CAD is back. Back again. UPDATE - bathroom 95% done!

so, first a couple of pics to 'set the stage'. we ran out of money when we bought our house a couple of years ago so several rooms remained 'undone'. the bathroom was fine..albeit humble but enter The Lovely Mrs CAD and her hammer and energy and lo she began to destroy our bathroom thinking she was going to do the remodel herself.

6 months..8 months...12 months later..the ramifications of that decision are in place for everyone to enjoy.



(SIDEBAR - that vent is taped closed because one day i went to use the toilet and lo and behold a BAT was sleeping in the opening and i had to gird myself in chainmail armor to remove him without risking getting rabies but i digress...





So, there you have it. This has been our guest bathroom for the last year more or less.

HOW QUAINT.

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today however, a new chapter, a fresh new wind has blown in (thanks to local tile stores and our friend, Mr. AI) has emerged and we have hired someone to take the bathroom apart.




So, pausing here I wish to relay a cute story.

I often use this bathroom; sometimes late at night particularly if I've pissed The Lovely Mrs. CAD off and she relegates me to the upstairs guest room Gulag.

Oftentimes I'm doing my business and doom scrolling at THREE AM and suddenly the bathroom is alive with the sounds of scuttling animals.

yet i turn the light on, use my flashlight on my phone...look around and THERE IS NOTHING THERE yet the sound persists.

THEY ARE LITERALLY RIGHT NEXT TO ME


So only today, the mystery is finally revealed. Yes friends, this 1970s era house is just FULL of non-great-stuff openings and that 'bath fitter' bathtube enclosure was apparently nothing more than Club Second Floor for pets and part of the elaborate "second house" occupied by squirrels, chipmunks, mice, demons from hell and whatnot and they're just having the time of their life.

I can almost hear them saying "this MF has been in the bathroom for 37 minutes..watch me freak him the frick out when he hears me RIGHT NEXT TO HIM BUT CANT SEE ME!"


ok sorry, i got off on a tanget. but anyway, The Lovely Mrs. CAD and i picked tile and lights and shower fixtures from amazon and i asked Mr. AI to open the closet wall next to current bath tub (a shallow useless hall closet right now) and it literally read my mind and put the tile in we picked out, correct proportions, the whole 9 years. so this is where we are going with the bathroom. will keep you appraised.

(pic of shallow, useless hall closet)




Covering the stamped ceiling with boards (if this works we'll replicate in the halls and everywhere else we have stamped ceilings), expanding the closet for towels and drywalling the exterior door to the closet, tiling everything and of course new vanity, toilet, etc etc.

Thats its. My story is done.

cool story bro
k keep us posted






ETA bonus pics from my crawfish boil this past weekend thanks to CGRAND and the food board and a cast of thousands