Life Doesn't Go As Planned and Neither Do DIY's

Life hit me like a ton of bricks in 2021 so I had to focus on me. It took a bit longer than I wanted but I am back and so are the home renovations and some. 

Just as life doesn't go as planned neither do the projects. In January of 2021 I started taking all the stuff out of the bathroom and then my motivation stalled. This is when life hit and I had no energy to think about anything house related. So the bathroom went from looking like this:

to looking like this for the next year and three months.

 Now remember when I posted in my "What's to Come" post about putting a tub in our bathroom? Well, I had a some plumber scheduling issues. I thought more about that tub and if my family really needed it. My answer resulted in NO. My boys are all the age they can shower themselves and when they couldn't we managed and just cleaned up the water mess from the shower curtain being open. I was losing my cheese as this bathroom just disgusted me, I couldn't even handle sitting at my desk in the other room knowing that bathroom even existed in the same house as I did. 

After a lot of research on how to cover the ugly walls, online searching for a new vanity and finally settling on a plan I started to do a little research on how to remove a toilet (with rusted bolts) and a sink. Than on Sunday, February 20th, while my husband was taking a nap, I decided to remove that bathroom of all it's things. My husband woke up to this:

Yes, he was a bit (lot) shocked. 

I took advantage of being off work on President's Day. I took to two Lowe's Stores, Home Depot and  Target. I walked in with one plan for my flooring and walked out with another. Going through the first store is when I realized I had to switch flooring material and go with my plan B. I didn't take into account the threshold differences the tile I wanted would make. Thankfully I researched two different floors before leaving home and Lowe's still had what I was looking for, or at least that is what their app said. Only for an employee at both stores tell me they hadn't seen that tile in months. So by the time I made it to Home Depot I was frustrated. At one point I left the store and sat in my car for 30 minutes doing more research before I went back in and purchased the flooring I settled on.  

I resourced out one project and it was taking a light switch that did nothing and making it a switch for the light above my vanity. The person I called was my cousin Aaron and although I was only looking for tips and to know it can be done he said "I will be there Wednesday". Sure enough he was at my house, in the ice and snow, to do what he said he would. 

That following weekend I was ready to lay my floor. I played with a few different patterns before settling on one.

This was my first time laying tile and grouting and it was very satisfying. 

When I finished with the floor I put stuff over it and painted the ceiling, and top two feet of the walls and hung my new ceiling light. 

In the mean time my husband took my $10 vanity light, that I purchased in 2018 for my initial bathroom plan, and a can of spray paint to work to make my silver light black.  Once I was ready for the wood on the walls I called in Tim. I don't do fractions, measurements or saws so Tim came in with my plans and put up all the wood. 

He was finished in two nights so I was able to start patching on a Friday night. 

I started sanding on a Saturday morning and painting by late Saturday evening. I stayed up well after midnight painting, hanging the vanity light, hand scrubbing the floors, cleaning up all the mess and getting ready for the next step, installing the vanity and toilet. 

I was excited to do the big installs and finishing up the room that I was up at 8:00a and hit the floor running. The room was finished and ready for it's final touches by 11:00a. However, I didn't have my finishing touches, but Target did. A quick trip to return unused material to Home Depot and a hop over to the Target next door I was home by 3p and ready to reveal the bathroom to the world by 3:30p.  Now I could stare at this room all day. 

Here are the products I used:

Floor Patch
Floor Primer
Tile
Grout
Tile Glue
Ceiling light
Plywood
1x2
1x3 (there is no link but got from Home Depot)
caulk
wood patch
Vanity
Mirror
Toilet
Clark and Kensington, white is chalk and the dark gray is a custom color both came from our local Ace Hardware
Plant stand
Pot (on the plat stand is the 2020 version from Anthropologie but have linked their similar one)

If there are any other products you would like to know about let me know and I would be happy to share.