Project Update: Bathroom Floor

Okay, so life has been just the teensiest bit hectic over the last several weeks, and the blog totally got neglected (sorry)!  However, I did remember to take lots of pictures of things that we DID do, and the good news?  I just uploaded all of them, meaning I have something to jog my shrinking memory.  

So, without further ado, I give you a blog post to begin with.

We have a bathroom upstairs that had a hideous floor.  It was a peel and stick floor, which is exactly how we intended to fix the problem.  Unfortunately, the previous owners did this horrible black all the way around the perimeter and off-white in the middle.  There were flecks of gray and white all throughout the floor...not too pretty.  We decided to cover it with a nice, neutral, grayish-brown color peel and stick instead.

At least the previous owners laid the floor correctly, for all that it was ugly!  It made it easy to figure out how many tiles we needed as well as have a guide by which to lay them.

This project was mostly a one person job, so Kyle did all the measuring and the peeling and the sticking while I was waste management (I threw away the backing and the scraps), tool facilitator (I handed Kyle pencils, pocket knives, levels, etc.), and moral support (I told him what looked like crap and needed to be done over again).  We finished this project around the Fourth of July, just as my baby bump was starting to get big and cumbersome, so it was a nice break to be doing something low-key.

Since redoing the floors were always in the plan, we weren't very careful while painting or mudding.

The finished product makes the room look a lot bigger, in my opinion.

The hardest part was maneuvering around the toilet, shower, and odd corners.  Math isn't exactly my or Kyle's strongest suit, so we might have done more trial and error on the tiles than most people.  You might say that the easiest thing to do would have been to take the toilet out.  I'll be honest, we just didn't want to mess with any plumbing (or, in other words, we just didn't feel like it)!  Aside from laying the trim, this was the last piece of the puzzle for the bathroom.  We've since done trim throughout the upstairs, so that's done now, too.  

We also replaced the toilet seat, caulked, and bought a few accessories for the bathroom, but mostly we're going to leave it pretty plain.  Less is more, I think.  Below is a picture of the finished bathroom stall.  I used metal paint to paint the trim of the shower from gold to silver.  We also used this paint four years ago on all our doorknobs throughout the house.  Time-consuming, but so worth it!

So there you have it!  One of these days, I will actually take and post pictures of the finished upstairs.  It's completely done, besides maybe some touch-up paint!  The furniture is still a work-in-progress...some pieces are done, some aren't.  We moved things back upstairs and we love that we have so much space up here.  Still need to decorate after the furniture is done, but we've taken some time away from that to concentrate on a more important part of the house...

...the nursery!  A few more things to do in there, and I'll post pictures of that someday soon, too.  I promise! 

All in all, the upstairs remodel is done and I. Am. Glad.  It is so worth the final product, though!  We didn't use as much of our savings as we originally thought (thank goodness for savings bonds!) and learned a lot along the way, but it makes us appreciate the room that much more.  Our cats love it, too!  Their food, water, and litter box is upstairs now, so no more basement for them!  We constantly hear them running the length of the upstairs and wrestling on the floor.  It's pretty cute :)