The first field modification came early on in the weekend, before the foreman even arrived in Columbus, a phone call that changed the destiny of the floorplan. As you may remember from the kitchen remodel, the architectural element of the abandoned chimney was used in the corner of the kitchen. This same chimney in the bathoom was taking up valuable real estate, so upon a little site investigation, the chimney came down via human chain of rubble removal.
Floor Plan Rev. 1 07-03-09
Removing the chimney now allows for a bigger vanity, not 24" like the existing, bigger mirror, modified lighting, more storage etc. etc. The floor plan now looks a little like the sketch below, not to scale.
Much of the remainder of the layout revolves around the location of the sanitary stack and the flange for the toliet. The new customized flange and plumbing is illustrated below. All of the existing plumbing was located within the concrete subfloor, which with the return of the hammer-drill, help of Best Man Steve and Mt. Dew, came out with little incident.
While plumbing was reworked, there was time to rough in some new lighting above the shower. Joe laid out the lighting plan on the ceiling, along with a Plan B layout, just in case the joists in the ceiling didn't want to coordinate with our renovation below.
The cats are not amused by the noise, dust and general inconvience to their routine. For the most part they have stayed away from the disaster zone. They will occasionally snoop around where they are not supposed to, but the shaft is now closed up and fear of a cat in the hole has passed. Shrimpy illustrates some of the accent tile that will be used.
Color samples were made to try and decide on a color, and while paint was on sale for the holiday weekend. We have decided on the Sherwin Williams "Mountain Air" in the Duration line, which is no VOC paint. Mountain Air is on the left of the color swatches below. The floor tile is also in view, better pics will come along, as soon as the tile arrives from the boat from Italy. 
In celebration of the 4th, Nathan came over for the Bexley parade and then chilled and helped with some odds and ends around the house. He helped dust the steps, pick up pine cones in the back yard, torment the cats, and throw construction debris down the chimney stack, which we will call demolition debris removal methods.
Injuries
This weekend was short of a miracle with only minor scrapes and bruises to report. The total number of painkillers consumed is around the 12 per worker ratio.
Pictured below is the bribe to get Jenny to demolish the bathroom and become House Manager for a week. They are worth every penny. 
Part of the House Manger duties is meal prepartion, below is a delicious meal prepared with fresh cilantro from the garden. More pictures of the garden portion of the blog will be coming soon.
The cats are not amused by the noise, dust and general inconvience to their routine. For the most part they have stayed away from the disaster zone. They will occasionally snoop around where they are not supposed to, but the shaft is now closed up and fear of a cat in the hole has passed. Shrimpy illustrates some of the accent tile that will be used.
Color samples were made to try and decide on a color, and while paint was on sale for the holiday weekend. We have decided on the Sherwin Williams "Mountain Air" in the Duration line, which is no VOC paint. Mountain Air is on the left of the color swatches below. The floor tile is also in view, better pics will come along, as soon as the tile arrives from the boat from Italy. In celebration of the 4th, Nathan came over for the Bexley parade and then chilled and helped with some odds and ends around the house. He helped dust the steps, pick up pine cones in the back yard, torment the cats, and throw construction debris down the chimney stack, which we will call demolition debris removal methods.
InjuriesThis weekend was short of a miracle with only minor scrapes and bruises to report. The total number of painkillers consumed is around the 12 per worker ratio.
Trips to Home Improvement Warehouses: 5
Pictured below is the bribe to get Jenny to demolish the bathroom and become House Manager for a week. They are worth every penny.
Part of the House Manger duties is meal prepartion, below is a delicious meal prepared with fresh cilantro from the garden. More pictures of the garden portion of the blog will be coming soon.
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