The Fabers: Master Bathroom - Before and After

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Master Bathroom - Before and After

Right....I was slowly going through our "finished" house and doing before and after photos. ☺

Next up, master bathroom, but formerly a closet.

What the closet looked like before we cleaned it out...

All cleaned out, and if you don't remember, we filled in the window and cut this room in half so that the bedroom we were creating could use half for a closet and the other half would be our bathroom off the master bedroom.

I know, I should have saved the wall paper, and the water heater. Actually, we still use that water heater, just from a different location, but that is the water heater that still heats all of our water. ☺

In framing process...creating a new closet and a bathroom.

And THEN we decided that to give ourselves enough room for a tub and just a little bit more room, we brought the bathroom into the bedroom about 18 (?) inches. One of Dean's better ideas. ;o)

Doing that made a huge difference!

Now we have a very nice bathroom and with little details, it makes this a great bathroom.

A medicine cabinet wasn't my first choice for a mirror, but when you don't have a lot of space everything has multi-task.

The countertop looks straight white, but it actually has light flecks of black, gray, brown, etc... in it. I'm really happy with that choice. Another thing I'm totally happy with is my toilet roll holder! ☺ Ha. Seriously though, even my 4 year old can replace the toilet paper... I also got a "quiet close" toilet seat cover, and now I go around slamming everyone else's. It's the small things.

Here's a picture showing where you can see where we extended the bathroom, we couldn't get rid of the beam, so we had to work with it, and that the walls went from 2x4" walls to 2x6". ☺
I ♥ skylights, but I especially love them in bathrooms.

So I bought curved shower rods, and Cary didn't want to install them because that meant he would have to drill into the tile. He eventually did it anyway since I threatened to do it myself if he wouldn't, and we like it. ☺

Our original plan was to use small subway tile and the day that we drove into SLC to pick it up, we stopped at Contempo Tile, because we were looking for all of our floor tile too. Anyway, I saw this tile in the showroom and it was a closeout deal and I fell in love. It originally came in 20" tiles, but I still wanted the subway tile look, so Aaron cut them all in half for me. Aaron is the one that talked me into the diamonds interspersed in there, and in hindsight, I'd probably prefer to have just kept it simple and not have the diamonds, but I do love it all anyway. One thing I didn't think about was that in the show room I didn't think about the color of my walls next to the tile...and I still like it, but that tile screams that it want's to be next to a blue or gray wall. After we got it up, I really wanted to go crazy and paint my wall navy blue or something. Ha. ☺ I know, I need a little less blue and gray in my house...
The shelves, done like that, were also Aaron's idea and I really love them, I wasn't too sure at first, but they are really nice.

We went with hooks over towel rods, and so far I haven't regretted that decision... I do occasionally think that I'd like the hooks on a 1x4" white strip, but I don't really want them sticking out even further...so we'll see.