Guest Bathroom

Remember back in this post I told you all the work we had done on our guest bathroom? Well today I have a little picture update for you. On day one we started with this bathroom.

We liked the shelves, the mirrored cabinet, and the fact that there was a window in the shower. Pretty much everything else had to go. Especially the blue and white tiling. Our first step was hiring a contractor and coming up with the scope of the project. To save some money we agreed to do the demolition and help with the easy things like hanging the towel rails and painting the walls.

Demolition of the bathroom came near the end of our first week of owning the house. This was the week that Marc had off of work so we had spent every waking hour working on the house. Unfortunately this meant that by the time we got to demolition we were lacking the energy to literally knock it out. Thankfully Marc's Dad volunteered to come up to Vermont from Connecticut and help us. He had the bathroom torn apart and cleaned up in what seemed like 20 minutes and saved us from probably hours of work.

Demolition done!

The next step was having the contractor put everything back together. The idea was to have a clean fully functional bathroom ready to go by the time we moved into the house at the end of July. But, if you've ever done remodeling before, you know that there's always something that gets in the way and for us it was a special tile order. Eventually everything got sorted out and for a while now Marc and I have been calling our guest bathroom done.

But by "done" we mean a beautiful upgraded bathroom that has a plywood floor, may have a few holes in the wall from installing the towel rail and might need to have the heater cover properly installed. It's definitely fully functional but before I can snap "after" pictures I would like to get the above taken care of. In the meantime here are a few snapshots of my favorite parts of the bathroom.

This is the light switch and the exhaust fan control. (1) I absolutely love that we have an exhaust fan. (2) I love even more that the exhaust fan is on a timer so we don't have to remember to go back in and turn it off.

These are the lights. Nothing special but I just love their shape. So much better then the outdated globe lights that used to be in the bathroom.

This is the absolute best part of the bathroom. This is a Moen shower head with an adjustable slide bar. This is the best shower head when you have one person who is 5'7" and one person who is 6'3". With the slide rail we can easily move the shower head up and down and Marc no longer has to crouch in the shower to wash his hair. It is also super easy to take a shower and not get your hair wet if, for example, you just got your hair cut and are getting cleaned up to go out for the night. I imagine it will also be a great shower when we have munchkins and want to lower the shower head so water doesn't get everywhere. This will change your life.

This final picture is a glimpse of the new vanity, counter top, faucet, wall color, and shower curtain. I absolutely love how it all came together and can't wait to show you the full "after" pictures. You know once that fix-it gnome comes over and finishes up in there.