Out with the new.. in with the newer.

We have been enjoying being home owners and the part of making your home your own. Now I know it is pretty silly to be ripping apart a bathroom that wasn't broken.. but.. I didn't LOVE it. Overall the room just felt a bit scattered and not our style SOOO I set out to make it the way I imagined. Here is what we started with, I felt like the cabinet color was a little "country" themed, and certainly not my ideal color. The flooring just had issues, poorly cut and nearly half an inch higher than the hallway flooring.

This light was horrible.. Steve said it looked like a motor home fixture, you can also see the original color behind the cabinet, which was crazy high on the wall I might add.

Once we started on the demo, I started having fun!! I actually finished 75% of the tile removal AND moved the toilet outside while Steve was at work. We had to repair a bit under the original floor and took a peek see down under the house.

Once the floor was finished and everything removed, we painted the top section of the wall, lower wall was going to be covered with beadboard.

Steve replaced that old fixture, we found it on clearance at Lowes for $13

In order to get our new tile on the floor in a level manner we used a self leveling concrete as the base

I totally wanted to use penny rounds for my flooring, and found this tile that had the occasional black tile in it as well, I fell in love :)

we used a grey grout, I could NOT imagine using a white grout on a bathroom floor anyways, but I was especially pleased to find gray.

once the flooring was done we moved right along to the bead board, I would do my entire house in bead board if I could. ... or if it was acceptable I suppose.

Finished the base off with a baseboard, and then a rail along the top to finish it off..

Finished project:

I have returned back to this project to add some new switch plates, in a matching bead board style. The entire bathroom renovation cost about $550 and a weekends worth of time.