Day 89

Because there are two "floors" in the 2nd floor bathroom our heating plans will not work there. The addition on 2nd floor was build one step lower then the rest of our house (the kitchen and bathroom on both 1st and 2nd floor was an addition to the house) and the ceiling is lower in this part of the house. We are thinking this is because this was where the servants might have lived. At some time, the 2nd floor bathroom had a second floor put in so that it would match the floor level of the rest of the 2nd floor. The heating that we have decided on was running pex tubing under the floor and using hot water to heat our house. But now with two floors under the bathroom it just isn't going to work there. So we decided to head into Lincoln and find a different answer.

My family is going to come back up next weekend to finish the bathroom. So we need to get a few things figured out before they get here and we finish the bathroom. First is the heating... second we need to find some lighting for over the sink... third we need a mirror for over the sink.

So our first three stops are the home improvement stores. Where we find nothing we really like for any of our three problems. Then we head off to some of the antique shops. We find several things we like here. But not just the right thing for the lighting problem. We have a couple of lights that we picked up from craigslist several months ago. We had thought that they might work. But needed to know how much room the mirror was going to take. After our day of shopping we are thinking that they might work for us. We did find a mirror that we really like. The ladies at the antique shop both thought it was a beautiful mirror as well. So tomorrow we will have to put the new mirror next to our lights and see what we think. We still have the problem of heat for the bathroom. Since we have gotten home Jonathan has been doing some research and we think that we might have that worked out as well. It looks like we can use the same water set-up that we are planning on, but in the bathroom we will use a radiator to bring the heat into the room. This will take a bit more research, but it is looking good.

We are even starting to think of colors for the room. :D Finally we are starting on the fun part. I can't wait to see what the room will look like when we are finished.




Here is the mirror that we bought for the bathroom.


This is the top part of the mirror.