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Bathroom_v2.1.4_final_FINAL

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Nearly there. _FINAL ly.

Almost everything was completed yesterday.

Toilet hung.
Shower glass in.
Mirrors up and wired in.
Countertop installed.
Basins glued. n0 fUmEs wErE InH@LeD…
Taps drilled and attached.

And it’s just that penultimate one that’s holding us back. Because the glue needs to set before they can plumb the basins in, and so they’ll need to visit us for about half an hour on Monday.

So _FINAL_FINAL, then.

While the guys have been great throughout – and I’ll try to remember a post with some contacts in for local people wanting recommended local services for local things – it’s been a real mission to get through this with the numerous public holidays meaning short weeks, and a small, tight, hard to get to workspace in the East Wing of 6000 Manor.

But we’re (very, very nearly) there now. And it’s looking great.

We might even get to sleep in our own room tonight.

Here we go…

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A little over 4 years after we moved into this place, and with our ensuite bathroom top of the list of priorities for renovation when we moved into this place, tomorrow morning will see us finally begin the renovation of our ensuite bathroom.

Eish.

It’s not like we haven’t done other stuff instead. The living room has been transformed. The kitchen refloored. The bar has been completely redone. New French windows. We built a braai. We got rid of the horrible ou doos tiling in the entrance hallway. The kids’ bedrooms have been recarpeted and reglazed. There are several (or more) other new windows around the place.

And these were the things that we chose to do. There was a lot of fixer-upper stuff that has been forced upon us (and this) along the way.

It would have been great to get all of this done ages ago, but the magic money tree simply doesn’t bear that much fruit.

The bathroom was awful when we moved in – hence the priority thing – and so we had to do a few things to it to make it less awful and more livable with. But it turned out that those things apparently made it very livable with, and so we have lived with it for 4 whole years.

Oops.

Now, the time has come to bite the bullet and get on with starting over. Over the next few days, it will be completely gutted, back to the bare walls (and in a couple of places, beyond the bare walls). And then a new bathroom shall spring forth, phoenix-like, from the fiery(?) ruins.

And, since they were here anyway, we’re getting them to remove the hideous guest bathroom tiles and sort that out too.

The next few weeks are going to be pretty stressful, but it will – it will – all be worth it.