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Showing posts with label bathroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bathroom. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Master Bathroom

The sad thing about this room isn't actually that they paired a bold floral wallpaper with red checkerboard...it's that they used small pieces of checkerboard and couldn't even line them up! Just looking in this room will make you dizzy!
We gutted the entire thing (including the tub).
We installed a fiberglass shower pan and I tiled the shower walls.
This was my first tiling job, I've never tiled in my life. But I've seen it done, and I watch HGTV, so that means I can. Right? All while 5 months pregnant...
Our first livable space in the house. We moved in almost immediately after we had installed the bathroom vanity and toilet and went several months with no mirrors besides the old one we took down that was sitting in the hall downstairs. That made getting ready pretty interesting.
The bathroom now. Finished and decorated, the only thing I need to do is find some tile for a backsplash on the sink.
From the other side...
And a straight on shot of the vanity. At first I thought I'd miss the standard little drawer and big cuboard that a normal vanity has, and also worried about lack of counterspace. But we love the two sinks and the big drawers hold so much, plus we bought coordinating organizers that slide in the drawers for small things like makeup.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Downstairs Bathroom

The downstairs bathroom with it's outdated floral wallpaper. The DIYer that used to live here must have decided to jazz up the vanity counter a bit by glueing on black tiles. Straight to the formica countertops. And grout? Who needs grout...just glue it side by side! Everything goes.
View from the other side.
This bathroom took the backburner to most all other projects and didn't get started until Hez was around 5 months old. Embarassingly, it was once our little "break room" because when we moved in we had no sink to wash dishes or a counter for the microwave and coffee pot. But it started to get a little inconvienent for guests to have to go upstairs to our bathroom and with plans for some overnight visits from grandparents, we knew it was time to tackle it. After a lot of thought, we decided it was going to be well worth our while to leave the tub and have it refinished. This wasn't an option I had ever considered because I had no idea you could refinish fiberglass, I thought only porcelain. Had I known sooner I would have just kept the shower in our bathroom too! But for $300 we hired the job out and are loving our sparkly white tub!

Finally, a tile job where I'm not pregnant! Eli moved the light box and a switch to make room for the new vanity and cabinet, and plastered all the walls.

Done! And with one day to spare before our overnight guests arrived! I wanted the bathroom to be slightly fun since it is Baby's, but not scream kid's bathroom because it is also for guests. The greyscale alphabet curtain gave me exactly the look I wanted.


We still have a small list to finish: one baseboard, paint the bathroom door and cut it shorter so the rug doesn't catch, install the handles on the cabinets (have them), do a little backsplash (also have the tile, just need the grout and the time) and I would like to hang a small shelf above the toilet.

View from the other side.

Loving the tall cabinet for all storage space, perfect for lots of little baby towels and soaps!

Safe and cute.

The "hot" and "cold" art above the towel bar. I took these pictures...they are the kitchen faucet! I printed them out on regular paper on the computer because I just wanted to get them up, and I still have not developed the actual photos!