EXTREME MAKEOVER

When I rearrange furniture in our home I usually get a lot of grief from DH. 

One time he went so far as to walk outside and check to make sure he was at the right house.

But when I came home and found the basement toilet in the laundry room 

I wondered about his ideas in home décor.

 With the help of Beavis he’d also taken a saw to the walls of the bathroom
and ripped out the floor.  Maybe this was a good thing.  
It already looked better than the 

thirty year-old blue Formica shower and green walls.

New drywall went up.  We lightened up the dark walls with a 

coat of semi-gloss white, and the tub was re-plumbed for a different faucet.

We had new vinyl flooring installed to replace the old flooring 

which had a big burned spot that no one ever owned up to.

We got a new light fixture since we found rotten wires when we removed the old rusty one. 

I like how it looks like the guys are doing some kind of dance in this photo.

 Then a ceramic saw was set up in my laundry room.

  I was really, really upset that I had to suspend all washing and ironing for a few days. 

(Yeah, right)

 The guy who did such a fine job installing the tile 

in our master bath brought back his expertise.

The tile went together like a big puzzle.

 In no time at all we had a handsome shower stall.

 The new faucet was installed.

 The old vanity and paper holder were replaced.

 The tile backsplash matched the shower and the medicine cabinet matched the vanity.

 A minor slip-up installing the original porcelain fixture

 lead to the purchase of a new one which was more efficient anyway.

In our endeavors to lighten the dark basement room 

we ended up with almost everything colored copy-paper white. 

So I brought in some accent rugs and made curtains to match. 

The dark curtains put the room right back in the gloom.

I replaced them with lighter and more sheer curtains.  Much better.

Is this not the finest Valentine’s Day present ever?!