The Shower Project

On July 27th of this year, Pete announced he would be starting our Shower Project.  The shower in our master bathroom was getting quite old and gross, so we had decided to go ahead and remove the fiberglass insert and create a new, tiled shower area with a frameless glass door.  (This was actually the scaled-back version of what Pete wanted to do... which involved knocking down walls....)

Anyway, after giving it some thought and doing some research, Pete concluded he could handle this project on his own, and it would take "approximately 10 days."

I am happy to report that the Shower Project is now, as of yesterday, October 10th (still 2011) COMPLETE.  The bad news to all this was that it took slightly longer than his original estimate.  And it also cost slightly more than his original estimate.  And it took many more trips to Lowe's than originally estimated.  (This, after all, was just the beginning of it....)  As it turned out, the tiling part was the easiest and quickest element of the whole thing.

But the good news was throughout the process we had the opportunity to get to know several of the very skilled men in our area (plumber, handyman, tiling expert), who came in to rescue us when unexpected things kept happening (as they always do!).  The bad news was some of these very honest, hardworking men did need to be paid.  But the good news was they all gave us major discounts.

The other bad news was that all 6 of us had to use one shower/bathroom for 3 months.  The shower curtain in there now needs to be replaced from over-use.  (And THAT is the extent of any renovations planned for that room in the foreseeable future).  But the good news was this was good practice for us -- to start getting out of our "comfort zone" maybe.

And the very good news, of course, is that the new shower is DONE, and it's beautiful!  I'm very happy with the outcome:

 The floor that our friend/tiling expert ended up helping Pete with (He helped slope the shower pan -- Pete did all the tiling work himself):

It all turned out great.  I'm very proud of Pete's skills!

And if I have to have a "window" that goes from the back of the shower into my closet that's only a little bit closed with drywall at the moment, that's a small price to pay, I guess.

What a project!