Happy Everything!!

Dana is a man who can do just about anything. Just call him Superman!

Our new house is very nice and we are enjoying a lot about it--the trees in the yard, the extra bedroom, lots of space---but the tiles in the bathrooms are not our favorite. So, the day after Dana was done with tests and classes and office work, he came home and sat for a few minutes. After that long period of rest and slothfulness, he got up and took a sledge hammer, a drill and some other tools into our bathroom and busted up the tile, sending white dust flying through the air to settle on his hair, the counter tops, brushes and towels...and even into our bedroom, though the bathroom door was closed. After lots of scraping and bags and bags of busted tile and dust were taken to the street, he looked around the bathroom and made a seemingly small decision. He decided he would like to re-texture the walls and repaint them before he put the new tile down. All of the walls in the house were repainted before the former owners put the house on the market, but the bathroom walls were pretty banged up and sad looking due to some drywall coming off when the wallpaper was taken down. AND, not all of the wallpaper made it off of the walls. This had begun to peel and some of the paint had begun to chip off of the walls in our bathroom. This seemingly small decision avalanched into a huge do-it-yourself project!!!

So, Dana scraped the parts of the wall that needed scraping. After he did this, he decided that the mirror should come down and maybe changed a bit. The frame around the mirror was in sad shape...lots of chips and scratches. He textured the walls (which was a new experience for him), put a new frame around the mirror, and then we went to visit Mandy's parents while the plaster dried on the walls.

We got back a few days after Christmas and Dana, with E's help, painted the bathroom. E got to paint the wall behind the toilet. At one point he said, "Uh-oh!"

Dana, thinking E might have painted the cabinet on accident, said, "What happened?"

"Look, dad" he said. "I accidentally painted a dinosaur." And, sure enough, there was a green dinosaur on the wall.

here is Dana's dad telling us what to do next---ha, ha, ha

After the paint dried, Dana and his dad cut and put down the new tile, installed new light switches and outlets, put in a new light and new towel bars, and put up new baseboards, as well as laying down a new transition/threshold piece of marble between our room and the bathroom. Dana then retouched the frame around the mirror and the baseboards with paint, and he and his dad re-installed the toilet.

Dana, also in his role as Superman, cut down one of our pine trees (which landed about 5--or less--feet from our house), painted the light fixtures in our other bathrooms, replaced several more light switches and light plates and outlets, installed a new garbage disposal and put our new microwave above the stove in our kitchen.

So...Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday, Anniversary, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day to me!!!

p.s. I love our new bathroom!!!! and new microwave!!!!