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The New Look

• One of the first things I did was set up a workshop out in the garage.  I managed to bring quite a few tools with me from California including my radial saw but space in the car was limited and I ended up buying a new Drill Press, a vise, and a variety of power tools. A man down the street was also doing a Rehab on a house and he had a tool cabinet which he was getting rid of so I picked that up and put it out in the garage
• The bathroom was a major challenge as the bathtub had to be replaced.  It was an old metal tub and was chipped and rusted in spots.  I decided to go with a spa tub.  All of the faucets were bad as well so those had to be accessed through the closet wall in the guest bedroom.  I built a frame for the tub to sit on and Brian came  up and helped me pour concrete  under the tub to avoid cracking.  Once the concrete was in place, I lowered the tub onto it using a ratchet hoist so with the side supports and the concrete base, it has a very solid feel to it.
• We installed bead board all around the lower portion of the bathroom. Then I routed trim for the top of the bead board as well as for the crown molding.  I fabricated a headboard for the top of the shower curtain to hide the rod.  The walls in the interior of the house had the 2x4's laid flat making the walls only about 2 inches thick so this caused the Electric Wall Heater to stick way out so I made a frame and towel hanger as part of the heater frame.  Michelle bought all new accessories for the bath as well as well as creating the WAL and KER pictures for the frames on each side of the heater.
• One other thing I did was to buy a clothes hanger rod and modify it to create a pole to hang onto while getting in and out of the tub.  Michelle likes to call this my "stripper pole".  All the rooms in this house have hardwood floors so the mater bedroom needed only throw rugs, paint, and more of Michelle's decorating.  I had to go up into the attic to install the electric for the new fan that we put in this room.