What the geoffs are doing on our summer vacation
We moved into a new house last October, and since our new house is actually a 50-year-old house, we’ve been doing a bit of upgrading and remodeling. Our current project is the upstairs bathroom, which is used by the kids. Here’s a shot of the bathroom looking from the door (all pictures were taken by Mrs. geoff):
The pink toilet you see at the far left is shown here:
and the pink tub you saw is shown here:
Our goal is to de-pink the bathroom and replace all of its fixtures with new stuff. So the wife, kids, and I all started demolition a couple of weeks ago.
Here’s the current view from the door:
and here’s the tub area:
So we’ve taken it down to the studs. Now it’s time to start putting it back together. I fear that we are far more accomplished destroyers than creators, but we’re prepared to live with our results.
I’ll be posting updates over the next month, so you can see it transform.
July 4, 2007 at 10:00 am
Kudos for de-pinkifying that bathroom, geoff…Now are you going to install brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of Chanel No. 5, and a flunky handing out pieces of raw silk toilet roll? (just a thought)
July 4, 2007 at 10:09 am
Yeah, we’re going totally Saddam Hussein on its ass.
July 4, 2007 at 10:16 am
By the way, Happy 4th of July to you and your family…you going to see any fireworks shows?
July 4, 2007 at 10:18 am
We’re going to sit up on the roof and see if we can see them from there. Unfortunately this county doesn’t allow us to do our own.
July 4, 2007 at 10:29 am
Wow! The geoff family has no equal to demolition skills. Can’t wait to see the putting-back-togethers.
July 4, 2007 at 11:33 am
Geoff’s kid: Da-ad, I finished my reading, can I play video games now?
Geoff: Did you demo the back shower wall?
Geoff’s kid:
Geoff: I told you no video game until you tear down that back wall and carry the lathes and old plaster down to the garage.
Geoff’s kid: Daddy, I’m six years old.
Geoff: Yeah, well, you eat like a ten year old. You have work to do. Sledgehammer’s in the upstairs hallway.
July 4, 2007 at 12:39 pm
That’s remarkably close to the truth. They took off about half the tile and about a fifth of the dry wall by themselves.
They actually liked doing it. [looks around to see if kids are near] Really! They loved it!
July 5, 2007 at 10:16 am
Nice. Stuff like that is fun to some people.
Not to me. But some people.
When I was in college an older cousin was visiting my folks, and dad mentioned how mom had wanted for years for him to remove a wall and turn the living room and the den into one big family room. I remembered mom talking about it when I was in high school.
So my cousin got up and said “where’s the sledgehammer”?
It was down in a few hours, and a few days later the remodel/fix up was done.
I guess my dad fell into the “not so fun” category too.
July 6, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Pink toilet - I have a story about one. Back in the mid-70’s when I was a kid we lived in a Maryland suburb about 20 miles from D.C. There were wooded areas and a couple farms around our area. There was a twisty, turny road that went through the woods near the house and if you knew when to look, you could see a pink toilet sitting out in the woods from the road. The thing was you had to know the exact moment to look, or else you wouldn’t see it. You had to be In The Know to see the pink toilet. After a few years somebody busted up the toilet, then it was removed altogether. A short time before we moved from Maryland somebody put a new pink toilet back where the old one was.