Bathroom/Hall Reno DONE

Newly painted hallway, with one less door on the left. 

 IT IS DONE.  We about killed ourselves trying to get it finished and the upstairs all cleaned up and presentable.  Will's cousins from Dubai arrive on Sunday, bringing 4 friends, so all the bedrooms need to be ready.  And of course all the bedrooms are covered in construction dust.  But, that is not what you want hear about or see.

We have created a new corridor/closet area in the back of the house before you get to the back bedroom that just makes sense now.  No longer are there random cupboards barely hanging on the wall.  It is a fresh, smooth wall (that we get to decorate now!) as well as one double-doored storage closet and a single closet for the back bedroom.

The bathroom itself looks amazing.  It is huge!  It is bright!  It is spacious!  I admit that I am a bit anxious about how it will wear, because I don't trust the workmanship of the contractor.  It just means that we will have to be diligent about possibly regrouting and definitely resealing the tile on a regular basis.

First impression through the doorway

Shower stall, complete with rubber ducky

Linen closet and the back of the bathroom door

Pedestal sink and a fun Ikea cart that adds color and shelving for guests' stuff

an organized linen closet (we will see how long that lasts)

The tub, with Daffy Duck

Our DC shower curtain, that has both our house and my condo on it. 

We just are dumbfounded at the new amount of space in the bathroom, the look, the fixtures. We are just really pleased with the results. It is truly an incredible difference.  And what is even better: we did the finishing work, so we feel that this is really our bathroom; that we can take credit for some of the transformation.  And, even better than that: it is the last major renovation project in the house. (knock on wood). We still have to paint a few rooms, replace a carpet, maybe refinish the floors upstairs. That list of "to-do's" is nothing like it was a few years, even a few months ago. 

The bath. 

And, lest we forget what it used to look like, here is the bathroom BEFORE.  So glad that it doesn't look like that anymore.