Master Bath Project: Day 10 and Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone. This weekend has been really busy for us and we accomplished a lot.

This week our blinds that we ordered from J.C. Penny arrived and Saturday we got around to installing them. We ordered Bali pleated shades for all the windows. The front bedroom and the walk in closet received top down shades and all the others were normal operating shades. In the master bedroom we went with the blackout shades. I got tired of trying to take a nap in the middle of the day and it being so damn bright in that bedroom.

Today we finished placing the Durrock and it feels like finally it is becoming a bathroom again. Something about having open walls that is just really depressing. No, the pictures are not upside down. Don't ask me why we hung the sheets with the wording upside down. It just worked out that way, funny. I will say I am not sure if I would ever want to buy a re-bar framed house again. It is just so hard to re-frame anything.

Next up is to mesh tape and mud it with thin set. Then apply the redguard and finally tile.

New Windows

Monday we finally had the remaining windows installed. If you remember we we had the first series installed May 2010 and we used the same company, Vinyl Masters.

It really is nice to have the bars removed and a clear view of the canyon. Now we need to shop of real window treatment and get rid of our "temporary" paper blinds.

They were able to save the original center window from the breakfast nook and dining room for which we are grateful. We are not sure what we will do with them but I am sure we can come up with something nice.

We also need to fix the outside trim and paint over where the bars were.

Office

Office

Office Before and after

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom before and after

Breakfast nook

Breakfast nook and dining room windows

New Windows

Last Monday we received 4 new windows, we have to order them in series to keep the costs down. Windows are not cheap!! So below are the pictures, the security bars were removed but they leave the aluminum frame and the new windows encase the old frame. Seems straight forward. We are very happy with the look and the outside color we chose matches beautifully.

The aluminum window looks like a cheap motel window.

Had to grind the safety bars off.

The House used to be painted green.

One window had a crack so they have to re-order and replace the glass.

I Have already fixed the holes and repainted where the security bars were but am too lazy to take another picture :)