Yesterday we closed on our new home. (Happy, happy, joy, joy....) We celebrated by mowing the grass and pulling weeds all afternoon.
Big dog oversaw our work from her hangout on the porch.
So can you guess what our first action this morning will be? (This was planned well in advance, I might add.) It is not to move in anything, or start cleaning stuff. Those are way too predictable.
Noooooo, our first to-do is to tear out the shower in the master bathroom. Mind you, it is a perfectly good shower - it's not leaking, no nasty-funk-I-can't-get-clean, not even some hideous old gold sparkly tile (which we've actually lived with before.) It is a simple, plain fiberglass shower stall. Its only defect is it was too short and the backspray from the shower head had peeled away the paint around the top of the stall. Instead of merely replacing the shower head and fixing the peeling paint, we opted to tear it out. Because we are really good at tearing stuff up and we had a lot of practice on our last home - there's not much we can't take out. Putting stuff back...not so much. But prybars, hammers, chisels - we own 'em and we're not afraid to use 'em.
To our credit, we do have a plan: we've lined up a contractor and selected the tile we'd like to use. Hopefully the new shower design will fix the peeling paint problem once and for all...and give us a slightly larger and totally nicer shower in an otherwise gorgeous (and HUGE) bathroom.
When the tear-out is done, all that's left to do today is to have the carpets stretched, take down the old curtain rods and spackle over a few nail holes before Mr. Official heads off to the Friday night race. We have a wedding to attend on Saturday in LA (Lower Alabama to the uninitiated), and Easter festivities on Sunday.
Starting Monday, work on the new shower stall will begin, while middle child and I are busy wielding paint rollers and brushes. Five rooms in five days - easy peasy.
THEN we can begin the normal activities one does when one buys a house. Like moving our possessions in and getting settled.
Happy remodeling!
