Third Floor Project

​Oh boy, this was the longest project of all time. In fact, we built an entire Dollar General at work in the time it took to finish one room and one bathroom in my own house! 

When we built our home back in 2017, we didn't know how we'd live in the space. Grady didn't exist either! We decided to leave the third floor semi finished but not totally. We did the hardwood stairs to it, hung dry wall and painted it and then plumbed the bathroom and left stubs. We didn't floor it, we just left the subfloor. The space counted for our SF in our cert of occupancy when we built the house. It was conditioned etc.

We decided to move the playroom from the second floor up to the third and make the second floor more of a theatre/gaming room. 

So this was our list to do for the third floor:

Put carpet down

Tile the bathroom

Add a frameless shower door

Get plumbing fixtures

Get a pretty light and mirror for the bathroom

Add three cabinets - one in the bathroom, one big "closet" for games etc because there isn't a closet up there and one wet bar so they could have drinks etc. 

Granite for bar and for the bathroom cabinet

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We started in July and finished in November. It was ridiculous but I'll spare you the details. Here is where we started and finished!

Our storage room...

And the finished product:

Should I mention how horrible of a tile job it is? Or how he used brown grout instead of gray and I had to paint every spec of grout to fix it? Or how we had a water pipe burst when the cabinets were installed? Or the two countertops it took to make sure the sink was in the middle? Or how the granite for our bar we picked out wasn't big enough even though they said it was? Or how the big closet cabinets couldn't fit up our doorway so they had to take them back to their shop to cut them in half to then bring them back? Or how the zillion pound beverage fridge was broken and I had to haul it back to the UPS store? Or how they didn't order enough tile? Like so many things went wrong. 

Details details. We are happy with the end result. These pics don't show the big bean bag we got or the current state but this was when we were sorta moving stuff up there!