Renovations

I’m off! Yes, I scheduled this post to be published at 6:15 AM, because that’s when I’ll be boarding my first flight (Barring weather complications).I fly to Toronto, then on to Newark where I’ll be meeting up with Delilah Devlin and heading off to our cruise ship for some fun and adventure.

And I am so very ready for this vacation. Yes, it’ll be a working vacation as both Delilah and I have research and writing to do while on our trip, but it won’t be all work. 😉

The last month or so has been hectic for me. I’ve been renovating my condo, with the help of family and friends. I’d show you pics of them working but I like my face the way it is, and I don’t want it re-arranged. So…you get things, not people.

This is the old bathroom vanity/sink sitting in the entryway. I forgot to take a picture of the shower tiles before I had them replaced, but they were white tiles with brown and orange flowers. Yeah, you know, like form the 70’s. The vanity was built in, long, and uninspiring. The same kind that is standard to any apartment over 10 years old.

I hired a guy to redo the tiles. See, nice new white ones with pretty sandstone accent. 🙂 The rest was pretty much built around the new vanity. I fell in love with it when we were at Rona, and that was it. Loved the dark wood, the solid white sink, and the brushed nickle handles. So..we redid the floor, painted (I still can’t believe I went with green. I’m so not a green person, but it looks awesome.) New lighting, faucete and towelbars. And finally, new shiny white trim. 🙂

Then it was on to the bedroom.

We shoved all the furniture into the middle of the room and threw a couple of drop plastic drop sheets over them. This wasn’t a complete reno job, just a paint, cleanup and redecorate job. The cats hid pretty much the whole time the bathroom was getting done. They didn’t like the sawing, drilling, hammering. But with the bedroom there was none of that, and they were enjoying themselves. Below is Scarlet the adventuress exploring the ins and outs of things beneath the drop sheets.

I have a two bedroom place,and since I live alone one bedroom is my office. They’re both painted, but I have no pictures of them to show you right now. Mostly because they still have no curtains yet, and to me that means they are unfinished.

So far, the bathroom has been completely redone, and the two bedrooms have been painted. My mom is going to repaint the living room, hallway and entry way while I’m on the cruise, as a christmas gift to me. (YAY!) When I get home I’ll get curtains and finish them off, then I’ll take pictures for you.

So,the bathroom got new flooring already, but that’s it, the rest of the place will have to wait until spring.