Renovations: Phase 3 begins

Phase 3 began late this winter/early this spring and is still continuing. Renovating the laundry room and small extra bathroom.

But why would anyone want to redo this gorgeous bathroom?

And no laundry room is complete without rust stains on the floor.
Mom starts to tear down wallpaper. Fun job.
Dad tears out the extremely gross sink that hasn't run well in years. Or ever?
Bathroom is re-sheetrocked with waterproof stuff and re-plumbed so the shower will go where the sink used to be and the sink will go where the weird tiny tub used to be. Toilet stays as is.
Wallpaper and floor have all been removed. Junk has not, but I'm still expected to do my laundry somehow...
Dad emerges from the even junkier basement with painting tools. Think we should renovate the basement next!??!
Dad and I prime the laundry room. Baby makes a small appearance.
Mike and Mom prime the bathroom.
Whoa. Why does this subdued dark blue we picked out look more like an eccentric little boy's room? We realized after it had all dried (hoped it would dry darker..nope) that the paint chip didn't even match the hue of the paint on the wall at all.
Got a new can of paint and made them re-mix until it matched better. Still not perfect, but definitely better than that crazy bright blue. Oops, we forgot to paint the bottom?
Wainscoting going up. It's all up now except corner pieces and the "shoe."
Bathroom is a khaki color, but I don't have a good picture of it yet. The floor tile is almost done - it's done in the laundry room. Renovation blunder #1233292.5: we bought all floor tile when we started the project several years ago so all tile would match throughout the house. Apparently we under-estimated by 2 whole boxes (40 tiles) how much we would need, so we ran out. Of course, the brand of tile we used is phasing out and no longer produces this exact tile. We now have about 25 tiles left in the bathroom that either won't match completely or...who knows.....we haven't gotten that far yet.....

Renovation blunder #1233293: Dad power nails the trim up around the "pocket door" from the living room to the laundry room. He accidentally nails the door open so it can no longer slide.....he does this twice.

And no renovation is complete without your toilet sitting on the porch for months.
Next up: finishing floor tile (hopefully with a similar tile design on the edges of the bathroom and no one will notice?), putting up trim around windows, painting all wainscoting and trim, installing all bathroom items (new shower, new sink vanity, old toilet), finding some sort of cabinet for my cleaning supplies and brooms and stuff. Almost done?

Renovations: Phase 2

Phase 2 happened last fall and a little early this spring. We stained the entire outside of the house and garage. After blasting clean the real wood siding, it still had lots of extremely dark and extremely light patches from sun and weathering over the years, so we had to go with an opaque stain - it looks like we painted, but it is actually wood stain. Went with a brown (anything else just would seem weird) and a khaki-ish trim color.

Why is mom taking down the basketball goal while dad watches? Who knows. There is now a nice basketball goal-shaped patch on the house where the texture of the wood is different since it didn't weather as much as the wood around it. Lovely.

Dad starts staining the garage. It looks a lot brighter when the stain is wet - the finished product is darker and more subdued.

Mike stains trim.
Dad stains the "uppers"
Mike and Dad tear out the old doors. (You can see our new porch light in this picture, too. It matches the one on the front porch and our new post-light by the driveway)
New front door.

Next up: Phase 3 - laundry room/bathroom.