After all the other things that we were doing this weekend, I almost forgot that we also installed a new lamp in the bathroom upstairs. We found one at IKEA that we thought would work and it does look quite good in there. We also bought one for the office downstairs but unfortunately it is not really the right lamp. In fact, the location of the hook up is really not great either so we may go with a desk lamp there instead and just close off that cable for now.

It was actually still dark outside when I took this picture this morning so you can see that the light is quite bright. There are 5 halogen bulbs on the little lightening bolt shaped structure which we’ve now got pointing all over the bathroom. We think we can even overcome the need for a light above the sink because the light reflects a bit from the mirror and lights up whatever is standing in front of it…so we’ll see how that works for putting on make-up in the morning.

As you can see, we decided to move the cabinet over further from the wall so both of us can use the sink at the same time. The faucet swivels which makes this a lot easier and the sink itself is more than large enough. The medicine cabinet on the wall will need to be moved, though, since it was hung before we had the cabinet. It was actually a bit of an accident that it got hung first because I wasn’t really sure where we’d end up with the sink cabinet and knew we could run into trouble there. But if we have to patch one more little hole in the wall, so be it.

I really can’t wait for this room to be finished. We have a bunch of bathroom stuff to unpack and a lot of it needs to go up here so I am ready to get going. After having 4 bathrooms in our old house and now finally getting back up to 2, it is a bit of challenge to find homes for everything at the moment. Eventually we are probably going to build a closet into the nook in the bathroom downstairs that used to have a closet but which was ripped out when we moved the door and put up a real wall instead of just a sheet of plywood. Then we will have a good place to stash all our extra guest towels and other bath rations.

Overall the bathroom has turned out better than initially expected. I knew that it was going to end up looking fabulous but there was a short period of time with the unfinished wall tiles up and the hospital green still showing from the drywall that I really started to think we’d made a mistake. I am also very happy to report that when we first checked out the bathroom, the floor was creaking very badly, even when you walked into the shower stall and we were really concerned that this would be a big problem. But the heater had been off in there and now that it’s warmed up (since that is one of the few radiators in the house that works wonderfully), the floors aren’t making any more noise. Woohoo!