Bathroom Redo

Our bathroom vanity and flooring was dated, dirty and overdue for a redo.

So a redo it got.  

We went with a recycled glass counter because I love the materials used and the uniqueness of it.  I love the strength of the counter and the price is equal or closely comparable with quartz or granite.

We ordered it through Home Depot and McDermott Top Shop came out and installed it.  I am more of a diy-er, love finding reusable products that are easy, budget friendly and typically something the hubby and I can handle, but this purchase was definitely worth it!

We purchased this sink and this faucet.  Love both.

Realizing that counter would not match with the existing job that I did on the vanity, I opted to paint the vanity a mint, (the same color we painted the basement ceiling), transforming it...

From this:

To this:

Since the paint was a satin base, I applied polyurethane over the top of it, two coats, lightly sanding in between and am loving it!

So fresh and so clean.

I kept the hardware the same color because it matches everything else.

If you didn't notice from the pictures above, we also decided to rip out our outdated, dirty flooring and slap down some tile.  One would think that would be easy....five layers of flooring, and a few hours later we managed to get almost all of the flooring out.

Obviously at some point during the life of this bathroom there was some leaking issues.

Since the distance between the current flooring and floor we have in the hallway wasn't enough to install cement board on the floor, we opted to go with this stuff:

It was kind of expensive, we had to purchase an entire roll, but comes with a lifetime warranty on leaking, and install was SO much easier then concrete board, so we opted to try it out and are impressed with it.

The hubby laid it out to size and cut it.  Per the instructions he then mixed up some mortar and adhered it between the underlayment and yellow flooring started out with.  The directions say you can start laying tile immediately, so that's what he did!

I love this tile, and slowly but surely we managed to get it done.

On a normal project, with normal time management and scheduling we would have had this floor down a lot quicker, but between the process of planning my frozen embryo transfer (here, here, here and here), a family emergency we were working through over the past couple of months, along with another bathroom project we took on, things  have been slightly delayed in the Emily and Chad household!

 But since I love before's and after's:

Before:

After:

What a difference a little paint, some tile and a new counter can do...Now onto the 1,000 other projects we have to get done while these twin boys are percolating....