with y'all for a while now -
I do still enjoy blog posts - a space where I can go into a bit more detail about different things - but I also feel like I 'over-share' on social media [FB and insta] so I don't always get to the details in the blog - and I'm not really sure who might be interested anyway...
So ---- I do it for me... it helps my aging memory
when I get ready to scrapbook all the things.
Here goes -
The great bathroom update of 2019.
Or. If we're honest... 2018-2019.
Ha. Sometime in late summer 2018 our upstairs shower started leaking...not a BIG puddle in the kitchen, but definitely enough to show on the ceiling. So we stopped using it... and determined that it was finally time to replace the 1954 bathroom that we'd used for the past 15 years or so...
I saved this shower door.
Am I crazy?
It's just SO RETRO.
But I have no idea what I might so do with it.
And here's the deal -- I kept wrestling with the idea that I could do this renovation myself. I even attempted to beat the tiles out of the shower. But. Hello? This stuff was stuck on with about three inches of concrete grouty stuff. [ha.]
After going back and forth, and back and forth,
AND BACK AND FORTH
about DIY or hiring someone...in the end we hired someone...because we live a busy life and just don't have the time [or inclination to DIY.]
This is a cleaned up before picture -- [the toilet was actually blue when we moved in] - you can see that I'd started tearing down wallpaper [that came off surprisingly easily.]
You can also see the two cubbies here, that I love.
This is what our shower looked like before - minus the great retro door. We had this odd little area to the side that we had a cabinet from Target, I think.
So it was kind of nice to have the whole thing torn out to the studs...
And remember - they found this lose wire between the windows - where there has never been an outlet...[capped off safely here.]
Look how much roomier the shower area looks with that area opened up and over head wall gone! And surprisingly, we didn't have to replace sub floor from the leak. [Yay!!]
I took photos everyday, and I know y'all don't want to see all of those! But I'm always amazed how the smallest things each day make such a BIG difference!
We already had two cubbies on this wall and I'm so glad it worked out that I could have four! [Especially since we lost quite a bit of storage from that cabinet by the shower.]
But we got a bigger shower!
We* chose a soft grey color for the walls... and when it went on, it looked very white to me...but once all the trim [and ceiling] was in, there was good contrast.
At the beginning of this renovation I said that I'm not particularly particular.
Until I am.
*I picked a few colors of grey and let Craig and our contractor choose the final color..
And Craig found this vanity at a surplus shop [GREAT DEAL] and I gave it the okay...
because I really didn't have anything specific in mind...
But - the floors.
This basket weave tile was my splurge.
I wanted this.
And I'm so glad we got it.
I also love this giant subway tile.
[I honestly went back and forth between this and a large granite that might've been a little too fancy for our cottage bathroom.]
And I LOVE the ship lap on the ceiling. It makes me think of my gr-mother's house every time I see it. [Her walls were simple ship lap.]
I love the pig print Haley and Drew gave me for Christmas too!
KittyLou loves to play in the shower after we're out of it each morning -
We have glass doors that slide on both sides. [I want to be able to turn the water on in the shower without getting my hair wet...] Everything has a brushed nickle finish.
So I guess that's it - we love it all.
Oh. wait -
One other [very important] thing -
Many of you know that the upstairs part of our house is a bit quirky... things like the three closets in the playroom all have different doors [one slides, one opens out, almost life a bi-fold, and the other is a regular door..] and I love quirk. So it's all good. [We assume the previous owner finished this part of the house as he was able to get supplies...]
And for whatever reason...our bathroom door opened out INTO THE HALL.
And this has always sort of bothered me...
So while I didn't want to go all trendy with this bathroom re-do, I did want a door that wouldn't take up as much room. I found this one on-line but it was WAY more money than I wanted to spend. So we shopped around a bit for a used door [think front doors with windows - ]
... even found one that had a mail slot that I thought would be fun...
But! My super-shopper husband found the exact one at a local seconds store and it fits perfectly. [And it was about $500 less than on-line. - Yes, please.]
It's just the icing on the cake of the best Christmas present of the year!
And kind of worth waiting 15 years for - lol.
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