Tales from the Batcave: Renovation update.

We live in what they term as a "fixer upper".
Some things have been getting fixed up while other items have had to wait for the appropriate cash flow.

Sometimes they just have to get done, as demonstrated the other day when the bathroom window almost fell out. I came home from work, and there it was, new. Smaller because that was what was available. "I tried to open it" was the explanation from L’hommevert. Makes sense to me.

Original 1940’s windows, but the frame around this one had dissolved.  I think that it was a justified repair?
So, for a penny, in for a pound, as they say.
I wrote about the "vanitory" project a while back. Since that time, the floor was replaced with tile and that is where it stopped. That cash flow problem.

Here is the new smaller window, and new wainscoting and molding that has gone in the last few days. None of the walls are straight, so it is like a puzzle. Way too much work, time, and anguish to demo and replace the plaster walls, so this was the plan.

 

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