Goodbye Blue Tub

Today was a major step forward for our bathroom! After months of working with and around the blue tub, we had a couple of guys come and reglaze it to a wonderful white. They arrived around 8:30 this morning, and after a lot of chatting and taping and more chatting, they left around 11 and our tub was shiny white and new again. I'm so used to seeing it blue it was hard to believe it had changed color. As I looked at it I kept thinking it was still blue, at least in shadow. Alas no, it is white and it looks beautiful! We also installed some pretty awesome shelves into the tub enclosure. We had hemmed and hawed about how to do this. Initially we were planning to put corner shelves in, but uh, our walls are not square so the corner shelves did not line up with either wall from the corner. And frankly, the corner shelves looked a little cheap. Then we considered buying a nice stainless steel shower rack and installing it through the tile. That would have proved much more work since a lot of things rust in Michigan. So we found these great shelves that look like bricks, and chipped out a few tiles and cemented in the shelves. They are wonderful. Each of these little jobs makes a huge difference, especially now that we are closing in on having two working bathrooms again.