Bathroom Update

My favorite plumbers! 

Dad and Chloe got everything hooked up and leak free this past week!

The knee space finally arrived and was installed incorrectly.  Are you surprised?  

Do you see the gap on the side of the marble under the sink top?  That should not be there.

So the cabinet people made a 5th trip to my house to day to make adjustments and add trim around the base.  I am finally happy with it, but my goodness I think I have some gray hairs!

We sure have come along way from the his and her saloon bathroom!  I never took great before pictures of the bathroom but here is a glimpse of what it looked like during demo.  It was ugly and chopped into 5 different areas!

Ahh this is much better!  There are still somethings that need to be done but we are fully functioning!

Weekend Happenings

 Chloe graduated from 8th grade on Friday!  Next year she will be in high school, so hard to believe!

Chloe with her her friends.

Emery and Chloe

Saturday Rich and I got a early start and had breakfast at Cracker Barrel.

Who knew you could get something other then eggs and bacon there. 

Next we hit up a couple stone yards to look at potential countertop options.  I am not a huge fan of granite.  I do not like all of the little specks.  I prefer something with movement.  However, it is one of the most practical and durable options with a decent price tag.

This is Giallo Ornamental, Rich really liked this one.

This is what I like!  I adore this marble slab, but at 60+ a square foot and with a possibility of staining, it was not an option...so sad.  I just love the look of it with the white cabinets, such a light and clean feel.

This is a granite called Silver Cascade.  The red is the reflection of my shirt and not in the granite.  I liked this one because it had a lot of movement like the marble. 

However, we ruled it out.  I think it was a little to contemporary for us.

Giallo Ornamental made it home with us. and I think it goes really well with the wall color and the cabinets.  Now we just have to choose a slab and get it installed on top of our cabinets that should be here by the end of this week!

We made one slight detour to the junk yard. 

They had a couple mantels but nothing big enough for our fireplace.  We came out empty handed but it was still fun to rummage around! 

Our master bathroom is not quite complete, but we are on the home stretch.  Unfortunately, I did not take too many before pictures but let me assure you the bathroom was ugly and the layout was strange to say the least.  Here are a couple pictures of what it looked like before and during renovation.

The shower was tiled in 6 x 6 peach with a black border and had one shower head.

"His" side of the bathroom.  

Separating the "his" side from "hers" was a saloon style swinging door with a toilet in the middle....it was strange...

"Her" side of the bathroom was PINK!

 

 As with most of the rest of the house we ripped out everything.  As my dad said, and now we know first hand, "the demo is the cheap easy part; putting it all back together is the expensive and hard part."

All the tile from the floor to the walls came down.

Rich tore out the soffit above "his" vanity.

All these walls came down because they were covered in tile.  These studs with the support at the top was once a linen closet, it all came down as well!

Once we were literally down to bare walls, Phillips plumbing came in to plumb our double vanity and our double shower. 

This is what it looks like today.  All we are using right now is the shower.  As you can see we are minus a vanity and toilet.  The blue hole will be the location of the toilet and the double vanity will be right beside it.

I hired a tile guy to lay the tile. If I had to do it over again, it may have taken us a month, but I would have done it myself.  He did a good job but I feel like I could have done just as good as he did...  In the main part of the bathroom we went with 12 x 12  polished marble laid on diagonal to make the bathroom look larger.

I am in love with my shower!  Since the shower is roughly 5'x4', Dad talked us in to putting in two shower heads.  So glad we did!  The other side of the shower is a mirror image of this picture, but off set.

We put 1" Carrera  marble hexagon tiles on the shower floor and in the insets.  On the walls we used 3"x6" subway tiles.

This floor is my favorite part of the bathroom so far!

So what is left? 

Just a small laundry list of things...

1.Pick out/install lights

2.Install toilet

3. Purchase a real shower door

4.Wait patiently for the vanity to arrive!

I ordered the vanity two weeks ago so it should be installed on the week of May 7th.  Who knew it took 6 to 7 weeks to make a vanity... 

I wanted to pick up the gray color in the marble so the vanity will be gun metal gray.

So what did we do with "her" side of the bathroom?  It will be my closet of course!  We have not put up any shelving yet because I have not decided on a layout.

5. Finish Callie's closet