We’ve been doing a lot of projects these past few months – new deck railing, staining the deck and its new railing, new den floor, woodstove replacing the old fireplace (and lots of side projects that went with that) plus all the cleaning and rearranging to accomodate the twenty-something cases of booze that came into the house a few months back. Now we’ve got a little something going on in the upstairs bathroom. We’ve been living upstairs a lot more, and as a result, we’ve been using that bathroom a lot more.

The first step was to put in a new shower head, one of those rainfall type showerheads where the water sort of falls on you instead of spraying and pelting out at you. I originally bought it for the massive Jacuzzi tub downstairs, but we ended up moving it upstairs. I also have a vent fan to install – it’s the only bathroom in the house that didn’t have one. I actually bought it almost a year ago, but I’ve been waiting for the Autumn and the cessation of some of these other projects to get on it since the attic hangs out at like 110 degrees most of the year. Yuck.

The other major addition to the room is a really nice whit medicine cabinet we had in our old house, back when we did a slightly more extensive bathroom remodel there. When we sold the house, the cabinet came with us. It’s been sitting in storage for a couple years, but we’re finally ready to take down the ugly three door wood thing that we’ve been living with so far. And the other day we picked up a really nice new light fixture for over the cabinet – it will replace the one we have now. You know in movies when you see the star’s dressing room lighting, with a couple dozen bulbs surrounding the mirror? That’s kind of what this light is like – the one we’re replacing, I mean.

So, as the weather cools, I’m looking forward to cozying up the bathroom. That, and lots of painting, all through the house. It should be a colorful season.