Bathroom Plan

Hey!  I promised I would give you the low down on the bathroom, and I am happy to say it is actually happening!  Unlike the rest of the house {which I still plan to post about at some point in time!}, I am going to try to blog about this one as it comes.  We will see how much I am home during the process, how much it goes as planned, and what the general timeline turns out to be to help determine.  But I think it is possible!

As a refresher, here are some of our "current" bathroom plans {I have decorated the guest bath slightly and we have junked up the master, but nothing else has changed}

Guest Bathroom - Soon to be DEMOLISHED!

Master Bathroom - Can't wait for the end!

The PLAN

You guys -- this part of the remodel is going to be tough.  After redoing the rest of the house, we want to be D-O-N-E done.  So in this effort, and the effort of saving money, we have a few "musts":

1. Keep bathtub and tile in the bath. {The tub is in great shape and we have a work-around for the tile that is also not-to-bad-but-not-gonna-work-for-high-maintenance-Kelcie}
2. Toilets have to be fixed to work for Kelcie {a.k.a. they are too tall, scratched and always look dirty, are WALL MOUNTED, and just generally really annoy me}.  Some of this is logistics that I will just have to explain on another day!
3. Vanities must go - they go up to my short-statured hips.  So that's definitely a problem. 
4. Walls have to be fixed from the peeling paint due to too-much-humidity, not-enough-ventaliation 

Peeling paint due to humidity, while this looks like traditional water damage in the picture, there have been no leaks. 

5. Flooring {obviously}

6. Lighting {currently terrible}

Here are our "wants":

1. Pedestal toilets {who, other than us, has to add this to a want list?!}
2. Storage, especially in master
3. Remove soffit and fluorescent lighting over the vanities. 

Mirror is awesome {to be kept for another project} - lighting, not so much

4. Change tile color

It is really speckled in person!

So basically, do everything except for the tub.  Yay!

Timeline

Here it is {today, at this moment - maybe not tomorrow}:

Week 1: 

• Start tearing out soffit/lighting
• Start tearing out tile behind toilet only very carefully so we can reuse the border pieces around the edge of the tub we are replacing {Weekend}
• Complete tile in tub area
  

  

  Keep everything to the left, get rid of everything to the right and reuse the edge pieces

Week 2: 

• Tear out sinks and vanities {Weekend}
• Scrape walls {or other solution as suggested by our "Sheet Rock Guy" who does amazing work... and one of the only things we actually contract out!}
• Tear down "half-wall" in guest bathroom

Master Bath: Not exact but close enough!

Week 3:

• Paint tile around tub {yes: PAINT! Can't wait to see how this works!} {1 evening to paint, 2 days drying, per tub}
• Lay Flooring {weekend}

Guest Bath: Not entirely exact {like that gigantic toilet} but you get the gist!

Week 4:

• Remove toilets, reroute plumbing to floor, put in new toilets {1 day-ish, the other piece we contract out}
• Have walls textured by our Sheet Rock Guy {several days - hello brother, may we borrow your shower?}
• Paint ceilings {weekend}

Week 5:

• Paint walls
• Put in vanities, sinks, cabinets, etc. {3-ish hours per vanity/sink}
• Make pretty

The Good News

I don't have to do dishes in the bathroom during this leg of the remodel. 

The End. 

Not really, next I will explain how IKEA fits into this {spoiler alert: the options are limited on what it could possibly be} and give you an update on our vision for the bathrooms with colors, feel, etc.  

Can't you just see it?!

So I mentioned that there were two main areas that we actually bought the house for. But first, we want to know if you can envision it.

The Living Room

Goose had to make a cameo appearance.  {He was actually waiting for Lizzie to pop around that corner - they loved playing chase when the house was empty!}

The house "as is"

So... we bought a house.  

Here is a picture from Day 1:

As you can tell, Andrew was really excited.  It was in the middle of April, it was actually cold, and those shrubs were beyond dead.  It was a great day.

Let's start at the VERY beginning

{because it's a very good place to start...}

At one point in our lives, not that long ago, we decided it was a fantastic idea to buy a house while being 6 weeks away from our wedding date.  We proceeded to purchase said house and then completely tear it apart - while also DIY-ing practically our entire wedding.  

We wanted a way to document this process and make it available to answer quite a few questions that everyone else had for us along the way.   We considered making an album and holding everyone hostage to come see it (this is still a HIGH possibility) and then we considered doing an online album share of some kind.  However, at the time of this post, we are not on social media (once again, OH the horror!).  But it has been a longtime dream of ours mine to start a blog.  Not for the "I think people care what I have to say" sort of thing, but for the "I would maybe like to know what I was thinking back then" sort of way.  

So here's to you - and to keeping you in OUR loop!