Light Bulb Out = Remodeled Bathroom!

So our 50's style bathroom was in need of some major loving care. We had a medicine cabinet that had two lights on each side with a power outlet. Well one of the lights went out. We went through the process of checking it and nothing worked. I mentioned to Pat that maybe we should just get a new updated medicine cabinet and install some new lights up on the wall. Well that meant that we would need to install a new electrical outlit (since we only had one plug and that was connected to the med cabinet).

So we went for it. Bought a cheap cabinet, cheap light and cut a hole in the wall. Well thats when it got exciting! Once Pat had the hole cut he was feeling around in the wall and felt something funny. He started to scream from the bathroom. At this point I was in the laundry room and instantly thought he found a dead animal in between the walls. After a short discussion between the two of us and me only agreeing to go into the bathroom unless it was a bag of money in the wall that he had found would I enter. I walked in to see an electrical outlit already in place covered by a tile that had fell off of the wall during our mini construction adventure.

Ok, so we have an outlit, a hole in the wall for an extra, a new light on the wall and a new medicine cabinet. So we are all set...NO! Not in the Clouse House!!! This just meant the beginning of our adventure!

Pat and I have been working on our bathroom since last Thursday! We now have a new medicine cabinet, new light, new bead boarding, new flooring, new paint, new sink, new toilet, new blinds. Hey leave it to the Clouse's! A light bulb goes out and we remodel the bathroom!


Here I am taking all the left over water out of the toilet. What a joy! Let me add, I feel like complete white trash right now because the old toilet is sitting right outside our front door until Tuesday...Trash day!



We called it a night. The trim was not the right fit so we couldn't finish the bead board. We had to patch some spots on the wall and will have to re-sand the walls tomorrow. Oh and then the base board, caulking, the sink, install the mirror. ARGH!!! We are just too worn out to work anymore tonight. Once the bathroom is done I will post a finished pic!