new plumbing, new floor

so today we have spent the majority of the day (since 7am till now) working on the plumbing and then putting in the new floor in the laundry room. james has put in more than 10 new lines of pex plumbing. crawling around under the house, disconnecting the old pipes then putting the pex in. not. fun. ugh. but, now its done and we wont have to worry so much about pipes freezing this winter. even if they do, they wont break. pex is pretty cool stuff. i cant believe i just said that about plumbing materials. ive learned a LOT about plumbing the last few days, believe me. now i actually know what happens when you turn the tap on. kinda cool.


so then the floor in the laundry room


we went from this:

to this:

were heading over to jeff and lisas for dinner and s.h.o.w.e.r.s. im soooo looking forward to that. oh, and our daily stop at home depot. bought to much pex so have about $100 to return and then need to get some more valve thingys. (i said i understand how plumbing works, not what the names of the pieces are!)

james has really been doing so much work these last few days! he is soooo dirty. here is is testing out the new floor at the end of a long work day:

plumbing stuff

so today we realized....wait the me part of we realized.... that the plumbing stuff is going to take a lot longer than we...i mean i...thought. turns out it was not a simple thing to redo ALL THE PLUMBING in our tiny house. oh. so james and i have made several trips to home depot and puchased a million miles of pex (the new tubing stuff) and various clamps and valves and other boring things.

all i can say is that thank elvis james knows how to do all this plumbing stuff 'cause he is saving us a lot of dough by doing it all himself!

in other news, we do also have this awesome tub filler! we go it off craigslist last year for $200! the cheapest i can find it now is on amazon for $631. score one for the wilsons!

the higlight of the day was our morning break when ava and lisa came over and ava fed the chickens some lettuce, green beans and blueberries. turns out the ladies love blueberries! good times!

i heart this tile

ok, so you cant really see how awesome this tile is in the above photo. we found it at tile for less over on 122nd/halsey. they are really nice people, have fair prices, and tons of helpful tips for first time tilers like me and james.

this is the tile we are using for the chair rail. it goes really well with the vanity mirror, which has little dots around the edge. love.

breakfast of champions...errr home remodelers!

ok, up and at 'em! we were up working at about 700am this morning, so needed to make a hearty breakfast. (side note, if you do not own one of these $19.99 griddles you should get one. i make fajitas, breakfast, garden burgers, everything on this baby!)

james is building a new wall in the laundry room and im heading out to put another coat of paint on the clawfoot tub.

we're back and on a roll!

hey, friends! whew, after a year of not doing the remodel, here we go! were starting with the laundry room (which is connected to the bathroom). james put up the tin tiles like we have in the bathroom yesterday and today we started on the fabric tiles. ive been working on these (with help from lisa, for quite awhile, so its so cool to finally have them going up! i love how it is turning out!



here is what the laundry room looked like after we started ripping off the yucky wallpaper. ugh. outside the window there is the building we are remodeling into the library. thats a whole other post!








and here is what the fabric tiles on the wall are looking like. im really liking it!