They're back and they're wielding crowbars...
Not to neglect my other blog or anything but...that's what I'm totally doing.
Providing much of an intro on our current project would be vast and wide, long, boring at times, and rather bothersome to follow. So I'm not going to. I'm just going to dive right in and if there are questions - by all means, tip-tap-type a little comment in the box below.
I will, however, provide all of you with this little vital bit of info: we inherited an old converted GMC bus over a year ago. And now we are getting around to renovating it.
Meet The Coach:
Looks innocent enough doesn't she?
Yea, not so much.
She's a bit of a pandora's box with the mildew and old wiring and saggy headliner and broken appliances and leaky gaskets and and and...
But that's exactly what we bargained for. We knew what we were accepting and now begins the fun part of fixing her up and challenging ourselves.
So last weekend...
We circled back to the bathroom since the bedroom was providing a couple roadblocks and rather then throwing pissing tantrums every ten minutes I decided that new scenery would be a good idea.
This is the new scenery I'm talking about:
Again, looks innocent...not so much.
Don't let the outdated appearance persuade you. What we did to the bathroom this weekend was mostly out of necessity.
There was water damage, and leaky toilet gaskets, a malfunctioning toilet...
And look at the YELLOW people?!
YELLOW.
I care not to elaborate much further because if you just can't understand why we did this, then, either you're biased by nostalgia (cough mom cough cough) or you have scary old school taste and I don't care what you think anyway.
And here we go...Sunday afternoon, 3 hours, one jigsaw and two crowbars later...
Sorry Mom.
The more we dug into it the more we realized we could rebuild it so much better.
Bigger! Stronger! We have the technology!
That and the jigsaw was just lying there not going to any particularly good use at the moment.
So, as you can see, we have some work ahead of us.
And this is just the bathroom...you should see the state the bedroom is in right now.
Ahem.
For those of you interested in further detail...
You can experience the whole exciting process by looking at our photo documentary here:
We tore out the mustard yellow toilet because it had "issues".
We pulled out the sink faucet because it, too, was having "issues".
The sink has been preserved considering you can't go wrong with stainless steal. Seriously, it was, like, the ONLY thing in there that wasn't yellow other than the walls. Those are just Poo-brown. Sigh. So, I'll be polishing the sink up and putting it back.
The entire vanity had a nasty run-in with the jigsaw and is now sitting in two pieces in our garage. At first I thought we might keep it.
Ahem. It's yellow.
People? We went over this. That and there was extensive water damage on the counter top and as I have no desires to learn how to re-laminate a surface, seeing as how I have no desire to learn how to laminate in the first place...
Out it came.
Here's what we are planning - so you can snicker when we don't follow through and end up doing something totally different:
- build new bathroom vanity, probably out of Oak or Birch veneer stock wood, and stain it a light shade.
- replace counter top with new! fancy! corian! yea!
- re-use original sink basin, put in new pretty shiny nice faucets.
- don't cry I'm pulling out the teak flooring and putting in these new fancy vinyl tiles that look like REAL ceramic tiles. Seriously - the teak floor is urine soaked from roughly 20 years of pissing on. Wanna argue about it now?
- putting in new fancy schmancy higher profile toilet!
- possibly adding more vanity lights to help brighten up the room, it's quite a cave in there as it is.
What I'm going to do this weekend:
- pull out teak floor (preserve what I can from the area that is not quite so, ahem, close to the toilet area - to save for a rainy day. The stuff's not cheap!)
- clean clean clean
- build up sub-flooring since the vinyl tiles are significantly thinner than the teak flooring that's there now
- and if I'm super slick and fast and no more crazy shit happens that keeps me busy...lay the new floor!
- oh, and make the husband replace the cold water pipe since some previous "plumber" wrenched the crap out of the sink's pipe when putting on a new fitting. Bad bad bad.
Keep posted, I'll be blogging on this regularly.
Any if you follow my other blog you'll know that's a lie.
Providing much of an intro on our current project would be vast and wide, long, boring at times, and rather bothersome to follow. So I'm not going to. I'm just going to dive right in and if there are questions - by all means, tip-tap-type a little comment in the box below.
I will, however, provide all of you with this little vital bit of info: we inherited an old converted GMC bus over a year ago. And now we are getting around to renovating it.
Meet The Coach:
Looks innocent enough doesn't she?
Yea, not so much.
She's a bit of a pandora's box with the mildew and old wiring and saggy headliner and broken appliances and leaky gaskets and and and...
But that's exactly what we bargained for. We knew what we were accepting and now begins the fun part of fixing her up and challenging ourselves.
So last weekend...
We circled back to the bathroom since the bedroom was providing a couple roadblocks and rather then throwing pissing tantrums every ten minutes I decided that new scenery would be a good idea.
This is the new scenery I'm talking about:
Again, looks innocent...not so much.
Don't let the outdated appearance persuade you. What we did to the bathroom this weekend was mostly out of necessity.
There was water damage, and leaky toilet gaskets, a malfunctioning toilet...
And look at the YELLOW people?!
YELLOW.
I care not to elaborate much further because if you just can't understand why we did this, then, either you're biased by nostalgia (cough mom cough cough) or you have scary old school taste and I don't care what you think anyway.
And here we go...Sunday afternoon, 3 hours, one jigsaw and two crowbars later...
Sorry Mom.
The more we dug into it the more we realized we could rebuild it so much better.
Bigger! Stronger! We have the technology!
That and the jigsaw was just lying there not going to any particularly good use at the moment.
So, as you can see, we have some work ahead of us.
And this is just the bathroom...you should see the state the bedroom is in right now.
Ahem.
For those of you interested in further detail...
You can experience the whole exciting process by looking at our photo documentary here:
We tore out the mustard yellow toilet because it had "issues".
We pulled out the sink faucet because it, too, was having "issues".
The sink has been preserved considering you can't go wrong with stainless steal. Seriously, it was, like, the ONLY thing in there that wasn't yellow other than the walls. Those are just Poo-brown. Sigh. So, I'll be polishing the sink up and putting it back.
The entire vanity had a nasty run-in with the jigsaw and is now sitting in two pieces in our garage. At first I thought we might keep it.
Ahem. It's yellow.
People? We went over this. That and there was extensive water damage on the counter top and as I have no desires to learn how to re-laminate a surface, seeing as how I have no desire to learn how to laminate in the first place...
Out it came.
Here's what we are planning - so you can snicker when we don't follow through and end up doing something totally different:
- build new bathroom vanity, probably out of Oak or Birch veneer stock wood, and stain it a light shade.
- replace counter top with new! fancy! corian! yea!
- re-use original sink basin, put in new pretty shiny nice faucets.
- don't cry I'm pulling out the teak flooring and putting in these new fancy vinyl tiles that look like REAL ceramic tiles. Seriously - the teak floor is urine soaked from roughly 20 years of pissing on. Wanna argue about it now?
- putting in new fancy schmancy higher profile toilet!
- possibly adding more vanity lights to help brighten up the room, it's quite a cave in there as it is.
What I'm going to do this weekend:
- pull out teak floor (preserve what I can from the area that is not quite so, ahem, close to the toilet area - to save for a rainy day. The stuff's not cheap!)
- clean clean clean
- build up sub-flooring since the vinyl tiles are significantly thinner than the teak flooring that's there now
- and if I'm super slick and fast and no more crazy shit happens that keeps me busy...lay the new floor!
- oh, and make the husband replace the cold water pipe since some previous "plumber" wrenched the crap out of the sink's pipe when putting on a new fitting. Bad bad bad.
Keep posted, I'll be blogging on this regularly.
Any if you follow my other blog you'll know that's a lie.
3 Comments:
you are totally neglecting the fun blog!
This IS the fun blog! You just don't know the coach!
Oh Mary, remember our old house on Ramona street that had walls the same color as that yellow stuff in the bathroom? Remember how you drew a space alien on the wall with the new lighter color paint we were going to use? Did I tell you how many coats I had to use to cover up the alien? Oh, Memories!! Nisa
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