A Coffee To Go: The Never Ending (Bathroom) Story

We're moving along with our bathroom remodel, and have made some good progress the past week and a half. My dad came down to help us last weekend with some electrical work. We bought two light fixtures that will hang above two recessed vanities, so we needed our current single junction box to disappear and become two. Dad also installed another outlet near the second sink.

In the midst of this progress, we had a setback with our tiling. We hired a tile guy, who subsequently disappeared after we gave him a deposit. After trying to stop the payment on our check (the check had been cashed before the stop payment went through) and calling the girlfriend of the tile guy numerous times, in addition to calling our tile guy over 100 times during the week he was MIA, we finally had to take matters into our own hands by the end of the week. After several heated telephone conversations with the tile guy, we went to the Cary Police Department and had the officer in the fraud department contact our tile guy. To make a long story short, our money was returned to us in the form of a certified bank check on Christmas Eve.

Now with that episode behind us, we are focused on doing as much as we feel comfortable with. Obviously we can't do plumbing work, so we had a plumber come on Christmas Eve to replace some pipes and stub in the water main lines to the sink and shower. Afterwards, we replaced some moldy installation and framed in where the two recessed vanities will go in between the studs in the wall. Luckily, we've found another tile guy - a man who does business with my father-in-law who has provided us with his tile guy for the week. Our tile is our (fingers crossed) last major hurdle. After we get the tile installed, we'll paint the ceiling and walls, bring the plumber back in to finish up the plumbing and begin installing the fun stuff - faucets, mirrors, lights and decorations. And oh yeah, being able to take a shower again in the master bathroom and putting our clothes back in the closet (that is, after we get our closet system installed).