New Year Construction
April nor I got any Legos for Christmas so the next logical step to occupy our time (away from that climbing addiction) is to tear up our house a little more. The next couple of items on our long list is our main house (as opposed to the guest house) bathroom and the re-building of the shade structure over our spa. Seems like a lot huh? YES! So, we hired some help. Thanks to a friend’s good recommendation, the bathroom project is underway by a really nice guy we can trust will get the job done, for the right price and to our precise level of detail. As for the shade structure, well, April and I took on that job ourselves. Check out our progress…
Remember the “porch project?” We sure do. In the background of the first picture is a nice reminder to me that our major porch re-building is done. The picture is also scary because here we are again, painting round wooden posts. Luckily these posts have nothing to do with the porch. They will be used for the shade structure over the spa.
In the back of this picture you can see the original shade roof over the spa. Dale’s hands frame it well. In a monsoon storm over the summer that entire roof fell! Luckily nothing was damaged and nobody was underneath it! Now it’s time for us engineers to overbuild it so that it stands the test of time.
Here is a picture taken in bad lighting of what our bathroom looked like before work started.
Here is a view of the floor looking into the shower. We thought the tiles were really ugly in the shower but regardless of how they looked, they were totally impossible to clean.
April looks into the bathroom and thinks, “So much for those tiles in the shower. Bye bye.” Or, “What did we just do to our perfectly functioning bathroom.
Our chance to put a light in the dark ‘closet of a shower’ that once existed.
The window in our shower before the demolition.
The window during demolition. Notice the rotten window ledge.
The window, starting to take shape.
We hope to keep up with posting some pictures of our progress. In the meantime I better get back to training. We’re off to Hueco again, soon….
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