There are less than 14 weeks/weekends until baby girl’s due date and our list is pretty long of things we want to accomplish before she makes her appearance. Each weekend it’s our goal to get one main thing done, and it doesn’t hurt if we can chip away at anything else. Just call us the weekend warriors.

Here is our list that we made a few weeks ago…

• Paint kitchen ceiling
• Seal tile/grout backsplash in kitchen
• Replace 4 doors upstairs (2 done, 2 to go)
• Bathroom remodel
  • Tear out step & shower
  • Paint Vanity (half done)
  • Re-tile shower
  • Tile the floor
  • Replace countertop
  • Paint the walls
  • Hang new mirror
• Clean up garage & basement

We shared last week of how we tore out the step and were glad to find no dead bodies. This weekend Drew took care of ripping out the actual shower drywall and tile, while I was taking maternity photos for Becky. We thought we’d first remove the tile and see if the drywall could be spared, but unfortunately it was extremely hard to just remove the tile and then once we found mold behind one of the walls from cracked grout, we decided it was best for it all to go. The good news is the studs are perfectly fine since that one wall was sealed with plastic because it’s an outside wall with insulation.

Here are the photos Drew sent me while tearing it out. Yuck…

And now here it is all gone!

While Drew was working on that task, my dad was working on replacing the doors. We are replacing a couple of them because they were extremely warped, for example our cat could open the nursery door because it wouldn’t fully close. We got two of the four rehung this weekend, but still have to also rehang up the outer trim. If you know my dad he is a perfectionist, so man those doors are perfectly square and level!

And while we’re chipping away at projects, unfortunately the nursery becomes the dumping ground for supplies…

Next weekend is my baby shower (so excited) and we’re hoping my dad and Drew can finish hanging the rest of the doors and maybe, just maybe get started on rehanging the waterproof backer board for the shower.

We officially started the bathroom reno project a few weeks ago! This project has been on our radar since day one, but we wanted to tackle the kitchen first. And now with our baby girl arriving in June, we want to cross this off our list before she’s here (we plan on doing NO projects this summer!) So we finally decided we needed to start this. If you forgot, here is the “look” we’re going for that I posted awhile ago (with a few things tweaked)…

 We first started by removing the vanity doors and priming + painting the cabinets (we took the doors to my parents to get the trim added and will prime + paint those later).

We also primed and painted the second bathroom door (connects to our master bedroom). We’re actually replacing the other main door (along with others throughout the house) so that is why I’m not bothering to paint it.

Next up was to remove the awkward step that was right in front of the shower. I’m sure the builder added to to make it more “grand” but it was just all wrong. #1 – You couldn’t put a normal bath mat there since the step wasn’t wide enough, it would just slide off. #2 – You step down into the shower. Stepping into a wet tub from up high just screams wiping out (thankfully we haven’t done that, but it was an accident waiting to happen). #3 – It took up some legit floor space.

The only thing was we were unsure if there was some sort of reason for the step, but after tearing it open yesterday, we’re happy to report it was just wood and there were no dead bodies 😉 I thought that would have been the perfect opportunity for the builders to put a time capsule in there, but nope.

Drew used his handy dandy tool, aka a rotary hammer, that he borrowed from work, and the whole project (tearing out + clean up) took about an hour. Now we just have to work on getting the caulk and glue off the tub.

Next up is tearing out the tile in the shower surround. Please send prayers our way that nothing surprising is found back there that requires lots of $$ and time. We’re hoping to just rehang dry wall + tile away!