Round 2

Today we dove into our second round of projects. Actually, I think this is probably round 4 or 5, but this is our first project of 2009. Brad has taken this Thursday through Tuesday off and we're going to attack this project full force.

We spent yesterday purchasing the majority of the large items for the remodeling of the girl's bathroom. Today we started the gutting of the room so that by Thursday, when Brad is off, we'll be done with demo and ready to start remodeling. So for the next few weeks we're all sharing the one sink in our master bathroom, which is the next big project that probably won't happen until later this summer.

Below are all the "before" pictures. The bathroom is odd...similar to a hotel set up with one vanity and a linen closet in the first room, then the second room has a full bath. Ideally we wanted to knock out the wall dividing the two rooms and install one large vanity. However, the wall with the door dividing the two sections of the bathroom is a load bearing wall and attached to the exterior wall. Since this isn't our dream home and somewhere that we'll be long term, we figured we'll do a complete remodel with the same floor plan to keep the costs from skyrocketing while maximizing the potential for resale in a few years.

There are a few pros to this design since Baileigh has started asking for more privacy...she is able to be in the full bathroom portion and take her shower while the other girls can wash up for bed and brush their teeth at the same time in the other room.

I already removed the wallpaper in the first portion of the bath, now I need to strip the wallpaper in the second portion. I decided to wait until Brad did his demo in hopes that he would rip out a lot of sheet rock to eliminate me having to strip as much wallpaper.


We're ripping everything out...the vanity, toilet, tub, lights etc. We're putting in a white toilet and tub and then we're tiling the floor (both rooms) and custom tiling around the tub. We've purchased espresso cabinets and granite counter tops for the vanities. We're going to change the lights like we did in our half bath...we'll seal up the canister lights that are currently in the ceiling and then hang wall mounted fixtures over the mirrors.

It was easier to rip out all the sheet rock around the tub then to try to carefully remove the tile off the wall. We're going to tile to the ceiling around the tub which I think is a great idea since it means I won't have to worry about stripping wallpaper in that section!


The supplies...new tub, vanity, sinks, toilet, tile etc...right next to all our containers with Christmas decorations. We're not motivated to put them in the basement and organize our storage room. So they'll sit while we remodel...I'd rather focus our energy on the bathroom project anyway.
I'm assuming this will take 2-3 weeks depending on any unforeseen problems. I'll keep you posted.