More remodelling starts this week!

The guys will be here Tuesday to begin work on what will be the master bathroom (AKA the bathroom that has been unusable since the previous owners bought the house from the owner before that). Was hoping to reuse the (supposedly new) whirlpool bathtub but found a big crack in it last week, so that has to go. Good thing: allowed me to rethink the overall design and layout of the room, and make better use of the space... and now I'll be able to have that amazing view of the wetlands from in the shower without anyone except a low-flying heron looking in.

We are going to open up a door from the bedroom, seal up the door to the living room, move the sink, reduce the interior wall (where the nasty tacky gold-plated non-working shower cube was, install bathtub at ninety degrees to the exterior wall with the shower above it. Close up the entry to the attic and remove the stairs (can still get in from the bedroom) which should provide more storage space. Tile the floor and the walls. I have fifty square feet of black pebble tiles (i.e., flat, black, smooth pebbles stuck to mesh, like mosaic. Will do something inventive with it...

The picture above is the basis for the new vanity in the second bathroom. The frame/legs is part of a buy from ReStore: it came with an ugly, heavy sink, I'm just using the chrome frame and making a counter top (plywood, backerboard and stone tiles), with a "vessel" sink. That is, as long as I can persuade the guys that it really will work...

Lesson learned today: when you buy a set of circle cutters for your drill (I have absolutely no idea what you call them: they are devices that you fit to drill in order to cut holes of one or two inches in diameter), you absolutely get what you pay for. I threw my set away after having to remove second half of the hole for the tap with a chisel. Was especially annoying because I had to spend about an hour trying to find the darn things in the first place...