Final Inspection - Passed!

In March 2010 we started our master bedroom renovation, and in March 2011 we received our C.O. (certificate of occupancy) and moved in.  In fact, last Friday the inspector came for our final inspection.  We passed and of course wasted no time moving in furniture.  We love our new space, and will share pictures of the completed space soon.  We are still working on getting everything in the right place and pictures hung.  I do have a few photos to share, but more are forthcoming.

Remember we bought a piece of furniture and repurposed it as our vanity.  Here is Kevin cutting the holes for our sinks.

And, now for the finished vanity...

I do have a few pictures of the finished bedroom without any furniture.  I'll also post some finished pictures of the full bathroom, closet and the bedroom once everything has been moved in.

This is a picture from the bedroom door looking across the bedroom.  The first door is the bathroom and the second door is the closet.

This shot is standing in the opposite corner of the room looking back toward the door.  You can see the hallway and the door for the pantry through the bedroom door.

In that hallway, we were finally able to have a spot for Reggie's bed that we purchased a while back at a fundraiser for the Humane Society.  As you can see here, he loves it...

More pictures of the finished product, coming soon...







Laying Tile and Painting

This is going to be a lengthy post because, as usual, I have neglected posting any progress.  We were able to get a bit done over the Christmas and New Year holidays and our recent snow days.

Since the last post, we first had the hardwood floors installed.

Here's a shot of the color.  Although this color does not match the rest of our house, we eventually want all of our floors to be this color, so we figured it made sense to go ahead and stain these the color we want everthing to be.

Once the hardwoods were installed, we were able to lay the tile in the bathroom and put up the crown molding and baseboards.  Once we got all the tile in the bathroom, we brough in the claw foot tub. Here's a few pictures of the tile in the bathroom.



Here's the tub, and that's where it will go, but we needed to leave it on the rollers until we finish everything in the bathroom.

Here's a shot that you can see a little bit of the shower.  You'll see we continued the double black line theme into the shower, and that will match our sconce lights once we get those installed.

Once we had all the tile laid, we were ready to finish painting the bathroom.  We spent the New Year holiday painting the bathroom.  It took forever.  We had to paint all the trim, which took three coats!  So, on New Year's eve when I thought we would be able to paint everything, we had almost finished the trim!  Because we wanted to stripe the bathroom, we had to finish painting on Saturday, so that the paint would have time to dry and we could paint the stripes on Monday.  So, on Monday, we taped the stripes on the walls, and got to painting.

The walls looked great, until we pulled off the tape and this happened...

The tape pulled off some of the drywall, which is not what we hoped would happen.  So, after a period of complete frustration, Kevin patched the tears and hopefully we'll just be able to touch up the paint.  This picture shows off the stripes pretty good.  It's the same color, but alternating a flat and a satin finish.



Yesterday and today we have had snow days, so we were able to do a little more work.  Here's me doing the ever exciting job of filling all the nail holes so that we can finish the rest of the painting.

So, now we should be set to finish up painting everything else - the pantry, hallway, bedroom and closet.