A wonderful job! Your 'before' photos show a tub that looks a lot like ours - but ours was an icky green! It may not be the same, as this one is reasonably deep. But it has a straight back which is very uncomfortable when trying to soak. I really envy you your deep new tub. We couldn't afford to take ours out due to flooring issues. So we just had it repainted instead. The old green monster: Much better in neutral beige! I can't get over those blue carpet tiles on the wall. I had to get my DH to come over and look at such an amazing (and appalling) sight! I thought our original bathroom was ugly - the POs had a bright pink fluffy toilet seat cover in a green and yellow bathroom!? - but I think yours has beaten ours for the 'most awful decorating', hands-down...... Congrats again on doing such a great job. I'm impressed with your DIY skills!

mona, for some reason I clicked on Gallery this morning, lo and behold I came upon this wonderful thread; there are still a lot of active pictures and links. As an update, the house I linked to above was sold as of september 14, 08, no longer is our, we had it for more than 7 years. Most of the things in it are in storage or in my new condo.

Thanks everyone! Fori, see below. I used to have it "dressed up" a little more--a nice table runner, decorative stuff on the counter, but we've dissolved into "clean functional" around here with an 18 month old. I have an open floor plan, so all the rooms run together. As for the side of the fridge, it was a compromise between my clutter phobias and hubby's love of photos/magnets/etc. I will try to find the name of the paint, it was the builder original when we bought it, though I'm going to have to repaint this lovely flat with a more kid friendly version (same color though). I have closeups of the tile, too. It's the Lowes AO basic subway tile. I like it because it has some bevel and a much warmer white than the HD version. The bullnose pieces are limited, but hubby did an excellent job of manuvering around that. 30 square feet was about $100 with all the thin set, special pieces, grout, etc. From Kitchen From Kitchen From Kitchen From Kitchen From Kitchen From Kitchen From Kitchen

Mayflowers - I dont know about the stain or the finish. So here is an update. I discovered from our designer that these are not custom made cabinets. They were made by Mid Continent Cabinets. Apparently this factory is not able to, or doesnt want to, pick out less knotty pieces of alder to remake the doors. We could ask them to remake x doors and drawers and we might get x drawers and doors that are worse, or better, or the same. This seems like very odd quality control to me, and a huge waste of everyone's time. Our designer spoke with someone at Mid Continent who said that alder is a poor man's cherry, and that we should be able to replace all the doors with cherry. She left us a sample and indeed it looks like it might work, But Mid Continent quoted us $2600 to remake all drawers and doors in cherry. Our designer said she would pay half "because she and I are both guilty of miscommunication during the initial cabinet design", even though I gave her the exact bill of materials that we had chosen a year ago with another company. As well as shown her pictures of the cabinets. Whatever. So my question to you guys - Ive heard that cherry darkens with time. Would you take the chance getting cherry drawers and doors on an alder frame? The colors match very well right now. Personally, I kind of want our designer to reimburse us some $$$ and use it to get custom doors and drawers from a builder who actually cares about quality and can hand pick the alder. And then she can wash her hands of this mess and we can take responsibility of the final product rather then being at the mercy of unhelpful companies like Mid Continent.