House | Update

We seemed to have finally rounded a corner towards the master suite and laundry room completion! There’s even a rumor that our washer and dryer will be reinstalled this week…. you guys, it’s been TEN weeks since we’ve had laundry…. TEN!

The last update I shared, everything was framed… which was a milestone, but now I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. They got everything dry-walled and painted by early last week and began to tile. The floor tile went down with ease, but then we the contractor & tile installer ran into all kinds of issues installing wall tile. I came home to find they had done the decorative mosaic in a square, which I’d supplied them a very specific drawing with a rectangle (to mimic the wall shape). This snowballed into, ripping tile down that couldn’t be reused, that led me to make THREE trips to get more tile…. in GREENSBORO. I wasn’t happy…. but I came home yesterday to it all corrected and it looks wonderful! They also got the vanity moved in place and out of our dining room… which meant I finally felt like I could clean for the first time in 2 months! Our dining room has been the logical holding place for all the items that we supplied (it’s right next to the reno location), that would be needed for the reno (tile, faucets, mirrors, lights and vanity)… so that meant our dining room as looked like this for months…. ugh! There was no reason to shuffle and clean… until Friday. I spent like 3 hours cleaning…. which basically sent me into an allergy attack most of the weekend. So.Much.Dust.

Thankfully, the dusty time seems to be ending and we will be moving in soon!

All the walls are painted Benjamin Moore Strong White. The door hardware was installed (we are having all the doors in the house replaced so they will all match these and this hardware)

Above is standing in the new hall looking into the bedroom. Below left: looking into hall (and existing kitchen) from the bedroom, right: looking into laundry room from master doorway.

Below: standing at the bathroom door looking back at the hall (left door) and closet (right door).

After living with our tiny pink and blue bath, we are SO excited to have a proper master bath. It’s coming together and we love it!

A major trend in bathroom renos is to include a niche for your soap and shampoo… but I HATE when you can see them from outside the shower… my bright orange shampoo and conditioner bottles are not pretty… so we hid our niche in the knee wall so that you cannot see it from the bathroom. (example)

You can see the toilet drain in the corner and the tub drain under the window. I think they may be installing both today. They;re also grouting today.

The Carrara marble and sinks were also installed yesterday, they look beautiful!

Next time I share an update…. we’ll be moved in!!!