.project seven: main bathroom

Here it is. The main bathroom of our house in all of its possession day glory. Very peach and very gross. The sink/countertop was cracking and splitting ↓↓↓

the walls had wallpaper under the paint ↓↓↓

The peach bathtub was stained and scratched up ↓↓↓

but we lived with it like this for over a year, although we did replace the toilet… too bad it was so hard to reach the flushing buttons underneath that counter top haha ↓↓↓

We finally started demolishing it in July of 2013. First went the huge mirror and countertop ↓↓↓

Then the vanity and toilet ↓↓↓

Then the tile and drywall around the tub ↓↓↓

  

and then the tub! IN ONE PIECE! Aaron is amazing ↓↓↓

 

He replaced all of the plumbing. And changed the poly butylene lines to pex ↓↓↓

Then we installed new wet rock and a brand new, beautiful soaker tub ↓↓↓

 

Now my problem was the fact that all the edges of the ceiling texture had been pulled off with the old drywall ↓↓↓

I had to search for a solution myself since we weren’t willing to pay someone to come again. I found this stuff ↓↓↓

So I took a big sponge and worked a lot of magic…. a lot! ↓↓↓

It wasn’t perfect… but with some elbow grease and a lot of time I made it work and blend together.

Here it is after I painted the whole ceiling (also after Aaron installed a nice new pot light) ↓↓↓

And then I painted the walls ↓↓↓

We cut out the spots with wallpaper and put new drywall patches in (now you can’t tell there used to be wallpaper under there, thank goodness) ↓↓↓

Floors were next. We used the same awesome laminate tiles we put in our kitchen. We love this stuff ↓↓↓

 

Finally we could start tiling the bathtub at the end of July ↓↓↓

 

And we finally installed the new vanity/countertop in August ↓↓↓

And once we finally finished grouting, the bathroom was almost done! Just missing a mirror over the vanity ↓↓↓

 

Air actually cut the big old mirror down to the size we wanted and he built a frame himself ↓↓↓

then I painted it white ↓↓↓

…AAAAAAND HERE IT IS! DONE. DONE. DONE. ↓↓↓

This whole project took us about 3 and a half months from start to finish… we think that’s pretty good considering how sick Air is... and the fact that we did the whole thing ourselves. haha Also there are still a few things I need to hang on the walls… but close enough.

It was a lot of work, but we love how it turned out.

Thanks for looking

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list of some products:

bathtub – Mirolin from Home Depot

tile – ceramic with grass texture from Lowes

shower curtain – Target

yellow towels and rug – Target

floors - Allure linoleum tiles from Home Depot

toilet – Costco

vanity and counter top – Lowes

faucet – Home Depot (Price Pfister)

clock – Target

Any questions?