Voila!

Tile, Tile, Tile!

This is a wall. A tub and white subway tile with grey grout. 

The flooring is not what I wanted. I wanted a basketweave but when the boxes arrived several were crushed. I had several issues ordering online from Home Depot and them arriving broken. I'm satisfied with the pattern, one must be adaptable in the face of adversity.

Decided to continue the neutral color scheme by painting the walls charcoal. 

More Progress

Yeah, that's walls, a window and Oh yeah! a floor sans holes.

We did the demo ourselves and hired someone to set the tub, do the window and dry wall installation, and tile floor and walls. Could we have done this ourselves, probably, but when dealing with an only bathroom quick completion takes precedent over any silly, DIY egotism.

Hark what light through yon window breaks!

I've never dated anyone who was handy before-or if they did they hid it behind a Romulan worthy cloaking device. It has been a revelation. It turns out there are people in this world with actual hard skills (!) They know how to fix things, own tools, and know other people that know how to fix things that they themselves do not know how to fix.

Yes that is a new floor (completely free of holes), a new cast iron tub and
new window. Yes I see the irony in bashing out a prior cast iron tub with a sledgehammer and replacing it with a new cast iron tub. But this one is shiny. 

This tub also weighed 300 pounds and getting it into the house was a feat that I would not see attempted by my worst enemy.
Also, thanks to a clever suggestion, the door frame was moved about 6 inches closer to the wall which frees up enough space for a respectably sized 30" vanity. A 5x8 bathroom does't leave a lot of room for imagination but every single inch counts!

Whose idea was it again to remodel the bathroom...?

That monstrous festering hole that looks like the bowels of Hades is the bathroom floor. After 15 years of the toilet leaking through layers of vinyl sheet tile, plywood, and the subfloor it had rotted away to the point where you could crumble the subfloor in your hands.

How this wasn't caught sooner is a great mystery to me...I think the water on the bathroom floor was blamed on "condensation".

The fact that the floor didn't collapse and plunge someone into the crawl space-another circle of Hell-is a mercy.

Some things are best left undiscovered.

Bathroom Remodel Continued

I have long envisioned a classic black and white bathroom. With cool, clean rows of white subway tile, a black and white floor, and thin black pencil trim.

I've still got a long way to go...

Demo process is kinda fun, kinda cathartic, but also kinda unpleasant if there is a 300 pound cast iron tub that needs removing. 

Sweat equity. Everything must go. Window, walls, floor,ceiling nothing is salvageable.

Bathroom Remodel Begins

                                This is the bathroom. It is 5x8 and one of the ugliest I have ever seen. Oh and the only bathroom in the house.

                            Everything is tiny, tacky and cheap. Hasn't been touched since the mid 70's. The layout will be basically the same but it will be a total gut job.

One Month Old Today!

Josephine

Wyatt

Urilla

Sally

Celia

Ready for their Closeups

Sally

Celia

  

Urilla

 

Josephine

Wyatt Earp: The Sheriff

(So the females are named after Wyatt Earp's 4 "wives" just in case you were wondering)

Very special delivery!

The chicks arrived on June 9th...

We sectioned off a portion of the coop for their brooder.
Used aspen bedding which is non toxic.

The chicks arrive via mail from a local hatchery.

A brooder light. Non medicated chick starter crumble (Manna). 

And fresh room temperature water.

Two buff Orpington females, a black Sumatra male, 1 Dominique female, 1 Egyptian Fayoumis female, and a Delaware female.

All made it through shipping just fine!

Cooped Up

Concrete board siding. Once painted the finish lasts 30 years.
Metal roofing panels.

Coop/Barn/Garden

The chickens will be allowed to free range.

Night lights, partly to deter predators, partly because it looks so darn cute.

These are dark sky lights-to avoid unnecessary light pollution-with LED bulbs that generate almost zero heat and last for many years.

Entrance from the barn interior into the coop.

Coop interior