I am starting to get bored… seems like all I see for days is dust now. Can’t wait for the decorative stuff…

Dilemma – my mill worker promised me the cabinet for today or tomorrow and the actual cabinet maker came to my house today to re-check the measurements and he now says earliest Friday! That means the tiling can’t be completed until that is in, so that is a delay! Was frustrated about that – we’ll see what they come up with for me, but they say the spraying of the wood on the cabinet is what takes so long. So I ask – why didn’t they start when I asked them to then?!

In this photo is the start of the laundry chute – this is very exciting! The laundry room right under the bathroom is being fixed up too to accommodate this feature – Yay! – no more hampers!!

I was out all day but came home to finished drywall and a sub-floor. I cannot lie, it was nice to get out before the contractors came in and back after they left. And they’re back tomorrow, but I’m happy there isn’t any lag time. I do want the convenience of my main bathroom back! Can’t wait… getting anxious!

Drywall and pipes – woo hoo!!

Tomorrow, Sunday, they are working again. Sweet!

Some drywall went up today, a frame for the back of the shower is done, and the exterior wall is all done! I can finally see progress… along with some other not so noticeable things.

Embarrassed to say, but I spent more time looking for the knobs for my cabinet than anything else in the bathroom – I just couldn’t decide! In the end, I browsed the net and found some great knobs on the Anthropologie website so I took a drive over there tonight and bought them! I only needed two and thankfully I had shopped for so long on-line because my husband was with me and I started to change my mind… there are so many gorgeous ones at that store! Of course my husband didn’t have patience, so I went with my choice from the net.

And believe it or not, I told myself it can always be changed if I don’t love it… imagine that after all those hours pondering!!!!

Thankfully next week I am much busier with real clients. Should help me make any more decisions a bit quicker for myself. But in the end, isn’t it the minor details that make the perfect space?! I’d like to think so.

Well, not much to report on the look so far. Still the ‘bones’ stuff so looks similar. Had a nice lunch on the deck with the contractors and could have chatted forever, but they had to get back to work.

We did, however, need to change the lay-out today to accommodate the laundry chute I wanted. The original plan had the chute passing right through a cold air return and it would have been a lot of work to change that. So we re-designed. It wasn’t too late so I stopped production on the cabinet as the new one needs to be a different size. We’ll still get the same lovely walnut door for it, just now slightly bigger for a different spot in the room.

All good at the end of day 4.

Ian is finally excited about the bathroom! He didn’t even want this renovation and now he is more into it than I am, all excited about the big tub to be and the art deco sconces I found yesterday. This is all good!

Today the wiring was done, some plumbing re-routing and the ceiling insulation. The bones!

The big dilemma today, however, was that the 24″ door that Ian and I painstakingly shlepped from Hamilton, stripped, sanded and stained can’t be used. It is actually too big! We wanted a piece of our old house in Hamilton to be a part of this house, but the tub proved to be 6″ too long.

I spent hours with my cabinet maker, going over the possibilities of using the door, perhaps cutting it down, but it still wasn’t going to fit. Not with the pedestal sink I chose, and Ian’s nice long tub. So, I sat and re-designed the storage cupboard and am actually now more excited about the new door than the old door! I love what we came up with and ended up going with a gorgeous walnut, solid wood door. Happy!… you’ll see so stay posted!

Our 24″ gorgeous gum-wood oak door so lovingly re-finished will have to go to some other use… I’m sure I’ll find a project in the not to distant future to use it for. Time will tell on the old door, but for now, the bathroom is what’s important and it was a good day.

You can see the dust – it’s only day 2 and I’m already tired of the mess! But at least the gutting is done. The concrete on the walls needing the jack hammer was a first for my contractor! – serious stuff with those original 1958 tiles!

Shopped today for my bathroom – found some hooks, the tp holder, towel bar and a recessed medicine cabinet with mirror that wasn’t $3000! Thanks Taps! Ginger’s had some gorgeous ones too, but they were the ones at the $3000 price point – ridiculous! Sorry Ginger’s. Some lovely stuff, but seriously? There were some at the Ginger’s store at $1200 – seemed like a bargain next to the $3000 ones. I paid just over $300 for mine – nice and simple with mirrors on the inside too and the perfect size.

The best part of my shopping today was finding the wall sconces. I had a vision and there they were at The Door Store! I love that store. They had just two sitting way at the back – vintage deco covers but freshly re-wired to chrome bases, which is exactly what I wanted – they were just waiting for me!

Decided to change my idea for the chair rail tile – will go with a simple bullnose tile instead. Not as interesting but saved me a bit of money. It is, however, more practical, so that’s what I’ll remember when I think back and say I should have waited…

Tomorrow is day 3.

The demolition is still not complete, but at least they figured out the concrete and got through most of it. Tomorrow the floors, also with 2″ of concrete… hmm, might have been slated as a bomb shelter originally.

Check out those dangling pot lights – no wonder the bulkhead had to be so big! Ginormeous!

Got all the missing pieces for the shower faucet system and just waiting for one back-ordered piece. Phew!

Dilemma – the chair rail I wanted is 8 weeks out for ordering and the tiling can’t be done without it, so do I wait or find a different solution? My inkling is to find a different solution… will keep you posted.

Dust everywhere, but only one broken thing… so far! My perfume bottle fell and broke in the adjoining room, luckily on concrete for easy clean up. That room smells wonderful… will have to go buy a new bottle.

Tomorrow, more shopping for the little things.

Today I live through noise, dirt and mess, but the workers have been great so far. They covered all my ‘stuff’, locked away all my plants in my office and closed all the doors with towels at the bottom to minimize the dust. Very thoughtful.

By this afternoon 4 guys will be in there demolishing, but so far, they are perplexed. The concrete on these 1958 tiles are wicked! The jack hammer is working overtime and still not cutting it. When the big guy gets back this afternoon, hopefully he will have a better solution.

We decided to save the old retro lights – one has a heater built in to it, but it’s a little scary so we’ll just re-use the light part.

All the new pieces for the bathroom have been delivered and I have a bathtub sitting in my living room right now. Very exciting! But going through the boxes, it seems there are some pieces missing… will have to get onto that as soon as I go through it all with the main contractor this afternoon.

All fun and part of the process. I’ll be back tomorrow with another update.

I was in Vegas last week and naturally visited many hotels, lobbies, and restaurants, all with my critical eye to its design. There is so much flamboyance there – it’s kind of what you expect. But when I finally made it over to the new Aria hotel, I fell in love. Simple clean organic lines define this hotel. This kind of design is so creative – I just loved it!

Here I have a photo of a restaurant – the movement in the structure was just so inspiring – bentwood at it’s best!