.....and closer yet....

Last week, Jessica worked on grouting the bathroom; this took a couple days what with other things interfering, like going to work. Once the weekend got here, we managed to get a few more things done in the bathroom. We had to scrape grout from the edges of the tiles to make the grout lines cleaner and more distinct, and that was extremely difficult and exhausting. We finally discovered that green brillo pads work great! After working late into Friday night (read: 1:00 a.m.), Saturday consisted of sealing the grout, waiting for it to dry so we could walk on it, and then installing a few more pieces.

At this point (Monday night), all we have left is to caulk various places in the bathroom, install the shower curtain rod, and install the remaining 2 pieces of baseboard molding and one side of the door molding. While David works on those items, Jessica has been working on clearing out the materials and tools from the bedroom so that we can move back in ASAP. We are thrilled to be SO CLOSE to the end!!

Nice new mirrors are installed.

A beautiful tiled backsplash waiting for grout.

The vanity doors are now finished with their own handles.

Grout haze covers the tile as Jessica wraps up a second day of grouting (hence the two-toned grout; dark=still wet).

Ooh - shiny, cleaned, scrubbed, sealed tile! All that hard work definitely paid off!

David getting ready to install the toilet.

Same toilet as before, but with a new lever that matches the brushed nickel hardware in the rest of the room.

Getting closer...

We are getting SO CLOSE to being done with our bathroom remodel! This weekend consisted of more progress, pictured below. We're hoping to be done with by Wednesday or Thursday of THIS WEEK! :-O How exciting! We looked through past pictures and realized that we moved from our bedroom into the 2nd bedroom at the beginning of April. That's 7 months of hard labor - it's about time we wrapped up this project. If we finish the bathroom by the middle of the week, we'll be able to clean up and move back into our bedroom Friday and then enjoy Saturday doing whatever we want. It's been quite a while since we've had a free weekend like that.

Jessica installed her custom-made doors and drawers (with handles) to the vanities! We just need to add the false front.

Adding the last remaining tiles to the shower and the curb...!

One more to go.

The shower and bathroom floor are FINISHED with tile! We just need to grout and seal them.

David is armed and ready to bore a giant hole in the counter for the sink drain.

....Don't mess up.....!!

Nicely executed.

Jessica put up the towel bar and rings.

She also added the face plates to the outlets and light switches.

Hooky

Today we played 'hooky' from work and got a lot of progress done on the bathroom. Since we're traveling in just a couple weeks, we wanted to really crank out some of the work. We still had tile to cut, also, and today is the last non-rainy day in the forecast for a while, so we wanted to take advantage of it. We woke up early and went to Home Depot and Lowe's to buy lights, mirrors, a little more tile, a curtain rod, and detail items (fun fact of the day: Home Depot will take Lowe's coupons!). We think we've finally bought the last few supplies we'll need to finish the project - what a feeling of relief!

So, without further ado....

Jessica cut a bunch of tiles on Tuesday before work.

David cut the remaining bunch of tiles today instead of work. :-) No more tiles left to cut!!

Installing the new pocket door.

Ooh, new light fixtures!

Installing a couple vanity doors.

Look at the beautiful lights and new counter top! There's a matching set across the room (not pictured).

Pretty! It's much brighter in real life.