Kids bath renovation (again!)

I know if you go back about 5 years (to the day!) you'll find a similar post about renovation our kids bathroom. It was at our old house and the timing was similar.  But, now we live in a new house and again had to renovate the kids bathroom. All the bathrooms (4!) in our new house need work. It is like walking into 1990 when you step into the bathrooms. Linoleum floors, gold fixtures, gross vanities, etc. Dan already tackled the powder room on the first floor and the kids bathroom was next on the list. If you are wondering why our master bath isn't a priority there is a good reason.  The kids bathroom floor was peeling off. The prior owners used peal and stick linoleum squares, well add some water and you have a gross peeling floor. We used a rug to cover it for the past year, but the time for a new floor was now. You start with a floor and you end up with a whole new bathroom! Ha ha

The shower walls had just been re tiled when the house was put on the market to help it sell. I don't love the tile but it seemed kind of silly to rip it all down being that it was brand new and a neutral color. Dan is talented but he wasn't sure he was quite ready to tile a shower. So, we had to find a floor and vanity top that was the color we liked but also could match the existing tile. Luckily, we did. I wanted a grey tile and we found one with a mix of grey and beige. Then, I found the perfect quartz top that also mixed grey and beige. Since our washing machine had been acting up lately (it also came with the house and had been fixed by Dan about 5 times already) we upgraded to a new BIG washing machine to be put in after the floor was completed. (the laundry room is in the bathroom).

Dan worked tenaciously for about a week solid on demo-ing the bathroom, prepping the floor for tile, fixing the damaged vanity, painting the vanity, updating the light fixture, putting in new moldings where necessary, painting the walls, and putting in the tile floor (which is a multi-day/step process). After the floor was done we had a bit of a wait since the quartz needed to be installed and that is also a process, as they have to do the measurements, get them approved, order the slab, make the counter top and then finally install it. After the counter top was installed, it was the last few things that needed to be done for Dan, touch ups, towel bar, toilet paper holder, painting laundry doors and main door and hanging the hooks for the kids towels and some wall art.

It came out better than I had hoped. It is so pretty when you look in. Yes, it is nicer than our master bath times 1 million! Our master bath is small and also stuck in 1990, however we had bigger plans for that down the road which involve moving some walls around and re-arranging things, so for now that has to wait.

As for Dan, he is taking a little break now. He worked all of June and some of July and worked on the bathroom for August. I think he deserves a few months off of being a part time handy man. He has 1 week left before he returns to work to soak up some down time. The only credit I can take is for designing the bathroom and buying all the accessories to make it look cute. Anyone want to visit now so they can see it in person? Come on over!!

Great job, Dan!!