It’s always a big day when the hardware gets installed. Today the hall bath got shower fixtures, the toilet, and pedestal sink. Stanley worked on touching up some other items and should install the baseboard trim tomorrow. Then it will be up to me to paint the trim and ceiling. The old trim won’t be a picnic. Originally Stanley was going to replace the door, but modern doors have three hinges and old doors like mine only have two, so I think he decided it was more trouble than it was worth to do the door, but that I could pursue replacing all the doors at some point in the future. The problem with the old doors, old trim, and old cabinets is that I just don’t see how they can ever be fixed up to look very good with all the damage and layers of paint they have on them.
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Bathroom: Day 9
These pictures show what happened on Days 9-12 actually. Thursday the electrician came and moved the outlet in my bathroom. Then the sheetrock guy came and put in the walls in the hall bath. Day 10 was Friday and not much happened (though that was the day the floor was put in the den, so really a whole lot happened).
Tile in the Den
The back room with the awful pink carpet used to be a porch and was enclosed at some point early on at my house. Since it has a concrete slab underneath, I thought tile might make a good replacement for the carpet (I wasn’t the first to think this: when I pulled up the carpet there was tile like they use in schools already under there). With the dogs coming in and out of the backyard through that room, it picks up a lot of dirt and even hardwood floors would probably get scratched up from the grit.
Microsoft Help
Our office upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 this week. Mom upgraded several weeks ago. So today Mom said that the place she takes her newletter to for printing couldn’t read the file she had made in Publisher 2007. I said can’t you just save it as an earlier version. She eventually found a place where she could save it as a Publisher 2000 file (why not 2003, the next most recent version?). I went to Microsoft for help. I tried Help that was installed with Office first. Whoops. I don’t guess Help was installed with Office (I have no idea why this would even be an option). So I switched to online help and the internet.
Bathroom: Day 8
This morning I took a shower in the master bathroom for the first time in several years. It seemed to work just fine. The trap in the vanity leaks a little bit. Other than that, the only new thing in there was they put the light fixture up over the mirror. I didn’t think it warranted a picture though.
In the hall bath they tiled above the tub and tiled the floor. I think it turned out great with the line at eye level and the bull nose along the edges, though it seems like the bull nose is a slightly different color. I’m not sure if it matters or not.
Anyway, it looks good. They should be able to grout tomorrow and maybe install the sink and toilet. Stanley says the electrician and drywall guys will come tomorrow and finish up their work.
In another room completely, Mom says Miguel may be able to start putting tile down in the back room this week. I’ve decided to use Susan’s terra cotta tile with a brown rectangle accent. So they might start tearing out the pink carpet tomorrow if I can get all of the furniture moved out of that room tonight. That will be the last project for a while.