Quandary....

When one's laundry room looks like this....

you visit this!

Project post #12...

It was another dance competition weekend so we were gone and accomplished nothing! :-)
I am posting all the pictures from last weekend until right now! We will begin back tonight and our goal is to finish by Sunday! We are currently having rain (everyday since Friday) and this makes it very hard to pull out the wet saw and finish the tile. The weather should clear up by tomorrow and we can move forward! I have been holding out on the wallpaper until last but may go ahead and hang it tonight. We did go to Ikea this weekend and I got a few things namely lighting!
Just a few more days and it will be complete...(for the most part)
Picture 1 - bathroom/laundry room before the gut

Picture 2 - Pops helping me prep the walls...(already stripped the wallpaper)

Picture 3- things are disappearing...

Picture 4 - another angle

Picture 5 - Brent putting down backer board for the tile.

Picture 6- ready to begin painting (already started in laundry room but changed the color after I started to a different green)

Picture 7 - the start of the tiles...

Picture 8- master tile boy

Picture 9 - FINALLY the hot water heater is gone...

Picture 10- the "new" (remember recycled from my sister) cabinetry in place

Picture 11- View 1 from where we stand at this moment...

Picture 12 - View 2

Project post #11

Last fall when we started thinking about this project, we realized that we would probably have to consider replacing the 17 year old 'electric' hot water heater that works perfectly but would have to be moved to do the tile work. This started us thinking about the new tankless systems. After much research, the electric ones just didn't make any sense and the other is gas so we would have to convert to that ( we have natural gas already at the house). We had come to the conclusion that this was really out of our budget and we would just get a new electric one.
Fast forward to last Monday...I was on Craig's List looking around and found a gas tankless hot water heater that someone was selling($375). They had only had it a couple of months and had to relocate and he was selling it (I think because he needed the $$). We met with the plumber about where we would put it (it goes outside) and the cost and then he and Brent went to the house and removed it!
Friday, he came back to install it and after it got hooked up it was determined that one of the interior copper pipes had an unseen crack in it (since we have had such freezing temps this winter and he had the water cut off is probably why it cracked and probably unknown to him). Brent called Rheem and found out that he had never registered it and it was still under warranty and they would send someone out on Monday.
Monday...Brent got the call and the guy determined over the phone that they would replace it so yesterday I picked up our brand new hot water heater! :-)

Picture 1 - the one we bought

Picture 2 - the brand new one...

Picture 3....the trade out receipt (WOW...I saved just under $1000)

Needless to say, now my remodel just got more exciting! Just wait till you see the changes...they are coming in pictures in the next few days! I can't wait to share them with you...

Project post #10....

Back to the mudroom project! Back in November, we went to the habitat store in Charlotte and hit the motherlode for tile! We picked up 14 boxes for under $85 (that's less then fifty cents a tile). Remember back in the fall I posted about getting the FREE thin- set? I love bargains! Just wait until later in this week when I tell you about my latest bargain that just got even better! :-)
We have been clipping along on the mud/laundry/bath room this weekend and I will have lots of posts/pictures all week! When it's all said and done, I'll put my cost of this redo up and break it down for you. If you have been following along, it's not much! :-)

Friend or foe....

Greta (the alpha dog) growls and shows her teeth and Ellen ( the 'everyone loves me' dog) keeps on licking....determined to be her BFF!!!!

Just to keep everyone happy...Greta does not hurt Ellen (it's just show).

Wordless Wednesday....

Shhhh...I'm not talking but you need to blow this one up.
It's my favorite DC picture!

DC.... (part 2)

More pics from the trip...double click them all :-)

Picture 1 - The 'President' arriving back home...

Picture 2 - the goof....

Picture 3 - the capitol

Picture 4 - Wait...don't miss Brent (that's his hand)

Picture 5 - Monuments by moonlight tour...(in the front the WWII memorial, Washington Monument and then the Capitol)

Picture 6 - Honest Abe...Hayden's Idol

Picture 7 - The White House (from the top of the Washington Monument)

Picture 8 - Washington Monument by day! :-)

Picture 9 - Air and Space Museum

Picture 10 - He did go....

Picture 11 - End of day 2 and their still smiling!

Picture 12 - Library of Congress

Picture 13 - our only souvenir...

I am saving the best picture for Wordless Wednesday!

Birthday trip to DC.... (part 1)

This past Thursday, we embarked on our annual 'Surprise Birthday Trip' for Hayden and her friend Kayla! This year Kayla's mom, Shannon (also our friend) came with us! I realized looking through all the photos that Brent was more the photographer this trip and that there are very few with him in the pictures. Sorry honey...

Picture 1 - Waiting on the train...

Picture 2 - the train (Amtrak) pulling in to the station...

Picture 3 - Inside Union Station in DC....

Picture 4 - Changing of the guard at Arlington....

Picture 5 - The Birthday girl...(I know this is one of those only a mother would love pics...and I do love it but don't ask me why...because I can't tell you! )

Picture 6 - Peaceful...

Picture 7 - the girls...again

Picture 8 - neat tour...a lot of cool information
Picture 9 - next stop...the Holocaust Museum....heavy!
Picture 10 - Best Friends that act like sisters separated at birth!Stay tuned....more tomorrow!