Saturday, September 26, 2009

Could you find for me a wrench?

It takes so many tools to do any job, and the residue of junk that develops around the area builds up. There are clues of all the different things that I am doing while remodeling a bathroom. I don't understand why the clothes hanger is in the arrangement but all the rest makes sense to me. I am ninety percent done with the plumbing, I have started the dry wall, and all the major problems that needed to be solve are done. The rest is purely cosmetic work to get the finished look as if it didn't take much time or thought to accomplish it. The water does run down the shower drain, and doesn't puddle anywhere. The drain did finally get aligned to the hole of the shower and it does all work. The technical stuff is out of the way, and yet some of the cosmetic will be a challenge. Take a thirty year old bathroom and make it look clean, nice, and well designed.
I definitely will have some tools to put away.

14 comments:

Linda said...

Very impressive! My husband is a good amateur carpenter, but he wouldn't dream of tackling a bathroom. It must be the American pioneering spirit!

claude said...

You can go to my home, if you want, we want to remodel one of our both bathrooms. My husband has any tool necessary for this work. His tools are hung on a wall of his small home workshp. Thanks to put them back after the work is done.
I think to see in your arrangement a beautiful ashtray, no !

L. D. said...

Yes it is an ash try. I don't know where it came from but it was probably bought as a trinket while traveling. My dad smoked years ago and sort of quit and mom never smoked so she may have bought it as a candy dish.

Alan Burnett said...

I don't think I could recognise a wrench, never mind find you one. And no, I am not proud of it.

Gigi Ann said...

LOL...I understand the feeling. We bought a house in July that was build in 1880. We are renovating it, but we have the help of a carpenter and his helpers, but they make mistakes too. Some of his helpers I don't think know what they are doing, I think they are just there for the paycheck at the end of the week. However, it is beginning to come together and looking pretty good. We haven't don't much in the bathroom yet, except taken the bathtub out. I think the plumbing is done.

I hope you find your wench, sorry I meant wrench, soon! Have a great week-end.

Sunny said...

My husband is a builder, for a minute I thought you took a picture at my house!
Remodeling a bathroom is no easy task!
Sunny :)

Jimmy said...

The only thing I can identify and use from your photo is the ash tray.

The Pink Geranium or Jan's Place said...

I could only wish my husband would finish what he started in our bathroom... I will have to bring in help! Good for you tackling and (almost) completing such a huge job. Sow us pictures when you are done!

The Retired One said...

Just don't forget to hang the toilet paper hanger!
ha We are renovating the house across the street which is over 100 years old and never had ANY bathrooms in it when it was built. We are putting in a bath and 1/2, but thank goodness we hired plumbers to do the plumbing. We are putting up tongue and groove in the bathrooms, so the cosmetics will be easier than drywall. But it is so nice when you can sit back and admire it all coming together!

~mel said...

Cool pic.

Anonymous said...

If you not too tired come here when your done--but really we never done there is always more to do!!
vickie

Sunny said...

Be sure to stop by my blog.
Sunny :)

Far Side of Fifty said...

Looks like you have all the tools to do a great job! Drywall..we have all tongue and groove pine, and the bath upstairs is 4 x8 sheets of beadboard, I did want one room I could paint! We call that sheetrock..something else, it is expensive, heavy, and messy..there is an art to being a sheetrocker! Good luck with your project, having water go down and out is a good thing! :)

Prospero said...

Looks like the top of my desk.

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