The attic bath remains a work in progress, it is just that the progress has been on hiatus. We now call it a half bath, because it is half done. This bath could well turn into a 2 year project, but luckily for me, I’ve met a friend here who’s husband took 8 years to finish their bathroom, so you could say that we are way ahead of schedule.
All the dry wall is up and we’ve begun to attach the bead board and the bathroom is starting to take shape!
Yesterday was a big day for the half bath…we hung the sink! The sink that I bought off of Craig’s list almost 2 years ago! It is an old school-house sink at five feet long and will make this bathroom amazing. The sink is also heavy…very heavy, so making sure it stayed put when we put it up was very, very important.
My Loving Spouse made a bracket from an old piece of hard iron to hold the sink on the wall. The iron was drilled with many a drill bit to anchor it securely to the studs. I am on hand to run up and down stairs for more drill bits, help lift the HEAVY sink at the right time and ask important questions like,”Are you sure you’re drilling in the right direction?” My Loving Spouse’s comment is left out for many a reason.
We (The Royal We) do get the lag screws screwed and manage to pick up the heavy (Bad British Word) of a sink. Settling the sink onto the bracket is a turning point in the half bath. We do some rejoicing as we look around the ‘attic’ and see not how far we still have to go, but how far we’ve come!
