Master Suite

While I've shown pics of the updates to the bathroom, I realized I didn't put up any pictures of the master bedroom renovations over the last month (or two). Thus, here you go! At first I only thought that I'd have to replace the southern wall, but it turned out that as I tried to strip off the old wallpaper that the north wall too needed to be redone, and instead of patching it I just put up new sheetrock up over the older stuff. With a few more minor touches and some paint, this room will just about be done.

New Wall for the Confessional

The upstairs hallway has a unique closet - it was once a confessional! As far as we've been told anyway. However, despite this neat aspect to the house, there was one slight problem. As with several other places in the house, the back wall had several years of water damage to it, which of course led me to go ahead and replace it. My daddy always told me if you're gonna fix something, might as well do it right.

So the last few days have been not only finishing up the last details of the new walls in the master bedroom (largely mudding touch-ups), but also tearing down the wall behind the closets (no fun) and replacing it, mudding, sanding (even more no fun), finally painting it and putting it back together. With this done, I can turn my work to the adjoining bathroom.

2nd Floor Renovation Update

Hey y'all,

It's been a busy week for the house, particularly the master bathroom and the upstairs hallway. If you recall from the Nov 15th post on the hallway, I had a bit of an issue when I ran out of the tabs needed to put up the ceiling - somewhat important when you still have about four feet to finish. After a couple of attempts to create my own tab-like thingys, my luck struck gold when the manufacturing company told me they'd send me some more tabs for free :) So on Wednesday my tabs came via Fed-Ex and guess what project finally got finished? (well, almost) I still need to buy more trim for it, but overall, it's up and looking good.

As for the master bathroom, it is almost finished! The floor tile is down and I grouted half of it Saturday. I have about 6 or 8 tiles to stick up on the exterior shower wall, which I plan to have finished tomorrow, in addition to putting the toilet back now that the stool area is grouted. After the tile and grout is finished, I have some more trim to put up around the edges and touch up on some of the paint, then overall the bathroom will be finished. We're still decided what to do with the ceiling and I'm hoping to find a cabinet to put under the double sinks - if not, I'll have to try and make something that will finished that look off.

This week will most likely be spent finishing up the bathroom then turning my attention to the bedroom itself. I've decided to sheetrock over the north wall instead of trying to patch it - it will take less work overall instead of patching. Getting the sheetrock up the stairs is a challenge, but once it's up the easy part begins.