Um so yeah I’ve fallen behind on the updates again (2 months!!) and there’s actually NO real reason other than I’ve been at this for over TWO years now and I think I’m tired! But a lot has happened in the house….we are so close to being done I can almost taste it and its driving us crazy as I think we are both just fed up with living in constant chaos!
Anyway enough of the moaning where were we…ahh yes I last left you at the guest bathroom…
The shower in here had been ripped out about 4 months ago when we were remodelling the family room as we needed to break into the walls to put in a beam. This made having guests in the house a slight logistical challenge as there were 4 adults and 2 kids using one bathroom to shower! And so this room became pretty important quite quickly! Once the walls had been sealed and the shower pan made watertight we were ready to begin the tiling phase.
This is our only full size bathroom downstairs and as its now a windowless room we decided to keep it clean and simple and chose a mostly all white color scheme. We picked white subway tiles for the walls to give it that classic finish and then a small mosaic for the floor to add in texture.
Guest bath floor mosaic tiles
The white subways went up first and already I was excited. Our tiler (who we nicknamed George Michael due to his uncanny likeness!!) was working so fast it was amazing to watch. He had the whole back wall done in no time.
Speedy Subways!
But then…… DISASTER. We’ve actually been pretty lucky in that we havent made too many boo boos until now however we/I decided (having been inspired by this picture on Pinterest) that we should run the floor tiles vertically and not horizontally.
(I know stop me RIGHT NOW)
Dark Grout & Wiggly wall lines = tiling mistake no 1.
BIG MISTAKE.
Why? Well our walls aren’t straight ( yeah old house etc..) so the tile lines weave in and out against the wall and it looks messy. To make it worse I chose to highlight the lines with a dark grout (again more Pinterest inspiration) so its even more obvious that they aren’t straight. Wahhhhhhhh
I must iterate at this time that our tiler totally suggested we run them horizontally and was completely confused by our request to do them vertically and we insisted. He did his best but in the end we messed up!
Note to self – just because it’s on Pinterest doesn’t make it ok!!!
Spot the tiling error…….
And now there’s nothing we can do about it… and we hate it. Like “I couldn’t sleep that night due to thinking about it” kind of hate it.
I’ll be totally honest – we came very close to ripping up the floor and starting all over again but our budget just doesn’t allow for that kind of extravagance right now. So after a few deep breaths and a resigned “it’s not that bad” we have decided to live with it and move on. Ya win some ya lose some.
And so David installed the toilet just before he had to head back to the UK and Jon fitted the shower pieces.
Jon “testing” out the new guest bath…
See you can sit on the toilet and almost shower at the same time..genius! Actually there’s a big old piece of glass to go in there but not yet because ya know that costs over $1k and it’s almost Christmas. I don’t imagine a giant piece of glass going over well with the kids as their gifts!
Also we are missing a vanity (which is embroiled in the kitchen drama), lighting and a mirror but hey its progress and we are proud of it!!!!
Up next….the Kitchen.
At first I thought “George Michael” was using something to put the tiles on. Is that just something hanging from the ceiling, getting in the shot?
haha its a former Ikea floor lamp that has been turned into a temp hanging light! We hadn’t installed the electrics yet