Backyard evergreens

We have these HUGE evergreens along the back fenceline of our yard. Too big really. The nice lilac bushes were crowded. We had planned on taking them down pretty small and moving them. Once we got them shaved down, we decided to just trim up the evergreens and I love how it looks! And Daddy got to use his chainsaw!

Downstairs bathroom

I do not have before pictures of this room handy, but it was pretty worn out. There was old 12x12 vinyl tile we finally decided to remove. That mostly came up easy except where the floor was different. There was sheet vinyl underneath and it was on there pretty good. Our bathoom used to be half the size. The former owners made the coat closet into part of the bath and added a shower. We were so worn out doing the floor that we decided we needed Home Depot to do the ceramic. We were going to put new 12x12 vinyl in there. It turned out so good with the ceramic, I am glad we changed our minds. It is like a real bathroom now and not pieced together. my middle daughter and I painted it mostly. We put the new vanity in (clearance for $200 from $300!) and the sink was pretty cheap too. We re used our old faucet which was not that old. Could not find a new mirror big enough to cover the space from the old one so we painted it and left it:)

The laundry tub

When we moved in 5 years ago, the laundry tub looked pretty good. Fiber board, but it had a door and an actual cabinet. By putting in a huge washer, the water that discharged was too much for that tub. Water regularly overflowed. The fiberboard swelled. It got yucky and I tore the door off figuring if I started the demo, Daddy would have to fix it. It took a few years. By now we have finished an unprecedented number of fixes!

Tearing out the old one was trickier than we thought. Some of it came out easily but we needed the Dremel to get the rest off, especially around the plumbing.

The new one is BIG enough, and clean and white. We took off quite a bit of drywall removing the old that we had to to put FRP board up and it looks so nice!