Thanks for understanding… I tried to reason with Mr. but he said that he would rather live in dirty undies than risk a negligibly small risk of a disaster. This is the guy who has all bookcases secured to the walls… sigh. But the LG washer/dryer had to go! The Miele washer alone weighs more than the LG stack… kind of tells you something about the quality.
Can you get a clothes line? When I used one the only things that didn’t dry well were towels and socks. You could take them to the laundromat or a friend’s house.
Wash and fold service. I’d do that before spending one more hour in a laundromat.
Thank goodness I already have a clothesline which I plan to use. Hope our September is not going to be very rainy. 
The Miele spins laundry almost dry, so even the towels are going to be ok. I stocked up on kitchen towels and washed everything as if prepping for an emergency. The old towels will go to the pet shelter as soon as we get the laundry room in order.
I agreed to the “remodel” because the broom closet was stupid. Too deep and impossible to add shelves without a major effort to turn it into a storage cubby.
We are nearing the finish line with our remodel. Maybe they will be done next week. Today they are installing the bathroom plumbing, grouting the tile floor (we have wood floors in the living room, hall and bedrooms, with a tile that looks like wood in the kitchen, dining and family room), and starting the baseboards. Glass shower door is getting installed Tuesday. Rain gutters are being installed on Wednesday. We are waiting on front door and hood chimney (ceiling is at angle so had to be custom cut), after which the stovetop will be installed. The backsplash in the kitchen was installed yesterday and I absolutely love it. My recent-graduate son has been living with us throughout the remodel searching for a job. Wouldn’t you know it, he starts his new job (6 hours away) in two weeks. 
Our entire house (aside from the two beds we are sleeping on) is in the garage. My plan is to move everything in VERY SLOWLY and dump as much as I can.
So the house is almost done. The glass door is getting installed in the shower today so we should be ready to move in. I picked up a nice new trash can, toothbrush holder, cup at TJ Maxx. I intended to pick up a new bath mat, towels, etc… but I am stumped about what color to get. The floor is white marble tile, the shower is a Carrera marble subway tile with a different variation for the soap dish and floor of the shower. The vanity is white with white quartz counter top. The fixtures are chrome. Do I go with a bright color? Stick with white? Suggestions?
We picked a mix of off-white and turquoise towels for a similar light colored bath. The good thing about towels and rugs - if you get tired of them, toss them!!!
Black.
dark grey
Got a fancy 50-page full-color Kohler design book in the mail today. How did they know I might be redoing a couple of bathrooms? Creepy.
It will be a cold day in you-know-where before I pay $1,800 for a toilet, though.
Debating if I need to recycle this before DW gets home, because if she catches a glimpse of the $2,400 “Real Rain” overhead shower panel with 775 nozzles with Deluge mode that basically dumps a bucket of water on you, I may be doomed.
Apparently black is the “in” color - black walls, black doors and windows, black ceilings, black cabinets, black sinks, black light fixtures. Just seems gloomy to me.
I got the same stupid catalog… Hmmm… Also redoing a bath. Yup, just what we need - the $1,800 toilet. And I thought $500 for a toilet was a robbery!
No black paint or fixtures in our house. When we keel over, the mourners can wear black.
LOL
$200 tops for a toilet in my book
And don’t ever put in a dark colored toilet or sink …have you seen what they look like after just 1 year of calcium and soap build up?? Yuck
Not springing $1300 on a kitchen sink either, black or otherwise.
Although if anyone put in a kitchen like that, it’s probably not to cook in, it’s just for your friends to admire. So cleaning it won’t be a problem. 
Demolition started right on time today. The first thing to go was the 5’x6’ mirror that was glued to the wall above the vanity. I kept waiting for the crash, but they got it off the wall in one piece, it was held in place by a grid of round adhesive spots, maybe double sided tape?
You win some, you lose some, The water shut offs for the vanity sinks? Nice, but they don’t work. Aarrggh.
My mom’s guest bath has black fixtures. The shower tile and floor tile is also black. It looks beautiful the first hour after cleaning person is done. After that it looks awful. Shows every bit of dust and fuzz and water spots - just impossible to keep looking nice.
I bought all new white towels for my new bath because I wanted room to look like beautiful spa baths do in chic chic hotels. And their towels are always white.
My Kohler toilet was only $1000. It’s beautiful looking, imo.
The roofers are done cleaning the shakes and installing new skylights. Velux is $$$$ to replace. Tomorrow, the fun continues with cracked shake replacements and odds and ends… after “babysitting” them for 2 days, I am so sold on the Tesla roof!!!
Do you get enough sun in Seattle for a solar roof?
Plenty. You don’t need sun shining like a newly minted penny to generate electricity. Overcast is fine. We also do not have the extreme temp. that affect the efficiency of solar panels… The only issue is whether this old house can support the weight of the roof.
When the roofers are done, we should be good for 5 years. In that time, there will be enough early adopters to test the solar roofs for us.
What about rainy skies?
Some people I know who wanted to put panels up were told their lots were too treed and/or aren’t facing in the right direction to be a good candidate for solar. Maybe it’s different if the whole roof is solar.
Trees are an issue. Rainy skies are not!