our boys' bathroom progress

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Here we are five months in on this house and we don’t have any rooms we can be proud of yet BUT we’re getting there! If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times, home takes time and I have to make this my mantra especially when the impatience starts to creep in. Living in a complete remodel is no joke! We did not live in our last house during the remodel (more on that one here , here and here) and it is a whole new ballgame to live in your house while completely tearing it up! We are anxious to get the upstairs kids’ bathrooms complete because the front exterior is supposed to start the end of April and will require tearing into our bathroom (the one all five of us are sharing right now). So, unless we want to rent a port o potty we must get busy!

Here is the one upstairs kids’ bathroom the day we closed on the house. We are making this one bathroom into two, one for Cline and one for Grafton and Jude to share. More on Cline’s bathroom progress here.

As soon as we got home from closing on this house, Tom got right to work demoing the entire bathroom.

After everything was out, we built a wall to separate Cline’s bathroom from the boys’.

Tom and his dad hung the drywall. It’s starting to look like a bathroom again.

And this amazing tub went in. I love the square, clean lines. Perfect for our design plan in here.

Anyone else get quite as excited about drywall mud as me? This means PROGRESS!

Water proofing the shower.

The first coat of paint, keep the progress coming!

Prepped for tile.

Installed the tile

Ran into a problem, do you see what I see?

Demoed all the tile Tom just installed. He’s a hardwood professional, not a mosaic tile professional. Though he has installed tile before, small mosaics are a beast if you aren’t familiar. I plan to write a whole blog post on that in itself soon.

After all the brand new tile was demoed, Tom added a self leveler. You can still see the circles where the pennies were just days before.

Tom gave up on the tile. We ordered more pennies and hired a professional tile installer.

To save money, Tom did grout after the installers installed the floor and wall tile.

Much better but I still see lines, even from the professional. This makes us feel both frustrated and glad that it wasn’t just Tom.

Almost finished grouting the wall tile. We went with charcoal grout for a moody, tone on tone look in here.

I planned on a green vanity for the boys in the original mood board but It was on major back order. A friend suggested I add some green through a wall treatment to get my green in. She is a genius!

We tested three greens, keeping in mind, the boys’ bathroom has no natural light (the one original window is now in Cline’s bathroom since we separated them).

And this is where we are now….5 months later. We went with Sherwin Williams Rosemary for the vertical lap. We’re waiting on the vanity to arrive, hopefully this week. Then, the fabricator will install the marble and the plumber will install the toilet and fixtures. The glass company will install the glass around the tub. My dad will help us with the pendants and Tom will hang the mirrors. We are SO close to getting those boys a bathroom!!!