Sunday Snapshots

Weekend project progress! It was warm enough to cut tile outside yesterday, but today with a twenty degree drop, the garage is a bit warmer. Hope you are having a great weekend, too, doing whatever you may be doing! 

Making Progress in the Master Bath

This month has been filled with birthdays, visits with loved ones, a friend buying an adorable house, snowy days, work obligations, and so much more. In between all of this, Z has been continuously working on our master bathroom. 

For my birthday, my parents gave me a Lowes giftcard so this helped us get a large portion of the bathroom completed. We bought tile, tools, and a carpet for the  guest bedroom - which is also coming together nicely! I am so excited to see this coming together! 

Here is what we have done so far, since the last post:

Faux wood tile floor. 

Beadboard hung horizontally along wall. 

Trim put at seams of beadboard. 

Tile for insert of shower cubby. 

Tile for shower base. 

The room looks even better in person. We currently do not have lights in the room, so getting optimal pictures is a bit more difficult. Perhaps a video may showcase it more.

I am exploring paint colors and have a few ideas in mind. We are also scoping out IKEA sinks and cabinets. Our IKEA opens this Fall, but... We will see if we hold out that long for the final touches. Shipping or a road trip may suffice, too!

There is much more to come...

-E

Moving on the Master Bathroom

The last few weeks have been a milestone at our house. When we bought our house, we knew that someday we would want to update the master bathroom. This came sooner than anticipated. Months ago while Z was taking a shower, a tile fell out of the shower. At closer inspection, mold was behind it. We didn't know how extensive it would have been, so we ended up ripping out the entire bathroom. (It was bad.)

Fast forward to this past weekend. We used a Home Depot gift card we got for Christmas (thanks, Mom!) and bought a Shluter-Kerdi Shower Kit. Say that five times fast! We went all out when it came to preparing the shower. Since we discovered the mold, we noticed that the tile was not installed correctly. The previous owners installed it on top of the drywall - allowing moisture to get behind the wall, resulting in the mold. Since this will be an obviously wet area, we went all out with waterproofing this area. 

The shower kit took an entire day to install, but it will be well worth it. We are at the point now of installing tile! We have been looking at tile for a little while and the two reoccurring themes with tile are that it is expensive (or at least the ones I love) and that there are too many options.

Looking at possibilities and limitations of our bathroom are also considerations. We haven't settled on anything specific yet, but these images are our inspirations, I would say.

Love this faux wood shower from Madison Modern Home.

Love the horizontal bead board from Judith Balis Interiors.

This IKEA cabinet would save space in our small bathroom!

My mom is visiting this weekend, so we may go and look at tile with her. Sometimes it is nice to get an outside view who hasn't been staring at the project that we have for months. I am such a visual person, so looking through ideas and starting to think about what it will look like is beyond exciting! My Pinterest Board is overflowing with ideas. At night, I can typically be found laying in bed looking at ideas on my iPad. Feel free to check out the board to see what my inspirations are for this room! 

Today is going to be a perfect day to look at tile and inspirations online. I got a snow day which I am so thankful for. Sometimes it is nice to have an unplanned day off! This portion of the Midwest is supposed to get a sizable amount of snow! It is going to snow all day today. Today is the perfect day to curl up with trashy TV, a cup of coffee, and Oscar, Kiki, and Little Kitty Milo. Stay warm today!