Remodeling with my mother

oh, no! I'm gonna have to re-learn how to blog.... I have yet to figure out this new way... So, here goes!

It's been 2 weeks since my mother flew back home.... ---She had been here for 3 weeks, and just about every day of that time she and I were working on the house my parent's bought nearby.

Here's a few pix of the work we did....{If I can figure out how to post! ---Hope they'll be in order!}


 ok, so this is the BEFORE picture... {in case you couldn't tell! --Definitely Yuck!}
 This house hadn't been lived in for at least 3 years... Stood empty {and open!}.
They got a great deal on it!  {I kinda wish I bought it myself!!!}

This bathroom was disgusting. Looked like a 'camp' with all the 'wainscotting' on the walls... This 1 piece fiberglass tub/surround was RUINED by amateur 'wanta-be' plumbers!  They had a huge hole cut for the hot and cold water supply and covered it with a piece of thin formica like stuff.... and they didn't even seal that, you could pull it away from the tub to see in behind the wall!   Also, there was no exhaust fan, I was really surprised to not find any mold on that wood!

 Here's a picture of  'in process'...   That is--- In the process of ripping out the old tile floor, and old nasty wood that was on the walls, and some of the old sheetrock, and of course, putting in new moisture resistant sheetrock, and installing all new fixtures!  ---Including, our masterpiece--

 Tile surrounding the new steel bathtub.  With 2 inset shelves. My mother and I did all this tile work ourselves.  {She had a contractor doing most of the other stuff.}

 Here we are, finishing up the tiling of the floor {and baseboard} with Arianna {age 10}. She came over near the end, and helped lay in some of the baseboard. {We used bullnose tiles for the baseboard here.}

And, here is the finished project... painted, and with the 'finish plumbing' done {faucets on tiled walls, toilet/sink installed}...  Now, we'll be adding towel rods, etc. And my mother thinks she wants 2 handicap bars in the tub. One will be horizontally on the back wall, and one will be vertically on the left side.