Days 11 and 12: Major progress

I'm just going to skip yesterday's "in progress" photos since basically all add up to what took place today. Yesterday, Roberto fixed the bullnose tile alignment like we asked and then pretty much spent the day grouting. I took pictures but today's complete overshadow them.

Today when Roberto took a break for lunch (that guy works really hard, putting in a long 9 to 5:30 with a short break for lunch on a Sunday!), we snuck up to find that our walls were painted and there was a hole for the medicine cabinet. We had been wondering about when that hole was going to appear--I am at a complete loss as to the correct order of operations here, so I would have expected the cut sooner and was getting nervous that it had been forgotten. But I should not have worried--when he opened the wall up, I saw that the framing was already there and that the stud had been shaved back to make room (move visible in the second photo):

And now, some eye candy as the room actually begins to look like a bathroom again:

The toilet isn't actually hooked up yet, and there's no sink or any shower fixtures, but it is definitely beginning to look like something! D regrets his paint choice just a little. When we put the sample up on the wall, we were working with very poor lighting conditions. Now he sees (what I was telling him all along) that the blue he preferred was a little purple and not quite as gray as we wanted. For those keeping track, it's Behr Flat Enamel in Russian Blue. But we definitely don't hate it enough to try painting over it any time soon. I have dreams of being able to master the "linen" or "raw silk" effect from the Martha Stewart Decorative Painting Tool Kit to add a glaze top coat. (It would help if I actually started practicing. Hard to master something when you've never tried.) If I do, I'll use a slightly grayer tone.

Regardless, we're really getting there. We have a fancy shmancy timer for the fan (rightmost switch), a gorgeous heavy-duty medicine cabinet, and finally some lighting. There was a small problem with the sconce lighting for on top of the cabinet. Namely, that it never actually arrived. We have the invoice. And we have a box that has a shower head in it and a label on it that says 100W Sconce. So the company our contractor buys from made an oopsie. Fortunately, this is their problem, and it will be fixed tomorrow.

Also tomorrow, this pretty baby should finally get a permanent home. Ain't she something?!

A brief cat update--I think both of them are relieved that the noisy tile cutting is over. This is how our more nervous cat has been spending his days: camouflaged to look like laundry (we actually deliberately left him a small pile of things that we don't mind getting wrinkly and hairy because we know how much he likes to hide on/in it).