Home updates

Miguel the contractor arrived promptly last Thursday to finish tiling our bathroom floor. His final tasks were cleaning the surface and grout, reattaching the moldings, and hooking up the toilet. The floors look fantastic, if I do say so myself. I am so happy with the outcome. I am even happier to have our second toilet back in service. You never realize how much you need it until it’s gone.
Though I’ve found it quite a challenging task to take photos of our tiny bathroom, here is the finished floor.

Next on the list of house updates is installing our hardwoods throughout the family room and “hallways.” I put quotes around the word ‘hallways’ because they are only about 2’ x 2’ in size, so they just barely count.
This Saturday hubby spent about an hour and a half ripping out our disgusting carpet. He was so efficient with this that I think he should do it as a part time job. They charge a lot for this task at Lowes (almost $300 for our small room). Hubby could make a killing.
So with carpet removed, we began configuring the room. Nothing looked better than the initial arrangement, so we’ll go back to that once the floors are in.
I thought you might enjoy a Before shot of the family room, including messily arranged furniture and cement floors.

Notice the 6-pound weights on the coffee tables. I sit in front of the television and pretend to lift weights. Usually I do 3 sets of 15 reps before I forget that I’m supposed to continue. It’s a lovely little faux workout.
I’ll post our After photo on Wednesday after the installation!