When we bought our apartment we knew we would need to update the bathroom and eventually the kitchen. We planned on doing the bathroom reno last year but after meeting with a contractor who quoted us $30,000 for our small bathroom we kind of procrastinated, a lot! The bathroom really, really needed to be fixed but we were both kind of gun shy about finding someone to do the work after that experience. Kudos to JO for showing amazing initiative by approaching a contractor working on another unit in our building. I was a bit shocked when JO texted me at work and said we were doing on our bathroom and kitchen and the work would start in June. I was thrilled at the thought of having a clean, functioning bathroom and a pretty kitchen but it was the middle of May. How would we get everything together during such a busy time at school???
Well, here's the truth. We spent hours and hours looking at tile and cabinet and counters and it was eating up all of our free time. We had some serious issues with making decisions on materials and eventually made the executive decision to just do the bathroom. As much as I want that pretty kitchen, I did not have the mental capacity necessary to make all those decisions as evidenced by the five hours we spent in one tile shop only to leave with white subway tile that we ended up returning. I was having tile nightmares. It was really rough! Plus, this way we would have money to play around with if anything went wrong in the bathroom.
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| I want blue cabinets so bad!!! |
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| Too many choices! |
After said "subway" tile disaster I was feeling pretty down. JO cheered me up with a visit to Oleana! We tried to sit at the bar but it was full so they offered to seat us in there patio waiting area...which just happened to be beautiful!
Monday was Demo Day and the shenanigans we had to pull off to prepare were impressive. First, we moved the couches and my jackets and shoes into the studio. The cats would be spending most of their time in the living room and we didn't want any cat "protests" to ruin this stuff. Then, we emptied our bathroom and moved most of that stuff into the living room. Next we modified our second bathroom, which we use as a kitten bathroom/storage closet, so that we could share with the kittens (they aren't thrilled, we aren't thrilled, but we are all making the bet of it.) And then we took everything off the kitchen counters and stored it here, there, and everywhere (don't you all keep your cereal on the bookcase in the living room?) I don't do well with chaos but so far so good.
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| We bought stuff!!! |
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| It took literally years to pick this tile out but I feel pretty good about it! |
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| I miss the couch! |
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| We stopped caring about the bathroom a long time ago and it shows |
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| Demo Day! |
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| Only wrinkle- we didn't plan on not really being able to access the cabinets easily |
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| Denali is pretty skeptical about the whole thing and isn't thrilled with living room life |
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| Help! It sounds like they are smashing up a bathtub. I'll be in here if you need me. |
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