Is it in poor taste to flaunt a bathroom?

Hey remember the bathroom, that fugly project from weeks a month ago? Right, well we did finish it and all that but then I got all busy frantically nesting and working and trying to fix my website plus the million other shiny round balls that grab my attention away from whatever I'm presently working on.

At long last, I give you....

The Bathroom!

Just to remind you, here is the before:


And after!


Before:

And after:

So there it is. Ahhh, it's a huge sigh of relief that it's finished and I love love love it. The former Home Despot special of yesteryear just feels like a bad nightmare now, I can hardly believe we lived with it for six years. All said, the renovation went pretty smoothly aside from the fact that it rained for four days solid right when they were cutting and laying the tile. Or my complete indecision on the paint color for the walls which pushed our project back four days while I waddled back and forth to the paint store buying more samples. Or the plumber who quoted me a $950 charge for an hour and a half's worth of work. Luckily a neighbor recommended a great plumber who did the work for 1/5 of the price and also helped Ben put together the shower doors, doors that practically required an engineering degree for assembly. The same doors that almost completely derailed our project when Ben (mistakenly) declared that they had to be mounted directly to the studs and we'd have to tear down the other side of the wall, which happened to be our laundry closet, to add an additional 2x4 to the framing. There was much despair for about ten minutes until, again luckily, the plumber showed up, read over the directions and pointed out (politely) that Ben was mistaken and it only meant that there had to be proper framing behind the whole shower and no we didn't have to tear down our laundry closet wall. I nearly wept with joy. Oh yeah, did I mention that I had a change of heart on the trim color as well and made Ben repaint all the trim? Yeah, I did. But believe me it looks so much better this way. You would have done the same thing. Ok you probably would have picked the right color from the beginning but you're so much better than me. Jerk.

Well it's all finished and none too soon. I pretty much ran out of energy a few days before we were "officially" finished i.e. Ben had marked off every last little detail on the massive to do list he'd assembled so he had to finish the rest. Which was completely fine by me as he gets a little finicky about these finishing details such as "vacuum closet" and "wash mirrored doors obsessively" so I left that for him to do. And then it took me a week of planting my butt on the couch during Nate's naptime to recover.

Now I'm back into the full swing of nesting, more on my beloved brand new deep freezer later, waddling around checking stuff off my deliriously long to do list. There's a tiny voice that keeps telling me to take it easy and rest up but then this other bossy voice comes in and tells me that he'd like some milk please. In his sippy cup. So since I'm up already, I might as well get some work done, right? Do you think I have time to carpet the two bedrooms and hallway before the baby arrives? Is that pushing it?