Master Bathroom Demo

When we made two bedrooms into our master bedroom we gained some extra space that we could use towards the master bathroom: the kitchen pantry and hall linen closet.

I was hesitant to take on a bathroom renovation and the current bathroom really was in okay shape. But my husband pointed out that if we were going to do it now would be the time.

So when we did the bedroom we left the space open for extending the bathroom. Our main was goal was to be able to have a double sink. We finished our bedroom renovation in October 2011 but waited to start the bathroom renovation until May 2012. (Warning- lots of cell phone pictures)

Three different floors in the bathroom

Lucky for us my cousin is a plumber and he was super awesome to help us. We wanted to move the toilet closer to the window so we then would have room to put in a double sink. He helped my husband take up the tile and then he jack hammered the concrete to run the pipe for the toilet to the new spot. This is definitely not something that we could have DIY-ed.

After the spot for the new toilet was ready and we had covered the old hole with concrete, my cousin told us to drywall, paint, and tile and then he would help us put in the toilet and vanity. This took us a few months...So from May to August we were running upstairs to use the bathroom.There was a lot of drywall to patch and dry-walling is the WORST. At least for us. 

One place Pascal had to drywall was the ceiling. We had to patch it after he opened it up to work on the bathroom vent. The bathroom had a vent already but it was just venting into the ceiling...So he ran a flex exhaust vent pipe through the ceiling to vent through the soffit outside the bathroom window.

After Pascal dry-walled we painted the bathroom. We picked Water Mark by Behr in a satin finish. We wanted an aqua color and we picked that one after holding it up next to the bedroom color. We wanted them to compliment each other since the bathroom opens up to the bedroom (of course I now want to repaint the bedroom but that's another story...)

The next step was tiling. This was the first time Pascal laid tile but he had done the backsplash as practice. We bought our tiling supplies at Home Depot again and bought gray porcelain tile for $1 a square foot for a total cost of $50. The tile was actually originally $1.20 but was discontinued so we bought everything they had left and got the discount.

Rookie DIY-er mistake...Cut your tile outside! It will be some extra work walking back and forth after measuring but worth it. We had tile dust EVERYWHERE. 

But it looked oh so nice when it was done. Since this was the first time floor tiling there are some crooked grout lines but I think the husband did a great job!

Once the tiling was done my cousin put in the toilet and helped Pascal install the new vanity. We also changed out the bathtub/shower hardware and added a shower door. My cousin got the toilet and hardware for us from Ferguson. It was a bit more than Home Depot/Lowe's but he had a discount and it is good quality. 

The main part of this job that we did ourselves was the drywall, paint, and tile. We could have managed changing out the toilet and hardware on our own but not running new plumbing so we are so thankful to have had family help for that!