A Relic from the Past

I felt that I just had to make a record of this ancient artifact from the town house renovation project. This item was a fixture at both of my grandmothers’ houses. This tiny paper cup holder graced the wall by the sink, providing the user with a tiny paper cup to rinse after tooth-brushing or, I assume, to swallow pills. This one, of course, went with the pink bathroom in the town house. note the color-coordinated cups. My other grandmother’s tiny cup holder was beige.

I don’t recall ever seeing these aside from my grandmothers’ houses, but I could have just been to young to remember.

Do you have any memories of weird old things like this? Do tell!

Town House: Progress!

Thanks to Handy Andy, some of our first projects in the town house are almost finished!

The old wall heaters are gone, with nice new sheetrock over the holes:

You wouldn’t know they had ever been there!

Look how nicely this one in the paneling was matched up:

 

Here are a couple of stages of the bathroom. I took this one after the wall tile and vanity were removed, and the sheetrock put up. That deep hole where the old vanity sat shows you just how thick a layer of concrete the builders put in. Why? The world may never know.

 

I’m feeling happier already as the sixties tile goes away! In the next one, the new floor has gone in. The vanity is in the room, but has not been hooked up yet.

What a difference a day makes!