To the left, you can see the before pictures. There was an old vanity from the 1970s, a toilet that had a date inside that said 1974, a textured wallpaper, and a little bit of mold.
The hubby was doing a bunch of work in the girls' bedrooms, so I decided to remove the wallpaper and get the walls ready to paint. As I was doing this, I discovered mold behind the toilet and vanity. The next thing I know, we've pulled out the wall, the vanity, the toilet, and the floor. I had only planned on painting, but the guest bathroom seems to go the way of the rest of the house!
I also wanted to get a new tub, but Hubby thought we could salvage it and he really hates doing plumbing, so no new tub for me.
We put up cement board since it is right near the bathtub and after much patching and sanding, we painted. We went with the same color as one of the daughter's room (Early Riser from Magnolia Farms), but with all of the patching and not having an expert drywall seamer, we noticed that it really showed any imperfections in the walls. It took a lot of patching and sanding to make it all look right, but we got there.For the floor, we weren't finding anything that we really wanted at any of the big box stores, so we took a trip to Floor & Decor where they had a really wide selection of tiles. We decided to go with a ceramic tile because we both just loved it - Florentina Gray Ceramic tile. Maybe we liked it so much because we spent some time in Florence this summer! Whatever it was, we both agreed and we really liked the price of 99¢ square foot. With a small bathroom, we spent about $60 on the tile. We bought a darker gray grout and sealer and we were set to start tiling.
I won't go into all of the details of tiling, but I really hate it (even though the hubby does most of the work). It took us about three days to tile, let it dry, grout, let it dry, then seal the tile, but it was worth the wait and I really love it!The vanity came from Indy Surplus Liquidators. If you haven't followed them on Facebook, it is definitely worth looking at. They buy truckloads of returns from WayFair or other companies like them and then sell them at a greatly reduced price. We got the vanity with a marble top for $250 (regular price at WayFair was $850). It has one small scratch on the bottom, but I can definitely live with that - it is covered up by the wastebasket anyway!).
The parents got us an Amazon gift certificate for Christmas, so a new light came from there. We purchased the new toilet from Costco (people rave about the Water Ridge Dual Flush toilet from the warehouse only) and got the new mirror from Menard's (Delta Mirrors).
We still have to replace the outlets and put covers on, and we want to add doors to the shower, but here is the (mostly) finished product.
