master bathroom: chapter one

Well the master bathroom is coming right along.  I do think we shall have a working shower any day now. Well, surely by Easter anyways!

No seriously the Hubs is making progess on the master bath shower renovations.  Can I use the word progress even if he works on the shower only about eight hours a week? :)  It's hard to find time to work on re-modeling your house when you have very little free time.  Hubs really has made tremendous progress in the short time since he first demo'd the first tile.  I stand amazed sometimes at his handy-ness.

Would you like to take a tour  of our master bath, the one we had a few weeks ago?  Come on in!  Ok stop right there.  There is only room for about 1.5 people in here at a time so you'll have to take turns. One at a time now!

So as you can see from the doorway you are looking directly into the shower.  Don't you just love the maukhaki tiles?  No, I didn't make that word up.  When you take khaki+mauve you are left with maukhaki colored tiles.  In certain light they look khaki and about 90% of the other time they look mauve.  Barf.

Apparently there was a shower door at some point because you can stil see the holes from where it was attached to the tile.  We had been making due with a shower curtain until now but the shower curtain made the bathroom feel so much smaller than it really is.  Who am I kidding?  It is a small bathroom!

Now step over the threshold a little bit and turn to your left.  Now you are looking at small wall with a window that looks out onto the backyard.  We are leaving this portion of the bathroom as is.  We love the beadboard that was already there when we bought the house so it stays of course!

Now turn around and you'll find some more beadboard, the toilette, and perhaps the smallest vanity known to man!

I really can't believe I am showing you this picture but I am for some reason.  Hubs had emptied the contents of our shower caddy and stuck a few things on our 1.0001 sq. inch of a countertop.  And look the bed isn't even made and the bedskirt is all wonky.  Oh my.  Well at least now if you ever had an pre-concieved notions that I might be the spitting image of perfect you aren't fooled anymore!

Ahem, back to the tour in progress.......We will be keeping the toilette and vanity but will be getting a spiffier {pretend that's a word} mirror.  Most likely we might steal the one we currently have in our other  bathroom at the moment.  Oh and the floor tiles.  Those stay as well.

Now fast forward a few days and look Hubs has already started tearing out those maukhaki tiles.

And he also removed the stuff that was behind the tile.  Somebody help with the name of that?!? Anyways he essentially took the shower down to the studs.

Fun stuff no?  Next he installed some new cement board {not pictured because how exciting it cement board to look at?}

 And now on to the really exciting part.  

He start putting up these babies.  White subway tiles!! Oh how I love subway tiles.

The bathroom already looks 8,000 times cleaner and brighter than it did before.  It truly is amazing what some new tile can do for the overall look of a bathroom.  {the picture below shows the tiles pre-grout}

Hubs is almost completely finished tiling the entire shower and when he is done I'll post another update.   Hopefully, we'll be heading to the home improvement store this week to pick out a shower door and a faucet/shower head.  I can't wait!