Baby Raiden

Baby Raiden was born on October 15,2014.My last post was about our son Tristan and Marta's baby shower in Chicago.It seemed like a long two weeks until he was born!! So glad we have finally met our new grandson.We have been so busy that I never had a chance to share the news!.We went to Chicago twice in the past couple of weeks to visit with them.On our way to Chicago I remembered I had written to someone on Craigslist about purchasing a claw foot bath tub ( they lived in Chicago) for Marta and Tristan's bathroom. I rewrote the person and said I was in the city for the day and would like to see the tub.So after a while the man called me back about the tub.The bathtub was a really good price and we figured we would see it and buy it on the spot.The only problem was that we had my small sporty car and needed a truck to get the bath tub to my dad's house (where Tristan and Marta live).After trying to see who we could borrow a truck from we finally remembered you can rent a pick up truck at Menards (home improvement store) hourly for a good deal.So off we went to rent a truck after spending most of the day with Raiden and purchase the bathtub and the hard part was carrying this bathtub up to a second floor bathroom.I don't know how my husband and boys did it but they got it into the bathroom and by a miracle the bathtub fit in the spot(which was another challenge).My husband had built this bathroom years ago in the attic of my parent's home.When we lived there we had a mini size claw foot bathtub but the one we bought for Tristan and Marta was a full size claw foot tub.So this was the adventure the first day we met our grandson!!! Never a dull moment in our family.

Before it was a bathroom....

This is the basement when we first started to build my bathroom.It was going to be my retreat with my very own clawfoot bath tub!!!! It was a rough space in the beginning and it has been a long process!!!! Here is the before and after!!!!!

Vintage Bathtub

This is the claw foot tub that we picked up a few weeks ago.It was traveling to and from my husbands job in the back of our minivan until last night.I thought my fingers were going to fall off from frost bite when we carried it in.It didn't seem as heavy loading it but seemed extremely heavy unloading.I am going to paint the outside .Not sure what color maybe black? Two of the feet are brass plated so I need to paint it a color that will make them stand out.The reason we picked this tub from Craigs list was that it came with brass fixtures and all the extras(water lines,drain ,overflow etc.)I hadn't noticed until I took the pictures that it has the "hot" "cold" written on the handles!!!!! The person we bought it from had bought the tub and the fixtures 20 years ago intending to put it in his house but never did.This tub is going to go in my dressing room and if you have read my blog you would know that room (and my kitchen sink) was the reason I wanted this house!!! So it is a little sad that we are converting to a master bathroom but with 4 kids and one bathroom I'll get over it.I LOVE clawfoot bath tubs so I know in the end I will fall in love with the room when we are done!!!