The Joys of Finishing Projects

Ha! Did you think this was a post about finishing the bathroom because it's about damn time?! Well you would be wrong. The bathroom is very much on hold as we're having people come out to quote our shower doors. Thing is the quotes we're getting are way more than we would prefer to shell out, should have been expected, so we're evaluating options right now.

But we did wrap up an unfinished project this past weekend! Remember our shed we revamped? After finishing all the construction, we were left with finishing the ceiling tiles. Since the bathroom has taken priority the last couple of months we never finished the entire shed project. Honestly it's pretty typical with how we do things around here, I mean we renovated our kitchen 2 years ago but still haven't installed the crown molding or quarter round about the base of the cabinets! Oh well, we'll get to it. At least that's what we tell ourselves when we don't feel like doing it, hence it still not finished :o)

So now that the bathroom isn't a priority at this time, we got to the shed! It really does feel good to completely finish a job. I think we're getting the ball rollin' with this one!

Almost done...

Completely done!

 I did kind of work on the bathroom, well more like the mess that we've created with the bathroom renovation. We've wrapped up a majority of the project so a lot of the materials and tools we no longer need upstairs. So after about an hour of working up and down our itty bitty stairs, it's cleaned! Seriously, after I clean anything I ask myself why I don't do it more often or sooner. Some things I just don't understand about myself. It's gotten me excited though about once this whole thing is done and we have all our spaces back in order. Until then, I will definitely take the small piles tucked away.

Seriously don't know how we worked in such a mess

Yay for cleaning!

Honestly, how did we ever find anything?!               Glorious open path to now walk through  

Little bit left to do

Only Turn 30 Once!

This past Saturday I got a year older and have made the leap into the 30's! It was a more low key birthday, especially considering it was a miserably dreary day. Usually on those type of days I'd wrap up in blankets and watch movies all day, but considering we planned to go to a drive-in theater that night I held back my urge to be extremely lazy and just dilly dallied around the house.

There were definitely two highlights. The first being my birthday cake that David made. I requested chocolate on chocolate and he did both the cake and icing from scratch! The crazy part too was that I think he did it all, assembly too, in probably 2 hours. Which if you've ever made a layered cake and icing from scratch you know that is working quick. He also decorated it with my piping tips! I never figured he paid attention when I've made and decorated cakes, but he proved me wrong. And the best part wasn't how good it looked, but it tasted amazing!!! The words "this is the best cake I've ever tasted" definitely came out of my mouth that day. Sooooo deeeliciousssss!!!

The other highlight was the drive-in movie. Like I said it was a dreary day and rained all through the evening and night. We were able to configure the CRV to make a makeshift bed. We backed the car up to the screen and opened the back window so we had a clear view of the movies but still stayed dry. It couldn't have worked out any better.

Death to Subway Tiles!

Tiling done!! Well... more like 98% done since we still have 2 shelves and some tiny pieces to install, but the overwhelming, never ending walls are completed! I also added pictures of the finished wall in our bedroom and the wall where the light switch is when you first walk into the room (those have been finished for awhile now I just haven't updated them on the blog). 

Final items left on the list are grout shower tiles, install shower faucets and spouts, stain and install trim, make transition piece from carpet to tile, shower doors (will need to be custom built), and build a couple of shelves for the cubby whole. That will complete the actual bathroom, we still have the drywall to finish in the loft as well (just waiting to get the truck up and running to pick up the sheets).

BOOM! So many tiles

Can't wait to see how it looks once it's grouted

I used a paint brush to try and blend the texture from the new to the existing walls

The concept of entering the room makes so much more sense this way

I love adding the final finishing touches