Progress 2

The bathroom reno has started. Joey arrived at noon on Friday and worked late into the night. He slept in a swag and got up early and started again. There's lots of photos here, a lot of them nearly the same, but I want to chronicle this whole process in detail ('cos I won't ever be doing this again)!

Joey had already started by the time I got down there to take these photos. I finished painting the rail in the lounge room.

There was a narrow white cupboard in this corner.

Toilet on the left, hallway on the right, through to the bathroom. There's lots of photos taken from this angle because the transformation is best seen from here.

Welcome to my nightmare; redback spider nests.

Rat nest under the bathtub.

The hallway wall is gone.

To give perspective, this is the open plan showing the old toilet, hallway and bathroom. The toilet will move down towards the front of the photo (and face the right hand wall) and give valuable space to the bathroom. 

The new toilet will sit on the tiles at the front of the photo and face the right. Joey has removed some tiles in the middle. This is how the room looked when we left on Friday night.

This is how things looked when Meg and I got there on Saturday morning. All floor tiles removed, sheeting on walls and floor, second toilet and basin pedestal and old bathtub in place so that we could play with configuration.

After half an hour of "how about" and "what if we did this" we finally decided on the layout.  Meg and I went to town to pick up more tiles.

We all worked all day; Joey on the bathroom, Meg and I on her room and Gibbo on the sheep fencing.

This is pretty much how the bathroom looked when we left on Sat night.

Finally, finally, at last, it took forever - we finished getting the wallpaper off Meg's walls. In hindsight it would have been easier to pull the sheets off and put new ones on. It may not look like it but these strips are as smooth as a baby's bottom.

It would have been a much easier job if we'd actually known what we were doing at the start. I feel like I finally worked out what to do when there was one panel of sanding left.

The middle lounge room. Sometimes you just have to close your eyes and walk on by.

All the while, this was the view outside. Rain!

Meg took Drew to the early bus on Sat morning so that he could get to Bris for his first shift at his new job. After getting home at nearly 2am from his local pub job he was rather difficult to get moving. However, he made it to Bris, across to Leo's where he was staying, then to work at Suncorp (for the Indigenous All Starts football game) and then back to Leo's via Park Rd pizza and beers. Today he caught another bus to Twba to stay the night with Meg. The effort (and cost) to get to Bris and back is worth it just to secure the job and actually start. He will be back at College in a few weeks so of course it will all be much easier.