Bathroom Remodeling

We decided a few months ago to redo our guest bathroom. It had been painted a purply mauve over top of old wallpaper. After many attempts at trying to remove the wallpaper without tearing up the wall board, we decided to just gut the bathroom. So that we did. We started the project at the end of August and are still working on it. It has taken much longer than we anticipated. There are so many details!!!!! Here are a few things that had to be done:

* redo plumbing

* install a fan in place of the can light that no longer had insulation on the wires - YIKES!

* Add a third switch

* remove all the old caulk off the tub

* replace rotted wood under toilet - perhaps the only thing holding up the toilet was the pipe under it!

* fill in holes in concrete - for some reason the floor of the bathroom was concrete under the tiles.

* put up new dry wall, mud the walls, let it dry, sand, remud, dry, remud, sand - over and over!

* prime dry wall

* mark out tile layout for floor and walls

* cut tiles, lay tile, let it dry

* grout tile, let it dry

* paint walls (finally! This is what started the whole project in the first place!!!)

* paint walls a different color - we hated the first color we picked

* sand, prime and paint beadboard

* cut and hang beadboard.

That is about where we are right now. There are a thousand other details all mingled in these larger steps. I am so glad that Eric is an engineer and thrives on these details. They've been driving me crazy. But I know it will look better since we have paid attention to these details. We still have to finish cutting and hanging the beadboard and there are a ton of finishing details still.

Here are some pics starting with the before picture, then the demo, then each step up to now.