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The bathroom in the basement is finished!

Four months after the start of it all, it is finally completed.

  (Toilet, toilet paper holder)

In June, the plumbers came out to dig up the floor, lay the pipes under the floor and behind the walls, cement the floor, replace old pipes and put a gas line outside for a new grill. 

My step-dad did the rest.  He said 3 weeks.  He’s like a contractor; we have learned to interpret his time frame as 3 or 4 times as much as the quote.  Granted, it’s weekend warrior time, not daily.

(Light over sink and mirror)

What took the longest was mudding and sanding the drywall.  The framing and hanging the drywall didn’t take that long.  As his assistant, I thought that all went rather quickly, but the mudding and sanding he did on his own and he is a perfectionist.  It took weeks of doing it a little at a time.

(This is, obviously, the tile floor)

Once that was done, I did all the painting. 

(This is the shower)

Yesterday, the plumbers came to connect all the fixtures.  We now have a functioning bathroom. 

  (Sink and mirror)

We have to get towel racks and little things like that, but for the most part, it is all set.  Shower curtain and all.  I know you can’t tell from the photo, but the shower curtain liner is blue, like the walls, and comes through the square cutouts in the brown curtain. 

  (Shower curtain)

It all looks so nice! 

Now, I can get everything else cleaned and organized.  YAY!

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