too hot to handle!

Sarah flew off the handle and ordered this online to go with our awesome vintage door.  Door photo coming soon.

green pennies & almond toast

Look Wylma it's our brand new green penny tile!  If we had a penny for every tile, we would have... almost fourteen dollars!

This tile is so money!

Needs grout though... that's coming soon.

Our back bathroom wall, soon to keep things waterproof behind our tub and shower rail.

Gettin' ready to start painting the inside.  We have several colors but the main one is Sarah's favorite, "almond toast".  In "eggshell" finish... sounds kind of like a yummy breakfast huh?

I was trying to take a stealth photo of the guys working but the flash went off... busted!

Some toasty corners!

this guy fixes tubs, AND sings celine dion

Here's the guy from Square Deal Plumbing standing proudly next to our vintage tub he just finished re-porcelaining.  When we first pulled up to the shop, he was singing some Celine Dion song really loud (I think that's who it was).  It was very entertaining.  He was also rebuilding a pickup truck engine and turning it into something that looked like it would be driven by Mad Max in Beyond the Thunderdome.

Who wants to take the first bath in this mean machine?

Nobody wants to take a bath in this mean machine.  You may remember our tub in its previous, super-mean state, here on our front walkway.  An amazing transformation!

suntan sink and penny tile

There it is! Our very own 1950's pedestal sink in the shade "Sun Tan"! (It says so on the stamp underneath the sink, what a cute name for a sink color). We found it this past weekend while rummaging at Freeway Building Materials in East LA.  It's a really great salvage yard full of fun stuff, including a giant wizard statue that Daniel found out was "not for sale"... oh well, I guess we didn't need a giant wizard anyway.

We've also been working on finding tile for the bathroom. The above picture is of the "penny tile" that arrived on our doorstep tonight for the bathroom floor. It's called penny tile because each tile is just the size of a penny. It's an older tile design that isn't too popular these days, so we had to special order it. Luckily delivery didn't take too long. And the picture makes it look a bit more green than it is in real life... but you get the idea. On the tile note, we just returned from a midnight run to Home Depot (seriously! they kicked us out because they were trying to close!) We purchased tile for the back wall of the bathroom as well, but I don't have a picture to post of that yet. It's still sitting in the back of Daniel's Jeep, ready to be taken over to Laveta tomorrow. Finally, a picture of Wylma in the rain today.. just because. Thanks for reading!

drywall... it's better than wetwall

 

We finally have a real ceiling again! Although we will miss the cathedral ceilings we once had, it's nice not to see the sky through our roof anymore. Especially now that it's started raining again!

 

Here's the corner where the chimney once was... it's all ready to be filled with Daniel's records now! Well, almost ready....  

Action has slowed down on the remodeling right now with the rainfall and the wait for the "mud" they put on the drywall to dry. Thus, this post is kinda dull.... but what can you expect from a post about drywall I guess!

buildin' it up...

We're not using just any old drywall... this is NEXT GENERATION drywall!
It's drywall from the future.  We time-travelled to the future and brought it back!

This typewriter we found in the water heater room, though, is definitely from the past.  I think William Burroughs used it to write Naked Lunch.

Guard that plaster tub with your life, Wylms!

Be sure to come visit us in our secret TV room underneath the rental... it's got a handy bench that's good for sittin'!

TRASH DAY!

After all that remodeling and cabinet ripping-out and wall-destroying and concrete jackhammering and tree removal, our backyard looked kind of like this.

It got even crazier as the week went on... they found crazy stuff.  Some owner at some point built a back retaining wall by burying old water heaters, which our guys dug up.  Many dead trees and the awful entirety of our white tile floor were added to this pile.

This device came in handy.
 

After a week of negotiating with Kafkaesque L.A. bureaucracy for a dumpster permit, that glorious morn did dawn... trash day!  Time to get it all out.  Eight or so guys lugged all this concrete and assorted junk down our dilapidated stairs for two days.  Much better!

Someday, my Wylms, grass will grow here... it will become a verdant wonderland!
See, it's practically that way already!