Bathroom Reveal Part 2

So, finally the post has come.  Time to show you all the final photos of the bathroom!  Once all the shower tile was up and the floor tile was put down, it was time to put the bathroom back together.

Shower door in

Final Reveal! 

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Details of the Renovation:

1. Shower Tile - The Tile Shop/Meram Blanc Polished 12x18" tile
2. Shower Glass Tile - The Tile Shop/Woodlawn Stria 12x12" tile
3. Floor Tile - The Tile Shop/ Yale Mica  12x24" tile
4. Wall Tile - The Tile Shop/ Yale Cenzia 6x24" tile
5. Toilet - Lowes/ American Standard Champion 4
6. Vanity - Menards/ Pace Charleston Series 36" vanity
7. Mirror - pulled from our half bathroom on the mail floor 
8. Over the toilet cabinet - Lowes/Style Selections
9. Picture - Lowes
10. Shower Fixtures - Delta fixtures purchased from Amazon: Shower Head, Diverter, Valve
11.  Sink Faucet - Menards/Pfister Solita faucet
12. Counter - Home Depot/Home Decorators Collection Carrara
13. Light -Lowes/Portfolio
14. Towel Rack - Amazon
15. Towels - HomeGoods
16. Shower Base - Home Depot
17. Shower Door - Menards/Maax Halo 60 inch shower door  
18. Shower Shelf - Lowes/Delta Providence

This list doesn't include the extra items that we purchased as part of the renovation.  There was the cement board for the shower walls and the floor, waterproofing for the shower, caulking, grout, thinset, tile saw, paint, etc. 

We learned a few money saving tips along the way.  Lowes credit card holders save 5% off purchases all the time.  Occasionally, they will also mail out coupons for $25 off a purchase of $250 or more.  Menards runs their 11% off rebate offer about once per month.  If you purchase something from Menards on a Saturday and see the next day they are running the 11% off sale, ask about getting the rebate offer.  This is how we ended up getting 11% off of our garage door.  Watch sales; they generally rotate and if you miss a sale on an item, it will probably go on sale again in a couple of weeks.  Plan ahead and shop online.  We were able to purchase our fixtures from Amazon, which saved us a ton of money.    

I know by doing the project ourselves, our timeline for completing the project was expanded.  However, the money we saved in the end by doing it ourselves, with a little help from some family and friends, was worth it.  Luckily, we had a second full bathroom we were able to use while ours was under construction.  It is nice to have a functioning master bathroom again and not worry about water pouring through our kitchen ceiling from the shower above.  We have learned a lot during this renovation and are already planning the renovation for the guest bathroom.  We have a few years to plan that one out though! 

Finally.... The Bathroom Is Complete!

Three months and a few thousand dollars later, the bathroom makeover is complete!  We have been able to use the bathroom for about a week now, and it has been amazing.  We put some of the final finishing touches on the bathroom today.

Before I show you the after, I'll go through the bathroom evolution.  We started with tearing everything out down to the studs

 

Original 1980's oak bathroom 

 My makeover on a budget from last fall 

We had to take everything out to get the stall shower out. 

 

Vanity gone 

 Hunter green tile and yellow linoleum out

Down to the studs with new plumbing in 

Time for some reconstruction 

Shower base down 

Cement board going up

  Cement board all done

 Waterproofer up in the shower and popcorn texture down off the ceiling.  

Retexturing the ceiling 

 Primer on the walls

Paint up on the walls 

Time for the tile to go up!

Time for floor tile ...

 

I'm pretty proud that I put these floor tiles down! 

Done 

Now for the grout!

Grouting the glass tile was very time consuming.

Black grout on the floor

Stay tuned for the final touches....... 

Office Update

A while ago, I posted about redoing my office.  Spending full days in my basement office, I needed something a little more upbeat.  I loved the blue I had in there before, but it was time for something brighter.  Since the stormy blue color that was down there before was a lot darker than the pink I was planning on painting, I knew I needed to put up a coat of primer first.  I'm glad I did because the pink turned out very true to the color sample I picked.  I used Valspar, "Barely Pink".  I didn't want to use something that would look like a stick of bubblegum. When I was working on this project, Lowes had just introduced the HGTV Home by Sherwin Williams collection, so I thought I would give that a go as my Navy color option.  I went with the color "Naval". 

Before

 Blue from before.

 This is the wall my desk used to sit on.

 New to me desk.  This desk gives me much more storage space! 

 My inspirational pillow "follow your heart" from Kirklands.  

I had a 20% off coupon and shipped it to the store, so shipping was free. 

 

When I changed desks, I lost my file storage.  I picked this one up at Goodwill. 

It was originally marked at $14, but I got it for $7.  They were running a 1/2 off deal if you took the furniture with you at the time of purchase.   

 A couple coats of Zinsser primer and two coats of white spray paint.  

I also painted the handles gold.

 A few photos on the wall!  I picked up all the photo frames while I was at Goodwill.  They ranged from $.99 to $2.99 for the large ones.  I hit them with a coat of spray primer.  Once dry, I used white and gold spray paint. 

For the photos on top of the desk hutch, I used a 12x12 canvas I picked up at Lowes.  I didn't like the pattern on the canvas, but I just painted the edges navy and used a piece of scrapbook paper and some modge podge. The framed "N" was an 8x11 1/2" piece of burlap mounted to a photo frame.   

I picked up the rugs at Target.  They are Threshold brand and were $12.99 for the small one and $24.99 for the larger one.  However, if you keep an eye out on Cartwheel, they will occasionally have a 20% off cartwheel offer.

I spent about $40.00 at At Home on accessories: a gold vase, a bush of pink peonies, a white metal desk organizer, and a new blue cushion for the rocking chair.  I also bought two $1 metal pans from The Dollar Tree and sprayed them with metallic gold spray paint.  I'm using them to hang magnets that I have accumulated for work.

My entire office area has a little more clutter right now than I would like, but it is looking a little more put together.  Total office makeover budget was around $150.  I tried to keep costs down by using things I already had at home.  A lot of things were freshened up with a coat of metallic gold spray paint to fit with my color scheme of white, gold, navy and pink.