Before and After: Main Bathroom

I'm a little late in posting pictures of our bathroom, but here it is, nearly a year after we started the project! We went from July to February without a working sink. Never again will I take washing my hands in a bathroom for granted! The bathroom was the biggest project of the whole house to date, and I love the outcome.

I didn't get great shots of the bathroom when we moved in, but I think you can at least tell it was in disrepair. I think I probably was afraid to step in far enough to get pictures, haha. The walls were weird blue and as you can see, they were filled with holes and general yuckiness.

I had been pinning away on Pinterest while we were thinking of how to remodel the house, and I really loved the scheme of black/grey/white with happy yellow accents. We settled on grey walls and then found tile at the ReStore for the floors. We installed a new white toilet and all new plumbing, as well. I took the picture of the flowers at a park near our house.

 

 

 

The tub was absolutely the most disgusting part of the bathroom. I adore a nice bubble bath, and I wasn't about to put the kids in this one either, so keeping the tub was just not an option. It was beyond clean-able!! It was a good thing we made the decision we did, because not surprisingly, David ran into lots of mold issues lurking behind the old tub, and he was able to get rid of it before installing the new one.

 

 

 

I had never bought a bathtub before, but I realized that they have all different depths. We found one that is 18" from the bottom to the top drain. We all really love the new, deep tub!

 



 

The vanity (you can kind of see it in one of the top before photos) was actually quite nice, but it was just too big for our small bathroom, and the top didn't go with my black and white scheme. David found both the top and bottom of our new one at the ReStore. Unfortunately, they did not fit together as well as we had hoped, so part of the delay in having a working sink was that it took him a long time to figure out how to get them to mesh without breaking the top. Those things are not cheap! He finally got it all working together, though, and I think it was worth the time we spent brushing our teeth in the kitchen for this.

We also added a ceiling vent fan and light, and painted the trim around the door white and the trim along the floor black. I looked and looked, but never did find a window covering I liked, so last weekend, we bought some custom frost and applied that to the bottom half of the window, as well.

I am so happy with this bathroom ... it's just what I pictured back in June 2013 when we first looked at our fixer-upper!