Bathroom Renovation

It's coming along. Slowly. Very Slowly. So close...So close. So what started off as me not feeling like cleaning my bathroom one day and instead turned into a total bathroom renovation... it's almost, ALMOST, complete after two and half months. My days of running down the stairs each morning to take care of my first order of business (brushing my teeth) are finally coming to a close. Tile is all done, medicine cabinet installed, electrical done. I just have to a few small things to take care of, hang my shower curtain, hook up my sink, paint, trim and I am in business.

Inquiring minds wanted to know.

I know a lot of you are on the edge of your seat with my bathroom renovation, so in order to placate the small handful of you, here's some snaps. This is about three weeks in, with really only about 2 days worth of work (not counting the demo). A lot of the time is spent staring at the wall, debating if what I am about to do is right, then looking at the book, then debating if what I am about to do is good enough, then debating whether I should have done that last piece better, or if I should remove the last piece altogether, then finally if I should just quit and call a professional. Here's what I have done; all the cement board is installed and ready for tile. Up next, greenboard the rest of the areas and get the floor underlayment down.

Things I have learned:
1. I should have done this before I moved in.
2. cement board is a pain in the ass.
3. I should have only tiled the shower area instead of all 4 walls.
4. new plumbing is a bigger pain in the ass than I want to deal with.
5. It's hard doing these things with no money and no help.

Bathroom Renovation

I've been saving whatever money I can lately and have been buying some things for my upstairs bathroom in phases over the past few months. This is the last major renovation project in my house. I think with the completion of this project my house will finally, after 5 plus years start feeling like a house. I still have plenty of other major expense things to get done, like eventually get all new windows, waterproof my basement, and finish up a bunch of little random things. So, this weekend for whatever reason, and probably against my better judgment, I decided to start the deconstruction. I was thinking that I really needed to clean my house but instead dirtied it up. Here's what I've done so far. Just knocked out two walls because I still need the other two shower walls for my shower. I realize now how annoying it is to not have a sink and toilet upstairs. The demo has been going pretty well so far though. No real problems or surprises, and I've been pretty diligent about cleaning up as I go. Probably because there is no real room for the mess to accumulate in that small of a space. Looking back though, I should have done this as my first project when I moved in, but I say that about every house project I've taken on.