Inching Visibly Closer To Home in the Bathrooms

That Honey Bucket out front is not long for this world. Pretty soon, maybe by Thursday, I think Steve's going to have Ray the Plumber come down and hook up the Toto toilet, the tub, and the sink in the basement bathroom. With the floor tile installed yesterday, Steve put all the yellow tile on the walls today, so it'll all be ready for grouting tomorrow. It's looking more and more like a real house again. I'll have to get the wall sconces for the kids' bathroom quickly.

He must've taken most of the day to do that, plus put the wall mounted electrical boxes in for the upstairs bathroom for those sconces, because the only tile up there is just the ones directly centered on the sink, which as you can see he carefully lined up precisely on the center. Being an architect you know, that whole centered thing is critical.

In other developments, the plastic laminate sample came today, and my initial reaction was not one of overwhelming acceptance. So I pulled a few more swatches just to see if anything else would stick, and we'll go by the house tonight to see. I ordered larger samples of each one just in case. No progress has been made on the kitchen, Pete's been diligently plugging away at the basement drywall mudding, and it's inching closer and closer, sometimes asymtotically it seems, to being finished.

Chillin'

I've mentioned a number of times that we've been staying in a rental house while the gut job's been going on at our real house, but I haven't shown you any pics of it yet. You can't say that anymore- here's a shot of my feet as they relax on the ottoman in the living room. I'll shoot up another view of it soon for ya'll.