The Loo

I'm full of pictures and posts this week!  I'm going to break the bathroom update into several posts because it's going to take several weeks...maybe months.  The bathroom was the most updated room in the house, which put it firmly last on our list of to-do's.  Now that we've cruised through most of our house projects, I'm ready to take this beast on.  The former homeowner, let's call him Hank, really gets my proverbial goat.  He should have just left the house the way he found it so that we wouldn't have to go back and fix his nasty choices.  Exhibit A:

 

Hank thought it would be super sweet to frame the mirror with individually laid glass tiles in a variety of sea foam colors.  I admire his creativity, as you all know we're taking creative liberties with our home that we will most definitely regret some day.  Did he have to lay them individually?  Mesh backed tiles weren't invented three years ago?  To repeat myself from yesterday's post, the only thing I know how to do are demo and paint.  So I thought I'd grab a wonderbar and a hammer while Dave was out running errands and get after that tile.  It took me about an hour to get half of the tiles chipped off and it was hard work (for me).

 

At this point, I'm feeling really good about myself.  No pain, no gain...blah blah blah.  Dave comes home just after I snap this picture and asks if he can help.  I thought it would be some great bonding time...until it took him (literally) 45 seconds to demolish the rest of the tiles.

He put the claw part of his hammer at the top of the tile and dragged down bringing every single stinking tile with it.   I knew this was going to happen, too. After watching my dad and uncle tear down our kitchen wall in five minutes with brute force, I figured there had to be a better, albeit messier, way to do this.  I tried hammering the tiles and was afraid I was going to put a hole through the wall.  My mistake.  The good news is that now the tile is done and we have a big mirror from our last place to rest there until it can be filled and patched.  Here is a little preview of the rest of the bathroom;

 

  

We have high hopes for this bathroom...things like Moroccan stencils, gray wainscoting, Anthropologie fixtures and an enclosed linen closet made from our old kitchen cabinets.  So red, hot and green!