MORE STRIPES

the same time the laundry room was getting the stripes my mom and i were working on the basement bathroom as well

before all white bright and shiny

planning and painting the vertical stripes

wait a day to do the rest

invite mom over again and tape off the horizontal stripes

admire the work before painting

paint and wait

the finished product

really loving the finished effect

cheers ~n

WHITE DELIGHT

not a lot of progress so far on the bathroom ... but the shower doors are now sitting inside the shower, the walls are painted and the cute little lights are up

i am planning an ocean influenced bathroom with a picture collage of north shore waves in the prettiest gray blue colors, lots of glass including a potential glass bowled sink that floats on the wall and chrome and glass towel bars and of course the black and white tile floor ...

cheers ~n

BLACK AND WHITE

it is frustrating when you fall in love with a tile that would be absolutely perfect for your space and then you receive the quote for just the supplies and almost fall of your chair ... they want $1300 to tile a 5X7 bathroom and a 11X5 laundry room and if we choose to get them to install it we would have to pay $2000!?!?!? what the what that is waaaay too expensive for this little house ...

so this weekend we headed out to the 3 hardware store chains determined to find tile for the basement bathroom and laundry room (even though we had already been before and were a little disappointed) ... rona this weekend had 15% off your entire purchase so we started there and that was as far as we had to go ... i am happy to report that it truly was a one stop shop this time ... we settled on bright white tile for the middle and a funky black argyle diamond tile to border the rooms ... just enough to add some interesting detail and the price was a lot cheaper than the quote we had from before ... can't wait to install this sometime this month

cheers ~n

SOMETIMES 2 IS BETTER

well here is a quick peak at the bathroom to be ... over 3 and a half years of living with one bathroom we are super pumped to have a second bathroom almost ready to be drywalled and finished ... yeah for the house soon to be with 2 bathrooms

the entrance to the bathroom ...

where the sink and mirror will be

(the laundry room on the opposite side)

toilet and corner shower ...

every square inch being used

nice level base for the shower ...

the difference from the wall to the end of the shower had a 1" rise in the floor

definitely not cool for water drainage

now nice and level :)

the shower fixtures finally found after driving around all day

totally in love with all the squareness happening here

cheers ~n