The race is on.

I have one weekend until my parents arrive for the Thanksgiving holiday.

I don't want to think about four adults in a house with only one toilet.

In the time I have left, I need to finish painting the walls, install the flooring, and install the toilet in our inside bathroom.

Confidence is still high. I have no idea why.

It would be nice to have finished the entire project by now (or about 8 months ago), but as some might remember, another project popped up.

Furthermore, what started out as a simple project to install a shower over a bathtub turned into an epic of absurd proportions.

For the morbidly curious, I present the current task list. Keep in mind that this list includes only the final steps. I wasn't doing the list thing when we started, so the list doesn't record the work we've already done, such as remove the old bathtub, pull off all the old, non-water resistant wallboard, marvel at the mold, sweat in new copper plumbing, ditch the old toilet, pull up the old vinyl flooring, puzzle over all the repairs in the underlayment, pull up the old, disintegrating underlayment, pull out the old vanity, goggle at the extent of rotting in the subfloor, gibber mindlessly at the patchwork of plywood that someone has nailed in to keep the toilet falling through the floor, reel in terror from confirming that the rot has turned the wall's floor plate to powder, install bracing so the roof doesn't collapse, cut out the rotted floor and wall, soak all wood with anti-bug and anti-rot borate solution, install new subfloor, install new tub, install concrete fiberboard on the shower enclosure and as underlayment with stainless steel hardware, tile the shower enclosure, replace all the ancient valves with quarter-turn ball valves, and curl into a fetal position for a few hours.

1. Tape walls and corners
2. Fix hole in wallboard under sink
3. Fill in transition from Hardibacker to wallboard
4. Sand all joints and filled-in areas
5. Primer walls
6. Texture walls
7. Buy door
8. Buy door trim
9. Buy door handle
10. Buy door threshold
11. Remove door
12. Install door
13. Install door hardware
14. Cut door trim
15. Prep/paint door trim
16. Install door trim inside
17. Install door trim outside
18. Buy vanity top
19. Buy inlet and outlet plumbing to vanity
20. Buy plumbing to toilet
21. Buy faucet
22. Install cabinet
23. Install vanity
24. Install inlet plumbing to vanity
25. Install faucet
26. Install trim on side of vanity
27. Fill gap in back of vanity inside
28. Fit shoe molding to vanity top (account for bowing in walls)
29. Paint shoe molding for vanity edges
30. Rough up walls where silicone caulk smeared
31. Knock down any obvious defects in texturing
32. Vacuum room
33. Mask tile, window, tub, vanity, door gaps, vent fan, light box, switches, toilet inlet
34. Paint lower part of walls
35. Mask lower part of walls
36. Paint upper walls, ceiling, door inside
37. Paint door outside
38. Paint window sill x 3 or 4
39. Install shoe molding around vanity top with clear silicone
40. Caulk shoe molding with clear silicone
41. Unroll vinyl floor and allow to rest 24 hrs
42. Install flooring
43. Install threshold
44. Install vinyl flooring in vanity
45. Caulk edge of vinyl in vanity
46. Install kickboard under vanity
47. Caulk along floor and vanity
48. Buy chair rail molding (mullion)
49. Cut molding to size/cope (crown, chair, base)
50. Prep molding (sand/fill/etc.)
51. Paint molding (door, chair, baseboard, crown)
52. Install chair molding
53. Install baseboard
54. Install crown molding
55. Fill in holes in molding and trim (door in and out, chair, baseboard, crown)
56. Touch up molding paint (door in and out, chair, baseboard, crown)
57. Caulk molding (door in and out, chair, baseboard, crown)
58. Scrub overspray from tile
59. Grout tile
60. Seal grout x 2 or 3
61. Install handhold
62. Install tub and shower hardware
63. Clean floor of goop
64. Caulk transition of tile to wall
65. Install tub side
66. Install toilet ring
67. Install toilet
68. Caulk toilet
69. Install medicine cabinet
70. Caulk windowsill/window
71. Caulk floor to tub
72. Buy/install shower curtain
73. Buy towel bar
74. Install towel bar
75. Install lighting fixture
76. Construct switch cover/paint/install

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