Indoor plumbing, for real!

Work continues, though at another stalled pace as the weekend found M with a 3-day migrane and me with a stomach thing. In other words, we didn't make much progress. But I can show you what was installed a couple weeks ago, and has been much anticipated and much admired since installation:

Master Bath toilet, installed!

Lookey there! There's tile installed in the master bathroom, which allowed for baseboards to be installed (well mostly, don't look at the "cap" to the left--not quite finished there) which allowed for, YES! A working toilet! (forgive the Home Depot bag that's serving as a TP holder. Fancy, huh?)

Remember last August where I got a "present"? The original (read SKEEVY) toilet, cleaned up, installed (though you had to turn the hose on to flush) in the someday-to-be-a-powder-room area (defined and privatized by a blue tarp? Well, this is the day I've been waiting for. An actual toilet, that is connected to the water (NOT by a hose) that's new, clean, and private. And pretty to boot!

Here is a close up:

We picked out the toilets (all three of them) along with some of our fixtures (master bath and guest bath faucets) at least a year ago. I'm so relieved we still like them! Now to get running water (aka a sink) in so we don't have to use the hose to wash hands, paintbrushes and the like.

And meanwhile, floor installation continues this week (now that M's headache is gone) without me. She tells me she's finished the living room and is at work on the Powder Room (that's really exciting, because once the floor is complete, baseboards and wainscotting can be installed, then the pedestal sink and toilet, then it's nearly complete). She did get a new light fixture installed in there last week. Photos to follow in an upcoming post. And pix of the cabinets, I promise.