Shower complete (almost)

Most of this weekend I've been working on the shower. Here's how it came out. The gap on the right side is where I will cut 4 bullnose edge pieces to equal sizes to fill the space. I'll do that tomorrow. Also on the agenda - tile the bathtub surround already.

It seems like work may have been moving slowly, but it's taken a lot of effort to get here. The shower floor had to be built and sloped, drain installed, tiles cut to make the shower floor, assemble the curb (much more cutting), and get the shower walls going (more cutting on the bottom row). Here's how it looks so far.









Things are moving quickly now since the hardest cuts are behind me. The shower should be finished or close to it by tomorrow evening and I may be able to put some work into the bathtub surround.

Granite will also be on order tomorrow, and I'll be able to put in for the shower glass since I know exactly what the final dimensions of each wall are. My work for this project is almost over.

Sunday update

Not a lot of words this time - mostly pictures. The floor is almost in. It would be all the way in, but we were short tile from our order and now I have to buy another box. Moral of the story is if the boxes don't have a coverage area printed on them, figure out how many square feet there are in whatever they deliver and compare it to the invoice before the delivery guy leaves.

So here's what it looks like today.





Cabinets are in. So is the toilet but no pic of that.



Everything is nice and level.






After I finish up the floor it'll be time to start the shower. In the meantime I'll work on getting 3 estimates for granite because that's ready to go now. Even without a countertop it's finally starting to look like a bathroom again. Right now the goal is to be done installing the shower by the end of the week so the only thing I have any control over will be simple trim work by the end of next weekend. Then I get to start working on the next project.

The oven should already be here sometime this week...

Finally some progress

We finally have some progress on the bathroom. The tile for the floor came in, and I was able to get an order of waterproofing membrane for the shower in - this time from a reliable distributor - and I'm back at work again.

This evening I laid out the whole pieces of stone. Luckily there were some straight line markings left over from the last tile floor this bathroom had, and I was able to use those to get the pattern straight. It's called a Versailles (aka headache) pattern. The stone is cut so that each of them meet with a butt joint. Grout lines will be really tight.

Enough talk, here are the pictures.




In other news... we got the order in for the cabinets and I'm ordering appliances tomorrow. We also have an order in for the bedroom furniture and will be placing another order with Basset for some random formal living room and dining room stuff tomorrow. Maybe a rug too... I'm not quite sold on the one we saw today yet. Kind of annoying because there's a big 20/30% off sale, but we have to place an order tomorrow because it ends then.

We're also almost done with the front / upstairs bedroom. It's painted, carpets cleaned and the furniture is moved in. Basically all it needs is a frame for this Shrek poster that I have and it'll be finished. Pics to come soon. The office is now a work in progress since all the bedroom stuff that was in there is gone, along with the giant bookshelf that was on the wall. It's really opened up the room, almost too much because now it looks really empty. Great view out the window now though from the new desk layout.