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Musing on marraige, housework, home improvements, and such.Archive for Bathroom Renovation
Oh the humanity!
Ok, maybe it is a little dramatic to compare my bathroom renovation to the disaster of the Hindenburg. But just a little. The painting of the pepto pink has made it a bit better, and my handy husband hung some glass shelves I found at Target for 20 bucks each.
So there’s progress.
I am having trouble with choosing the floor. The one thing I liked (see earlier post) was WAY to expensive (it would be about 400 to do our tiny 27 sq ft) So I am going with a cheaper option from Lowe’s and mixing in a few of the expensive glass tiles. Picture more of the blue tiles throughout the beige….
The light tile is $2.68 a sq foot at Lowe’s, and the glass is about $20 a sq foot. I think I will need approximately 2 of the glass sheets to put into the light ones (thats 3 glass tiles in every sheet) Here is a close up of the glass…
This will cost about $125 to do, which is better for my husband and (my) mental health. What do you think?
The 50’s bathroom makeover begins now!
Ok, so I have a hideous pink and green bathroom (which you can peek at in my header) eek.
So I would like to start the remodel in earnest, and my plan is as follows-
- Paint away the pink. This will be changing to a blue/white
- Replace the fixtures in the tub and shower
- Tear out the toilet, sink/vanity.
- Tile the floor.
- Replace the toilet, sink/vanity with a toilet that don’t whistle like a tea kettle when flushed, and a sink/vanity that is not awful. Right now my sink is shaped like a shell, and my faucet has wooden handles. Boooo.
- Replace medicine cabinet
- Install a light over new medicine cabinet.
- Install fart fan. (yah, I said it.)
Somewhere in there we need a new window, but I am not sure when that is going to happen, so consider it a footnote the the official list.
So the paint has been done, check out the white/blue. (much better than pink!)
So now I have to figure out what I am going to do about flooring to match the mint green wall tile. I can’t bring myself to commit to ripping the walls out, so we are just going to make it work.
This is what I have, you can see my current floor, the walls, and the samples I received in the mail (really quick too!)
This is what I think I want, it’s a glass tile, and I think a green would go best. (White would look best, but I can’t bring myself to do it, it’s so hard to keep it looking clean with the random cat hairs…)
http://www.glasstilestore.com/category_s/23.htm
These are the 2 I like best (the 2 on the left)
I think I am going to go with the frosted green glass one.
Next step is measuring and ordering!
