The final result (or the 99.9% result)

Well I promised you the finished product and here you go. Or at least as finished as we have it at the moment. The eagle eyes amongst you will notice that the bath panel is still missing. That is currently up with the lovely F-I-L being lovingly painted so we can install them hopefully in about a week...well before everyone descends for Christmas at any rate. You'll also notice that we have left the walls white.  After much debating and colour swatching (I think I own the entire sample pot range in creams and pale yellows from Farrow & Ball now) we still haven't come up with a decision. Although the most tempting is just to go with the leave it white suggestion from a friend. Too clinical? Let me know what you think!!

 Oh the choices....still haven't decied.

We still need to put some storage in as well for all our shampoos and assorted lotions and potions, but have found it so just need to make the purchase!

Ps. Having awoken to a scratching/rattling noise the other night I am now complete supporter of keeping the toilet lid down. Apparently some animal (exact type) unknown somehow got up the soil pipe into our toilet and was stuck. This has been attested to by my dear husband who went to investigate and saw the lid bouncing up and down. His gallant response....hit the flush which seemed to send the little critter whoever he may be back down the way he came. Don't know what it was, but making darn sure that lid is down from now on. Word to the wise.

The end of week two

Just following on from the previous post here is how the bathroom is looking at the end of the builder's Saturday shift. It does feel a bit mean to have them here on Saturday when we're having a glorious Indian Summer, but at least we can finally start to see things take shape.

The shower has its special blue waterproof sealant painted and the first of the mosaic tiles for the tray are going in!

And over the bath the wall tiles are going in. We can't wait to see the finished product, but we think it looks great.

 Last and not least here is our new traditional style towel radiator. The last one we had was very modern and it was impossible to get towels on. So all around pretty much twelve shades of useless. Can't wait to see the progress we make next week and if the shower gets delivered!

The first signs of progress

Well we're two weeks down in the great bathroom re-do part two. Since it's been hard to get the time to put up these posts here are some pictures of where we were half way through the first week. The walls have been patched and plastered and the insulations is about to go in under the floor.

 Re-doing your bathroom always makes you happy for the small things. We may not have a shower, tub or sink, but at least we have a toilet! It doesn't quite have a working flush,but this hook up is not too bad.

Here's next big step (sorry that it's blurry)  with the floor tiles going in!! So excited to see it start to take shape.

The final assault begins

Ok well those of you who are friends with me on Facebook will know that today was Day 1 of Bathroom round 2. Very exciting! This is the LAST major building work planned to get the house how we want it.  It also means that we are one big step closer to finishing the house for the end of the year.

Now some of you will remember that we had our bathroom redone a while ago when the kitchen was being done (http://aoldhouse.blogspot.com/2009/06/real-destruction-begins.html). But this episode of bathroom renovation taught us many things including:

• Black is not a good color for tiles, especially in a hard water area
• There is a special kind of wood you are supposed to use on bathroom floors (marine ply for those of you interested)

and most importantly:

• YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

So having not paid very much it wasn't entirely surprising when the shower started to leak and stain the kitchen ceiling and the floor tiles started to crack in half due to the water soaking into the ply ad swelling. Joy joy joy!

So older, wiser and with some money in our pocket (but not for long) we've got back in the lovely builders that we used for the last major works. They were really great so we thought why not! 

Today is Day 1 = Destruction Day. I left to a bathroom fully intact and without a care in the world and have come home to this:

All of our furniture is crammed in the front room!

This is why I love that my husband is an engineer. He can draw things like this and they look like they are supposed to!

This is the final look we have taken as our inspiration. So lots more light and just brightening up the whole space.

Let us know what you think and I'll try to update this every day there is decent progress.