Icewind's Ramblings

Happy Halloween everyone! As most of you know I have been working on a couple of projects here at the house leaving me little time to write so I wanted to post a couple of pictures of the first bathroom makeover.  I just finished for another night at 10:30 pm so I sat down with a glass of Beringer’s, a couple of Advil and that good tired feeling of accomplishment after progress today working on the master bathroom. But today I wanted to share some of the pictures from the previous work over two weekends.  This bathroom is the main full bath for the upstairs part of the house and is the one everyone uses all the time.  There was nothing about this room that really stood out but was painted when we moved in several years ago and my wife did a great job of decorating it, but it always seemed to lack something.  Here is a before picture which almost shows the bland flooring of linoleum which I hated.  The walls are a very pale yellow color and the light bar...

Finishing up another week with work and the remodeling ongoing to the master bathroom I am tired but things moving forward if ever so slowly. This is the weekend for fun times, costumes, and for some a trick or two.  Hopefully everyone will be safe and not party too much and try to fly home too fast like this one last year . . . For those of you who are on Daylight Savings Time this is the weekend to “Fall Back” an hour on Saturday night giving you that little extra sleep. For our trick or treater’s here in Alaska it is time to put those costumes on over the winter gear as we are quite cold this year but without the ground covered in snow like so many other falls before. Have fun, keep the kids safe and have a great weekend . . . as you can be anyone you wish for at least one night! Ice

These past couple of weeks has had me tearing out bathrooms, with the remodeling ongoing leaving me little time to write or have any thoughts to put on paper. I can report the first bathroom is finished except for a towel bar so it went smoothly with the demolition of the flooring, cabinet, sink, and closet being redone.  The hardest part of the demo was getting the several layers of flooring out and the prep for the tile. Once everything was taken out the first thing was a fresh coat of paint, Lowe’s Baguette color.  It is a nice color that in the low night light conditions gives off a nice easy tone.  In full light it blends nicely with the tile shades.  What started this makeover was my wife looking on Craig’s list and finding Italian marble tile for a low price.  She found 18”x18” squares (40) of beautiful tile for fifty bucks.  It was enough for the bathroom and closet floor.  The cabinet was painted and new base trim was installed. We ...