity, the closet, the hangers and shelving, grout, and finishing up the last details on the electric. Oh, and the shower door. That’s kind of important. I think they’re planning on working through the weekend, so we should be done Tuesday or Wednesday. I cannot wait to see what the shower looks like.

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: Crop THIS shit, goddammit

Still need to do some cleaning and put the furniture back, obviously, but I believe a BOOM! may be in order here.

BOOM!

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: In which I carefully crop photos

Done!

… AS FAR AS YOU KNOW.

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: bluuuuuue

Underlayment is down.  Now for the actual floor.

STAGE ONE COMPLETE 

A bit of luck– as we guessed, there’s a sizeable gap under the baseboards now that the carpet is out, so we don’t need to pull them.  Lunch break, then underlayment, which should be fast.

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: Defloorification and Refloorifying edition

Hello, dining room table!  I forgot what you looked like, what with keeping you under a tablecloth for five years.  You’re pretty nice!  Enjoy the living room; you’re going to live in there today.

One-day job, guys.  Say it with me.  ONE DAY JOB.  IMG_4755.JPG

Guess what I’ll be doing tomorrow

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No, not taking a nap.  That was today.  That’s what Thursdays are for lately.  No, tomorrow I rip my dining room to shreds and put down new flooring.  We’re gonna hope it goes well, because I sort of need for my dining room to have a floor.  That’s a thing that’s important to me.

Updates, obviously, coming as it happens.

(After the floor, there will be sushi, and then Luke Cage.  If everything goes right, it’ll be a really good day.)

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: The end is nigh

We’ve laid every tile we can lay without standing on any of them.  I’d prefer to have the job done today, but not at the expense of doing it right.

Almost there, kids. 

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