Bathroom Reno's....correction- DEMO'S!

In an earlier post, I mentioned that we are getting ready to renovate our first bathroom or the "kids bathroom" as we like to call it (I know, we dont have kids, but ONE DAY they will be using it-lol!).

Here are some pics of the demo process.
Ian will probably say I doubted him and his abilities to do the demo (and I must say I MIGHT have questioned his abilities...a little) but he did a great job, and I even helped carry the tub down the stairs! Thank you pump classes at the gym! lol...


The actual renovation started today, so it wont be long before I'll be posting the "after" pictures.

Let me remind you of what the bathroom looked like before:

And now for the demo pics:

Toilet gone:

walls around shower getting taken down:

vanity gone:

tub fill of wall reminants, but soon to be removed:

Ian doing an awesome job, and pretty proud of his accomplishments! :)

Everything removed (walls, tub, etc):

Demo complete!

Stay tuned for some more updates on how the progress is coming along....all I can say right now, is that the sub floor is down, tub is in, and its coming along very nicely ;)

Bathroom Renos

When purchasing our new home, one of the things that we knew we were going to do first, was to update/renovate the bathrooms. The 2 upstairs bathrooms were definitely in need of some work, as the tub and sinks were rusted out (metal sinks!), toilets were old, barely functioning and needed to be replaced with water saving/energy efficient ones, and all decor needed to be changed.

We are currently in the process of working on the upstairs main bath (or "kids bath") as I like to call it, as it is much smaller and is a good "starting" project for us.

I will post pictures as our progress continues, but here are the before shots:

Main/Kids Bath BEFORE

Master Ensuite BEFORE

Main Floor Powder Room BEFORE

Now, dont be fooled, by the nice lighting and angles in these pictures-lol. These pictures were all taken by the realator who sold this house, so they so look a bit better in these pics. Regardless, you can see the challenge we are working with in the master ensuite, since we have decided to take everything out and start fresh.

Stay Tuned...more pics (and progress!) to come!

Goodbye to the old... and hello to the outdated?

Goodbye first home.....

Bittersweet was this moment for us.

This was our first home together. The place where we had moved in together, cooked together, planted gardens together, planned our wedding together, brought home our first “baby” together (cloverJ) and were now leaving.

We had been anxiously looking for a house with more space not only for us, but also our gigantic “puppy” who had literally gone from a cute 15 pound fluff ball to a 75 pound polar bear in literally 5 months. We NEEDED space.

My dad (and incredible sales agent) found us our new home. It wasn’t perfect, but it had “the bones” as my dad would say, and we could make it our own. Plus it had a pool... and who doesn’t love the idea of having summer bbq’s and pool parties?! We were sold.

So we put our little home on the market and within a month, had sold it to another young couple starting their lives together.

I cried when it sold. I cried when we packed, I cried when we moved and I cried the first night we didn’t go back. It had been our home and this new place we were in, didn’t feel like a home yet. The toilet flush sounded like an airplane take-off, the dishwasher had bandaids and action figures in it, the walls were Barney purple with shiny stripes, but I had to remember my dad’s words of wisdom….”one step at a time Melissa, one step at a time”. I knew we COULD make this house our home, but did we have it in us?

We had never renovated or done a lot of home projects in the past. But I knew we were both willing to learn, willing to try and up for the challenge.

So that was it. Goodbye to the old and hello to the outdated ;)