Will the Bathrooms Ever Be Done? Yup!

We had planned to tile both bathrooms this last weekend but if you've been following along, you know nothing ever goes according to plan. However, that being said, we did get all the cement board up in both bathrooms so we CAN do the tiling - probably next weekend.

Downstairs Shower

Upstairs Shower

Earlier in the week we attempted to install the cement board on the angled ceiling in the upstairs bathroom. Even after cutting more and more off, it still didn't fit right, got jammed and we ended up damaging the drywall. It is actually worse than in the pictures. It will get replaced at some point but it's not a showstopper--thank goodness.

The following picture shows how we inserted a base on the floor of the shower so that if something fell on it it wouldn't damage the shower floor. We will keep it there through tiling. Another thing I want to communicate to you is that for the cement board in the downstairs bath, we did NOT countersink the screws. Because of that the screw heads are elevated so the tiles won't be flat. We need to go back and sink the screws. We made sure we did it upstairs. Now we just need to tape, etc. and we'll be ready for tile. I can't wait.

The Front Bedroom

The front bedroom is where Dave and I slept. It is where the window is on the second floor when you look at the picture of the house head on. We put our bed there and at night we could look up at the stars and the moon. We did love that and hope to capture some of that after the remodel is complete.

To get to this room you just stepped from the office area. There are no hallways on the second floor of Hardy House. I think this is quite typical of older houses. Rooms just flow into other rooms.

As you can see, we have a couple different wallpaper patterns.
The floors upstairs had been covered by a thin blue carpeting when we bought the house. We tore that out early on and found some wonderful variable width wide-plank pine floors which we were hoping to keep.

Dave says we have a 1 1/2 story house. That's what they are called when they have a sloping roof like this. He also calls those short walls, kneehole walls.