Bathroom/Laundry Remodel

Last February we started remodeling our bathroom and laundry room.  We didn't do everything since we do want to sell the house and really didn't want to put that much money in it.  If we planned to stay here forever we would have done a lot more (mainly new bathtub!).  I'd been meaning to blog this forever and just never got around to it.... All pics are from my iphone so not the best quality but you get what's happening.

 

This was the "wall" between the bathroom and laundry room. On the right is the bathroom door with robes on it. The part with the mirror slides to the left and the part on the left slides to the right.  Nice, huh? The best part- it's all just plywood :/ (Don't ask me why we didn't fix this years ago...)   The other side of the bathroom   Close-up of the awful plastic tile.  We painted the top pink to try and go with the tile.  It worked, I liked the pink for the most part, it didnt look as bad in real life.   The left picture is with the mirror door open and the view into the laundry room. Middle pic is the view from the kitchen (that's the back door). The pic on the rightIs the view back into the bathroom.  The laundry room had a cabinet like the bathroom- they were one piece built together.  I forgot a pic of the ceiling here- we had a leak from a big storm.  That's what started this whole thing and we had to have some roof work done too.     My belly! :) (This was last February so I was like 23 weeks or so)   There was a small leak above the shower too, plus those awesome drop ceilings!   Mike taking out the built in cabinet- it was all pieced together with plywood too.  Picture on the right is the view from the bathroom after the whole "wall" was down.   The wall next to the bathroom door, we discovered it used to be an outside wall! (Also, ewww ugly fake brick outside??)     We really liked having the easy access to the laundry room so we decided to do a pocket door instead of just a wall.  This was the part of the remodel where we had to wait for other people to be able to help us so we lived with that half a wall/door for several weeks.  Mike had started to take down some of the ceiling tiles too so he could see what we were dealing with up there.  He did this above the shower too.  I hated taking showers during that time, I kept thinking a mouse would come from the attic through the installation!     Mike had some friends come help with the drywall (apparently a weak pregnant woman isn't very much help!) and they installed a fan with the new light since there wasn't a fan in there. mp;current=iPhone3100_zps64ba1a90.jpg" target="_blank">
Laundry room- drywall ceiling Bathroom- new light and drywall ceiling Drywall next to the pocket door  

We went with a neutral color and did it on both the plastic tile and the wall

  All the trim and moulding got painted white So much better!! I got a new shower curtain (I did LOVE my old one though) white towels and rug (not a good idea with little boys btw). We thought about replacing the vanity but it was too pricey and it really didn't look bad once the rest was updated.   

Since we lost a lot of storage with this remodel Mike built this shelp for me! (plans on ana-white.com) It looks purpley on here but is more blue.  He got those great jars at a garage sale and they hold q-tips, cotton balls.  It'd look better if I had all white towels stacked nicely, but that's not reality ;) and the hamper sits next to it in front of the window (the pocket door is to the right of the blue shelf).

 

I didn;t take many after picks of the laundry room- oops! We got a cheap cabinet at the Habitat for Humanity Restore and just put 2 wire shelfs next to it to hold stuff. We did this room all white.  The wall where the built in was is all white.     Here's a side by side looking at the shower   and the other side- hard to believe it's the same room!  

We still love what we did! Both rooms had new floors put down a few years ago so we didn't have to worry about that.  Now we are planning some more changes- we recently discovered most of our rooms have wood floors! I LOVE wood floors! So we are thinking of ripping up some old carpet- the downside is that the dining room (the one room I hate having carpet!) doesn't have hardwood :( So trying to match it (really don't want to try and refinish them all since they look so good) might be hard...but hopefully it'll work out! We also want to paint the kitchen cabinets! SOmething I've wanted to do for years and Mike has been against- he finally sees things my way- woohoo!

Of course, I'd rather do nothing and just sell this house......

One A Day

After: Boys room curtains, it's a pretty bad picture, but you get thepoint- before it was a blanket hyanging up tp block the sunlight.

The floor Before: Now I would like to say that we did not cover the floor before painting the fridge, because we planned on replacing it soon, so this is a pic after the fridge was painted. So the black stuff all over the floor is paint, not dirt :)

After: but before fridge was put back, you can see Eli is already throwing stuff on it

One A Day: Day 3 and 4

Day 3- Paint the fridge
Day 4- Rest from being up late painting the fridge!


Mike did more work with this than me, but I was up late, way later than usual so I'll still rest!
The fridge before was very old, yellowish, and had rust spots (which are usually covered by magnets), last year we got a new black stove and dishwasher and have been wanting to paint the fridge to match. We did it last night after the kids went to bed. We covered everything w/ paper and plastic since it is spray paint. Mike had to make something out of styrofoam to put over the fridge, since we had to have the doors open all night and we wanted to be able to leave the food in (rather than use a bunch of coolers), so he covered both sides and the seal worked great- the doors were open all night and no cold air leaked out so the food was fine!

It looks like a black fridge! We are replacing the floor anyway, so didn't cover it much.

One A Day

We are getting ready to sell our house, we have a giant list of stuff to do to the house- mostly small, but I'm going to try and get one thing marked off everyday. Somedays we'll do more, some less, some will have pictures!!

Day One- Rearrange living room furniture- it does make the room look bigger, but it makes
it way less baby proofed! Oh well, he'll learn not chew the cords eventually- right?
Day Two- Made curtains for the boys room. Will post pics once I get a new curtain rod and can
asctually put them up! (Did I mention they share a room now?)

The One I Can't Have

Our washer is leaking and destroying our house. Well not quite that drastic- yet. It leaks underneath and when Mike pulled back the carpet in the bathroom next to the laundry room (yes carpet in the bathroom- it's awful!) the water was soaking through the floor from the laundry room. So not only do we get to buy a new washer, we Mike also gets to redo the floor this summer in the laundry and bathroom- nice! We do really need to redo the bathroom anyway, so I guess this'll be a good time for us Mike to do it. Of course we could just attempt to fix the washer, but since it is probably from the 1970's we are just going to let it go and replace it. I tried to search online to see how old it really was and can't even find any info on it- so it is obviously old.

I would LOVE to get a set like these red ones- aren't they pretty??

But, those cost more than our house so I will just have to live with a boring white one-sigh...

Someday I WILL have a pretty one, I promise!