oh project

since baby # 3 is due in october (by the way, we didn't find out what we are having last week at our ultrasound...a fun surprise is in store!), we have embarked on this ginormous project to make better use of our upstairs space. our house is 3 bedroom right now, but the 3rd bdr is downstairs and was added on 90 years after the rest of the house was built. thus, from the back bdr, you can hear nothing, see nothing, know nothing about what is going on upstairs. with leeetle children, we just feel better about all being upstairs when this babe comes along. graham and marit do a great job sharing their room and we have this unnecessarily large bathroom and had a lot of wasted space in the laundry room as well, so we set out to more efficiently use the space.
will be the nursery:

we are combining the laundry room (stacking washer and drier) and bathroom. once adam pulled up the floor in here, we discovered all the necessary plumbing for a bathroom so it seems we are converting it back to the original plan. we were so thankful to see those pipes since that meant we would not have to hire a plumber! adam has been plugging away at this project in his limited spare time with a little help from our dads on occasion.
my dad did most of the wiring!

though having bunches of power tools, lumber, pipes, sawdust, bathtubs etc kind of take over the upstairs can be annoying, adam has been so sweet about trying to keep it fairly tidy and i am so thankful he is able to do most of the work himself... even if it takes a little longer. my mother-in-law and some sweet friends have allowed me to borrow their washer/drier every once in a while and we are just learning to be more flexible in general. i've been napping marit back in the crib as there are many hazards around now...
pipes and joists (the floor had to be built up so it would be flat...you know old house crookedness)

shower stall built: we plan to do subway tiles around the tub, sagey green wall, terracotta tiled floors, maybe leave some of the old beams exposed...many more pictures to come as we progress...