Check Out the Ugly Bathroom...

Last week (yes I know, this post is very much over due), we said a final goodbye to our ugly pink bath tub and horrible brass shower door. I tried to make these pictures especially horrendous.

Like that?

Check out the mildew...that caulk always got the better of me as I would try to clean it

The grout was pretty good and I really didn't have any complaints about the tile...it was just the bathtub. We tossed around the idea of doing a tub liner or re-glazing but also wanted to update the pipes in the wall. Since there is no access panel, one side of the wall was going to have to be destroyed. Updating the pipes and covering everything up with a full tube liner seemed like the way to go.

And here are the results!

Beautiful, don't you think!

By the way, don't think we won the lottery or anything. This project was actually partially paid for prior to the drama of the basement and was how we spent our tax return this year. If the basement would have sprung a leak just a few days earlier, we probably wouldn't have done this project.

Now, we just need to replace the ugly toilet! Someday...

Now, onto the basement...
We are finally ready to start putting our lives back together. We had some concerns that a few walls were still wet so a technician came out today and checked everything out. He checked all the access points and bleeders and it all looked good so I guess I should just chill out. I think that once you experience water in your basement you spend a lifetime freaking out over little things that might mean problems. I really just want this to be all over. I want the file cabinet out of my living room along with the ironing board and the boxes of items we didn't know where to go with. It's pretty bad over here...