Wainscot

Ooooh!  Ahhhh!  Yes I know that is what you are saying because the bathroom looks absolutely fabulous.  We are actually done now so I'll have to add the finale pics later.

Paint me Peacock

We started painting...

The color is peacock blue and next (besides paint touch up) we have the wainscot to put up.  Almost there- I think we can, I think we can, I think we can...

I'm Walled In!

Bathroom here we come!  We have the walls up now and are just finishing them up while Neal started tiling the bathroom.  Yee-haw!

Bathroom Update

We are {slowly} moving along on our bathroom.  Let me just say I will be very excited when there is light in the laundry room so I can see if there are any stains, and when I don't have to worry about sawdust and cement dust getting all over the clean clothes!  But patience, patience... it will all be worth it.

Wall frames are up and Neal is finishing up the electrical work.  That is a light Neal put up in the laundry room- yea!

Sometimes I feel like I need to escape the chaos of our house {or you can just call it mess}, but the only problem is that here in this little Iowa town, the summer means a TON of the roads have construction and right now a lot of stores are under construction too.  Where to go, where to go?  I cannot wait until the pool is open because that is where we will be escaping.  This is the boys last week of school and then we have the freedom to do whatever we want.  Or the problem of us all stuck at home with the {mess}.  Let us not think of that right now.

What We're Up To

Things have changed a little at our house lately.  I recently signed up to be an independent consultant for Close to my Heart (a scrapbooking and stamping company) which has been very different for me but also has been fun [see: whatmecraft.blogspot.com].  We have also started building a bathroom for the basement!  It is very exciting- we already have been in need of 2 bathrooms with tubs/shower so it will be so nice to have that.  And with family visiting for Adam's baptism it will be even better than everyone using 1 bathroom.  Yea!

The plumber came and did all the piping then Neal took down the ceiling.  We just need to put up our walls, do the electrical work and then the plumber will come back and install the tub, toilet and vanity.

Putting up walls will also give me a laundry room which means less space, but hopefully a quieter basement.

I am also excited to actually get to decorate and plan how we want things with these 2 rooms- I haven't been too into what the previous owners decided.  While we were in California Neal put tile in our master bath which was really nice since the previous owners had purple/blue linoleum with grey/pink tile on the walls.  Who knows why they put tile on the walls and linoleum on the floors.

This is a prototype of what I'd like to do with our basement bathroom.  I redid the photo from a blog that shows you how to put up your own wainscot with the colors I want.  And I really like the shower curtain she used.  We weren't sure if we wanted to go with a dark vanity or white, but I think with 3 boys we'll end up getting dark.

So that's what we've been up to!  I'll keep posting pictures as we finish more.