Final Bathroom Reveal

So happy to be finally doing a full bathroom reveal! It was a stressful process for me and a steep learning curve. I love a lot of different design styles out there and was nervous about committing to permanent choices and making decisions for every little thing. One of the reasons I’ve never wanted to build a house is that the idea of choosing every little knob, tile and light fixture makes me break out into a nervous sweat. What if I didn’t like it once it was installed? Or what if I wish I had gone a different direction?

The best thing about this bathroom has been getting to the end and not wanting to change a thing. High-five me!

If the intetnet was invented for the soul purpose of before and after photos, it would be a worthwhile invention.  Without further ado, here are some nasty before picture of our blue mid-century meets country bumpkin bathroom:

Wood paneling, blue tile everywhere, the floor crumbling to pieces + out of date fixtures (plus a stray piece of toilet paper on the floor–ha!)

Keep in mind, this bathroom was gutted down to the studs and the layout was completely reconfigured.

The original bathroom was much smaller. As you can see from the photo below there was a small hallway that led to the bathroom with two closets on either side. We pushed the bathroom out to the main hallway and made the closet on the right significantly smaller and kept the closet on the left, but changed the access to the closet from the other side. Also, if you look carefully you can see that the ceiling in the bathroom before was lower than the rest of the house. Apparently this was done back in the day to make the bathroom more “cozy.”

I plan to do a much bigger painting for this space, but put this one is as a small place holder in the meantime. If anyone is interested in purchasing this piece email me and I’ll send you pricing and details. 

One of the biggest headaches of this bathroom was the floor. You may remember from my update and remodeling tips post that I talked about addressing difficult problems with your contractor. Well we hadn’t yest crossed this bridge when I wrote that post and this was by far our biggest problem we encountered. When our tile guy first laid the floor it looked terrible. You could see where every individual sheet of tile was laid. (photo below left) At first they tried to fix it by going back and rearranging individual rowes of tile. When they finished “fixing” it, they were scheduled to come in the next day to install the vanity, tub, etc but the floor still looked terrible! My stomach was in knots. We were already waaaay over time, but I didn’t want to leave the floor like this. Of course I didn’t want to confront my contractor either, I knew this was going to be a tough conversation. However, I could not be paying this much money for this bathroom not to have it done right. So I talked to my contractor and we ripped up the entire floor and started over. Oi. It was hard. My contractor wasn’t happy about it, which I understood because it was coming out of his pocket, but it was the right thing to do. The second time around the floor was perfect. (Also, I just want to clarify that overall my contractor was great to work with–but the nature of the situation was just difficult. He stands by his work, was very professional and has a kind and trustworthy team working for him. If anyone in the Cincinnati area is looking for a contractor shoot me an email and I’ll happily pass his info along. )

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