Don't Bump Your Head

My stairs to the basement are a little steep and tall people, not me, tend to hit their heads when reaching a certain point.  So I decided to do a little painting to help prevent that without having to say flat out "Watch your head".

Finished.  I don't think it looks too bad.  It will at least draw your eye to it so hopefully you won't hit your head.  That is unless you are blinded by my mad art skills. ;)

Bathroom progress

I've been focusing on the bathroom lately.  I'm trying to get it back to a working bathroom, well at least a working toilet, since it is the only one in the house.  And I'm glad to say that we put the toilet back in yesterday.  All that's left is to finish the tile in the shower, paint the walls once more, and put in my pedestal sink. 

Walls primed.

My progress on the shower.  I'm using 3 x 6 inch subway tile.

Floor done and grouted.

Walls painted.  It's a grayish brown.

Toilet in!  This is actually the old toilet with a new seat.  I used 220 drywall sandpaper, the mesh kind, to remove all the old rust and hard water mineral stains.  Looks like a new toilet, except it you only have to flush it once, unlike the new ones! ;)

One way to burn a house down.

No, I didn't do anything stupid and almost burn my house down.  I'm talking about this:

This is one of the basement windows, and that is lint from the dryer exhaust.  You can see the square shape of the exhaust on the left.

It was about 3 inches thick.  Plus they had a plastic window well cover over it and then they built a deck over the window! 

So glad they left the screen on the window...

Mostly clean now.  Some of the lint was stuck on to the bricks pretty good.

Got a whole 5 gal. bucket of lint out of the window, not to mention the mat of lint on the bottom (it's folded in half next to the bucket).

That's one way to burn your house down.

Bathroom Sheetrock

I've just finished putting up the sheetrock in the bathroom.  It's green because it is the mold resistant stuff.  I just have to do some touch ups with the joint compound and I will be ready for paint.  I probably won't paint until I get all the tile done, I can't guarentee I won't scuff the walls in the process.  So I'm moving on to tile!  I'm actually pretty excited about this.  I've gotten my OSB laid down and am ready to put down my backerboard.  Hopefully I can get a good chunk of the tile done this week.

Sorry about the pictures, it's a small bathroom.