A little rennovation of the bathroom never hurt anyone...

Well, It hasn't hurt us yet... except for that small minor detail --- we have to go use the bathroom in the basement because we tore up the toilet. That may not sound too hard (and it's not when it's during the day) but night time is a different story. By the time I find my way, in the dark, to the very farthest corner of the basement to use the restroom, I'm fully awake! And, because it's in the basement, the bathroom is freezing cold! Oh well... a little sacrifice for a gorgeous new bathroom is do-able :)

A week ago, on Sunday night, I decided to run to Michael's to go shopping :) I came home and found Mark pulling tiles off of the wall. I was a little surprised as he had been sick with a fever the entire week. (God healed him that afternoon after a wonderful time of prayer at church!) Anyway, he was running around like a little kid with a new toy... he was excited to be starting on the bathroom as we have been wanting to update it since we moved in (in 2005!) It was funny to watch him. Mady wasn't too sure what to think though as she curiously watched Daddy the entire time!

The next few days, Mark gutting the bathroom. We also had someone from church come and install a light/exhaust fan. Because we have an older home, the work for the exhaust fan was a little more challenging than expected.

I'm so PROUD of my husband! He's so good at getting in and doing different jobs around the house - and he does a GREAT job! He took all the existing tile off of the walls and the inside of the shower. He is ripping up the old linoleum floor and laying new tile, he put in new *board (i can't remember what's it's called) inside the shower to protect against water, and he's putting up nice white tile where there used to be ugly green! Oh, and he's painting! Did I mention that I have a wonderful husband!??

Currently, we're almost finished (I say "we're" but you all know who's doing the work!) with the bathroom. He's got it all painted and is finishing up the tile on the walls as we speak (it's 10:00pm!) So, he'll just have the floor left and then voila! we'll be done!

I love it! It's looking great. The color was a stretch for us - we thought we were going for a different shade but we ended up liking the one we picked. If you've been to our house, you know that we love color and we're not afraid to use it!!!!

Here are a couple of pictures of the process. The first is the bathroom when we moved in (angry bathroom as we called it!), the 2nd is what we did to it (2 days after we moved in - we wanted to get it painted quickly has we had guests coming!), and then there are a couple of current picts of what we're doing now... For more pics, check out: http://community.webshots.com/user/jmlbettinger