It is done!

 

After months of (on and off) working on our downstairs bathroom, we have finally finished it!!! Shaun tiled the countertop with natural stone tiles, which creates such a lovely vanity. We added some hardware to the cabinets (that we stained earlier) and it almost doesn't look like the standard vanity that comes in almost every bathroom  :)

 

 

So here is our final product!

Budget Bathroom Remodel Phase 2 - Painting and Staining!

I know we went a little backwards by tiling first and then painting, but my Uncle and Aunt came into town to help us tile, so we tiled first. Then painted the room Burnished Metal by Behr with a crisp white trim.

I have to say the bathroom looks completely different already. The tile floor looks amazing, and then adding a dark grey paint just transformed the room.



This is our laundry room, you'll have to ignore the really
old washing machine and lack of dryer

 We didn't want to spend he money on a new vanity, so we decided to stain it. I tried staining once before this and will never do it again, it was ugly and ended in tears. So Shaun graciously stepped up to the task and stained our vanity a dark walnut color.

 

I can't wait to put it all together!

Budget bathroom remodel- Phase 1: TILE

 

Well this is my bathroom before . . . I'm ashamed to admit that we had carpet in our bathroom ever since we bought our house TWO years ago. Keeping the carpet clean around the toilet was not easy, so when my awesome Aunt and Uncle volunteered to come visit for the weekend and help us tile our bathroom, we jumped at the opportunity!

Our first step was to remove the carpet and linoleum . . . luckily Shaun did all this while I was a work ;) My Aunt and Uncle arrived friday evening and got straight to work that night laying down the backer board.

All day saturday was spent laying tiles, it already looks 10 times better!

 

Sunday was grout day, luckily it only took a couple of hours because my Aunt and Uncle had a five hour drive back home that day.

 

And then, we cleaned the grout and have a tiled floor!!!

 

Our floor looks so nice, that now we are in the process of replacing the sink and light fixtures and painting to make the rest of the bathroom look as good :) I'll post pictures as we go