Let there be lights!

We finally have the lights in our bathroom hooked up. We really lucked out considering that we didn't measure... or really think ahead in their selection at all.

Firstly, the two sets touch with maybe a half inch between them. Pure luck.

Secondly, the two electrical boxes are not even with each other. The curve of the light rod hides the two different levels.

Sadly, our bathroom has some serious setbacks before it's finished.

1. The old mirror (which is in great condition) is 57 inches. The gap between the 2 tiled areas is 55 inches. Laura, why didn't measure beforehand? There were holes in the wall that looked like the anchors for the mirror--really. I didn't even question it. There were two whole lines of them. My tiling stopped right outside them. Now I have to figure out what to do. Oh well, not getting fixed before my birthday. People will just have to look at the ugly wall (it's all gappy and you can see the patches). We though the wall would be covered, so we didn't worry about making it perfectly smooth and awesome. *Sigh* The temp mirror will have to do for now. At least it has a nice frame?

2. Near the door is just... wrong. The wall isn't smooth because there used to be tile. I did patch over it. I probably just did a bad job, who knows. Anyway, the wall is bumpy and it makes me cranky. I need a new solution. Plus the little patch of "backsplash" tile looks enormously awkward. Gotta figure out how to fix that. I'll probably just live with that problem for an inordinately long period of time.

3. The shower pipe will not sodder. It's hard enough that parts of the wall try to catch on fire while you're soddering, but for some reason the pipe will not get hot enough to take the sodder. It's really frustrating because we can't finish the shower until that pipe is leakless. Suggestions?

PEBBLE!

You can see her side-part really well in these pictures. (Honestly, this is just to keep Heather reading the blog :-p)