Turn them out, knaves all three

A butcher? A baker? A candlestick maker?, who knows who owned this rub-a-dub beauty before us. This last weekend (memorial day), was all about the tub. We spent the weekend combing through some of the Puget Sound's home and business salvage warehouses. Zoe is beginning to understand a little bit about re-using older materials (jeff thinks), "she does seem to recognize that these aren't your normal stores." We are very happy with our choice and can't wait to get the bathroom finished so we can soak in the tub to alleviate all the stress and aches from finishing the bathroom to get the tub in... etc... etc...

http://www.earthwise-salvage.com/

http://www.seconduse.com/

http://www.re-store.org/

The missing tub has been the bottleneck to our downstairs bathroom remodel/restoration. Since we didn't have a tub to put in, Jeff didn't know where to move the existing plumbing (if at all). We found the tub at Earthwise Salvage. It turned out though, that the hardware included in the deal (which is clean and really cool; and a really good deal too) wasn't going to work with our existing plumbing.

The drain will still work, so we won't discard the originals, but we did have to visit another salvage warehouse to find a replacement set for our original plumbing (we have to move the faucet set further up the wall to fit with the new tub). This new set matches nicely and will work just great. Except for the faucet itself, which is just long enough now to fill the bathroom itself with water (completely missing the tub). So we are looking at ways to bump the faucet out with some molding or maybe some sort of sculpted piece (we even toyed with the idea of a trough - haha).

Now if we can just carve the time out to actually do the work. (haha)


And here's your random link for the post:

http://www.buildingreuse.org/directory/washington

and just for fun

http://www.epa.gov/kids/game.htm