Living the Slow life in North Carolina
We still need to stain the unpainted wood and get the new plumbing hardware hooked up on the tub. It’s somewhere between Nevada and North Carolina right now. There are four new ceiling fans in the house too. Next job: replacing the falling apart cabinet doors and drawer fronts in the kitchen with real wood. Then we will be finished with remodeling! YAY!
Across the street
Old and new
In honor of the Marietta Christmas Parade today, I wore my t-shirt from several years ago.
Cracks
The old faucet, which is actually a fairly new replica of the old old faucet, to be replaced by a fancy schmancy new bronze faucet.
Some leaves make permanent shadows…
View of the latest bathroom work – joist, subflooring, plumbing, floor repaired, insulation added.
Hitchin’ a ride…
I encounter this grey and white cat a lot. No one knows who it belongs to. Today I caught it hunting twice on my walk to work. I warned the squirrel the first time. Shirley Squirrely was directly in this dude’s sights. I caught him again after something else in the leaves, this time with camera in hand. I don’t feel too bad for him now because s/he seems well fed, now that I’ve gotten up close.
The gutting of the bathroom has mostly been accomplished. The hole in the floor is where the clawfoot bathtub was. The tub was moved to the kitchen. The date on the bottom of it is 1921.
Photos of the original bathroom, which is probably a pile of plaster and tile being loaded into a trailer as I write this.
I should have taken a before photo of the clawfoot tub, which we are going to refinish and keep if it is in good enough shape. There is tile around it so we won’t know its condition until the tile is knocked out. You can see some of the cracked wall reflected in the mirror (the mirror will stay), but it doesn’t really show just how bad those walls are. It’s funny because one of the things I loved the most when we bought this house was this bathroom. I didn’t know at the time that it was literally falling to pieces under that tub and tile.
slowly she turned 