This bathroom was an atrocity. It mocked me every time I walked by. It had not been updated since the 80's. Occasionally, time stamping something in the 80's is good, like music and women's fashion for instance. But not linolium. There is a reason why "linolium" sounds so close to "Lenin". It's because it is evil and means you harm!

So, me, $700 dollars, and my new fantasticy leather tool belt that makes me look like a John Wayne gun slinger, and two weeks of 4 hour a day work (save saturdays, where it was like 9 hours), I transformed that stinking suppository of old people buns and broken dreams into a tumbled marble Romanesque temple to the nature of man and his greatness!

I tore up that foul leninoleum! I ripped out the nasty sink where so many elderly germs were placed, installed cement board, patched wall holes, hung a lenin (there he is again!) weave wall paper, mortored, tiled, grouted, cleaned, installed the sink with brass faucet ( bathrub brass replacement will follow), reinstalled the toilet after raising up the drain pipe an inch for the sake of the tile and then I closed the door. I felt victorious because it will obviously increase our home value. Plus I now feel more confident in my ability to refurbish our kitchen!
Mind you, if you are basically handy and are gifted about the hands like I can be (just ask the wife....grrrrr), a professional looking bathroom (or tiling job) takes some time, patience, and a solution oriented mind.

This was my first tiling job ever and I feel as though I owned it. I am advancing a strategy for the master bedroom to make a steamroom with a sunken bathtub. I can do that!

Obviously it has been some time since I have posted. Know that is it not because I am indolent, feeling guilty for not working on the property and thus not posting to hide myself like a shadowy fiend! No, I have not posted because I have been working too hard. With Janet preparing to spray babies all over our house in a matter of weeks which will cause her to be out of the fight for a few days at least, I decided I had better prep a fence around the yard and complete the guest bathroom.

The picture above is of a large and vile reed plant that is doomed. It is deep rooted and so I burned it. The yard was collateral damage. The plant did not go away all the way, so I proceeded to build my fence anyway and I will kill that infernal hellbush some other day. I think the end result fence is a good look. It is Atlas proof... for now.

More later.