Diary of a Bathroom Remodel IV: The Finale!

Editor's note: I found it extremely difficult to take color-correct photographs in this bathroom. Something about yellow and white and sunlight or lack of sunlight... Anyways, the yellow is actually brighter and lighter than it appears.


For reference, here is the bathroom when we moved in back in December:

And a near-identical image from the newly-remodeled version:

Shower tile:

Bathtub and floor tile:

Beadboard on left wall:

Beadboard on right wall and pedestal sink and corner medicine cabinet:

Right side of wall with toilet and sink:

Look how much space is between the toilet and sink now!

Diary of a Bathroom Remodel: Part III

We're getting to the final stages in this bathroom remodel. Man, I waited so long to post about this that in re-cap time it seems as if it only took a few days, maybe a week, to finish it. But if I had posted in real time, you would have seen incremental changes each day. As in I would have had four tile posts, one for each day Cowboy H put tile up. "Look! Another piece of tile set today! Stay tuned for the next one in three days!"

Its not as if Cowboy H is a slacker. If you lived with him you would know he is anything BUT a slacker. Let me tell you, he likes to get things done. Its just between him working full time (plus overtime) and going to school and taking care of me (NOT easy) he didn't have much time to spare on the bathroom. But he managed.

See, here he is before the sun is even all the way up working away on the...

BEADBOARD!! (Yes, that is dog poop. Please ignore it. Thank you very much.)

We put a few layers of paint on the boards before putting them into the bathroom. Usually I use the term we pretty loosely, meaning Cowboy H is doing the work and I'm taking pictures. However, in this case, I actually helped. Yep, I helped paint.

Then I made a huge mess and was told to stay behind the camera. Its much better that way anyway.

The beadboard and its accompanying trim were installed on the bottom third (roughly) of the bathroom walls. No paint, tile or wallpaper here!

Now, it just needed a final layer of paint to touch it up. Of all the steps in this remodel process, I have to say that this made the most difference. The white really opened up the tiny space and the beadboard itself added a whole new dimension.

Next up: the finished product!

Diary of a Bathroom Remodel: Part II

Next step: paint!

Cowboy H painted the walls one morning while I was at work. He's such a hard worker.

After the walls were painted, Cowboy H laid the floor tile.

Mama H picked the most expensive floor tile there was. Made in Spain. Oops.

It sure was pretty though.

(Notice how the bottom of the walls is not painted yellow? Just wait and see what's in store. Or, can you guess??)

Cowboy H's grout job was awfully pretty too.

Diary of a Bathroom Remodel: Part I

You may remember this bathroom from our Homestead walk-thru a while back. This is the "guest bathroom". It sits right at the end of the hallway and was hideous.

This is the first major project we started at the Homestead. The first step was to completely gut it. We tore all its innards out (sorry no pics) and then let it sit like that for a few weeks. (Hey, we got busy!). It was like a big black hole.

After all the supplies came in and Cowboy H was able to clear a few days in his schedule, he started on the shower/tub area. We decided to tile the shower walls so he put new backing up and patched up the drywall on the surrounding walls. Then we got to put the new tub in!

The next step Cowboy H had planned (he's a master planner in case you were wondering) was to tile the shower. I was soooo excited to have a real tile shower! Cowboy H set up a work bench outside our back door where he laid out all the pieces for each wall one at a time. Then he carefully measured and cut so that each "wall" would fit perfectly onto the wall it was going on.

Ta-da! Pretty pretty tile. This was only the beginning, but it had already completely transformed the bathroom. It was so nice to be making progress toward the end result, finally!