Before the afters

You know those events you've been meaning to write about for months but for some reason never got around to it?  Well, this is one of them.

Fortunately there wasn't much that needed to be done to our home when we bought it. One biggie though was the basement shower. It had mold issues and needed to come out ASAP.  It was actually kind of a good thing because instead of the homeowner  replacing the shower before we closed on the home, we bartered with some furniture, of which we had very little. So it all worked out.  Back in December I hired a great demolition company to rip this out:

Yes, you are seeing correctly That is a urninal. We also have one in the kids' bathroom, too. Highly recommend them! :)

here is my hardworking crew:

(Notice Kyle wearing his Body Bugg?  That's what I got him for Christmas. Aren't I sweet?)

Okay...truth be told that demolition company would be my husband and his two friends. They are really good friends because they didn't get paid to smash my walls and rip tile out and haul it to the front yard.  That was just free fun.  Well, more like really dirty, hard icky work that took some time. Not nearly as long as it did to chip out the one-inch tile from 1983 ('73? '63? Shoot could have been '53!) in our Chicago bathroom, but still, tile is tile. It's awesome they still consider us friends after this project.

Once the demo was done, our friend Brad did the tile work and he did an amazing job! I actually prefer to use this new shower now. I feel like I am at some getaway spa when I use it.  You'll see why....when I post the picture (tomorrow maybe?)