April showers bring May showers

Well, it's raining here again - more on that later. Only worked at the house Sunday this weekend because there was much to do at William St. It started pouring this afternoon at 2pm and rain began entering the basement again. I moved a lot of things and started working on that but that's kinda boring so i'll update what's done at Ronalds:

Here is a view of the new downstairs bathroom floor. It's pretty much complete as is the shower floor. You can see Carrie's concept in full-effect. It looks even better in person. The paint color for the walls will be similar to the blue you see in the detail squares. There will be a yellow band around the shower that matches the center of those squares.

Here is a closeup of the detail square.

Here's what the upstairs bathroom looks like at the moment. The floor is in and grouted and the shower base is completed. The denshield backing has been placed on the tub and the tiling for that and the shower will begin tomorrow. They also have to tidy up the drywall in here tomorrow but it's getting very close.

Here is a closeup of the pebble-tile shower floor upstairs. This is also a Carrie idea that turned out really nicely. The pebbles match the gray tile flooring in the main room.

Here is a cast-iron grate that I purchased for the air diffuser in the kitchen. Now that the floor is complete, I put the grate in.

Here is what the kitchen floor now looks like - much better than the green vinyl flooring of yesteryear.

Today I finally got off my Duff and installed the brown aluminum storm door I purchased to replace the total crap one that was on the back door to the stairs. It took a long time (getting storm doors nice and tight in 1913 houses can be tricky) but it's pretty well good to go now and looks a zillion times better.

Here is the fancy lockset I installed on the door and will put on the other 2 storm doors. These are lockable with a keyed outdoor entry which is nice for locking up but not using the main door.

I have to take a bunch of stuff to the recyclers now. I'll try to do a basement update at some point.

We also got new appliances this week. The stove is in the house and the fridge and the dishwasher will be this week. Also coming up this week:

Black Dirt, Regrading and Seeding the backyard.

Tiling the showers in both bathrooms.

Drywall finishing up for the upstairs hall, bathroom and the downstairs bathroom ceiling.

The week after this: hardwood floor refinishing completion, installation of new wood flooring upstairs and beginning of the garage construction.