Every Story Deserves a Happy Ending

I was going through my previous posts and realized I had posted on a project we had started BA (Before Accident).  I thought I would go ahead an update on that one. If you are interested in the first parts to this story, you can find them at the following links.  Don't worry... most are pretty short, mostly pictures:

http://ephemeralsg.blogspot.com/2012/03/operation-dads-here-for-visit-phase-1.html
http://ephemeralsg.blogspot.com/2012/03/operation-dads-come-for-visit-phase-ii.html
http://ephemeralsg.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-phase-are-we-on-we-will-just-call.html
http://ephemeralsg.blogspot.com/2012/03/floors-beginning.html
http://ephemeralsg.blogspot.com/2012/03/electricity-its-alive.html

So... when we left our intrepid explores, the water and electricity had been run and ... that was pretty much where the story ended for a while.  I think we had set the toilet, but once my Dad left, I sort of lost steam and had a million other things going on, so nothing else happened for a while.

Fast forward to January 2013.  I spent the month of December in the hospital and was ready to come home.  I had to stay at my sister for a few weeks for one basic reason.  I could not get to a commode in my house while in a wheel chair.  I was going to be in the chair for about 3 months, so my housemate moved the huge waterbed around the bedroom and cut through the wall from the bedroom to the new bathroom.  This was always the plan.  We had installed the pocket door on the bathroom side, but never cut through the bedroom side (because the hurkin big waterbed was in the way).  So... almost like magic!  One chainsaw later, I had access from the bedroom to the bathroom and could go home.

Fast forward a few months more.  My Dad had moved back here from PA -  partially to help take care of me, but mostly  because he was bored.  As soon as I was cleared to get out of the wheelchair, he took on my rehabilitation.... he took me for walks each day until I had built up enough stamina to help with some brick work (I will save that story for another post... heh).  Then we got back to work on the bathroom and here is what we ended up with:

View of the bathroom from the bedroom

View of the pocket door to the bedroom from the shower

View from the utility room...pocket door to bedroom to the left, shower and toilet to the right

I am very happy with how things turned out.  For something that started out as an old uncovered porch 80 years ago, I think it makes a very nice bathroom  :)