Before and After
Public post, so I can share on Facebook! It's easier to see the before and after this way.
We have a functioning shower, but the wood trim still needs to be reinstalled and the toilet needs bolted down. These things will be taken care of tomorrow (and so will the major cleaning up, I suspect. I've already done some, but we have boxes of leftover tile and tools and other things scattered around that I don't know what to do with).
I took this picture when we first went through the house, before we bought it. It was staged, but you get some idea of how it looked. This isn't the best photo. But you can at least see the hideous wallpaper and the vinyl flooring.
Of course, I didn't get a picture of what the shower looked like.
To give you some idea, here's the guest bath. The shower in the master looked pretty much like this, only it had a blue pattern on the shower walls instead of pink.
(Needless to say, we'd like to replace the guest bath too. But at this point, that simply isn't possible. At the very least, I'd like to remove the wallpaper and paint it.)
Anyway, all that old Corian crap is gone (the shower didn't even have shelves for your shampoo and soap, for crying out loud!). Lance ripped out the nasty old shower door (although the new one is identical to the old one). Lance also pulled up all the vinyl flooring and we both scraped glue off the floor. I've been stripping wallpaper, slowly but surely. That's very nearly done, and then I'll paint.
Here's the new TILE floor!
Here's the NEW SHOWER! So excited!!
See that taupe accent tile and the matching trim? We have another strip of that accent tile going across the top. Also, the lighting is a little strange, so the color might be kind of off (the tile color looks different behind the door than it does in front of it), but you get the gist.
And we have shelves! And a place to put soap!
Of course, it's not totally finished. The walls need to be painted (although since we extended the tile up to the ceiling, there is less wall space than there was previously...YAY!) and I'm getting a new toilet paper roll holder and a new towel rack. But you get the idea. This isn't the most elegant or high-tech shower ever, but it's a vast improvement over the old one. And I'm still excited that the main tile we used for the shower was only $7 a box! Considering we're about to rent out the house, we didn't need to do anything super fancy for an upgrade.
We have a functioning shower, but the wood trim still needs to be reinstalled and the toilet needs bolted down. These things will be taken care of tomorrow (and so will the major cleaning up, I suspect. I've already done some, but we have boxes of leftover tile and tools and other things scattered around that I don't know what to do with).
I took this picture when we first went through the house, before we bought it. It was staged, but you get some idea of how it looked. This isn't the best photo. But you can at least see the hideous wallpaper and the vinyl flooring.
Of course, I didn't get a picture of what the shower looked like.
To give you some idea, here's the guest bath. The shower in the master looked pretty much like this, only it had a blue pattern on the shower walls instead of pink.
(Needless to say, we'd like to replace the guest bath too. But at this point, that simply isn't possible. At the very least, I'd like to remove the wallpaper and paint it.)
Anyway, all that old Corian crap is gone (the shower didn't even have shelves for your shampoo and soap, for crying out loud!). Lance ripped out the nasty old shower door (although the new one is identical to the old one). Lance also pulled up all the vinyl flooring and we both scraped glue off the floor. I've been stripping wallpaper, slowly but surely. That's very nearly done, and then I'll paint.
Here's the new TILE floor!
Here's the NEW SHOWER! So excited!!
See that taupe accent tile and the matching trim? We have another strip of that accent tile going across the top. Also, the lighting is a little strange, so the color might be kind of off (the tile color looks different behind the door than it does in front of it), but you get the gist.
And we have shelves! And a place to put soap!
Of course, it's not totally finished. The walls need to be painted (although since we extended the tile up to the ceiling, there is less wall space than there was previously...YAY!) and I'm getting a new toilet paper roll holder and a new towel rack. But you get the idea. This isn't the most elegant or high-tech shower ever, but it's a vast improvement over the old one. And I'm still excited that the main tile we used for the shower was only $7 a box! Considering we're about to rent out the house, we didn't need to do anything super fancy for an upgrade.