Our Bathroom Remodel

So we started this project in February of this year and pretty much finished up around the middle of April (I'm a bit late on the reveal : ).  This bathroom was the very worst part of our house (and our house was in pretty rough shape) when we bought it a few years ago.  Terrible!  I can't seem to find any of my before pictures but I can quickly describe it.  One wall was covered in blue super crooked glass mosaic tile.   When they needed to cut a tile they didn't, they just painted the space blue.  It was ridiculous!  The previous owners installed a shower insert thing, but didn't do it right so it ended up sitting 6 inches off the ground and leaked like crazy.  We never even used it.  It doesn't sound that bad, but just trust me, it was!
This is what we have now!

Isn't it dreamy?!  I have it on good authority that this is a crazy awesome shower.  Can you believe I still haven't used it yet?  The tile in here is my favorite thing about this bathroom.  The glass combined with the flat stones is stunning.  And I'll toot my own horn here...I picked it out!  We moved out a wall and the floor drain here to make the shower larger.  Our friend is a plumber so he helped us do a lot of this work.  He is the reason we did this in the first place.  We thought it was a lost cause, but he suggested bumping out the wall and expanding the shower.  I'll inflate his ego a bit, he totally saved the day!

This fabulous towel rack is an Etsy purchase that The Mom found.  The colors match everything perfectly.

I wish I could get better pictures of the vanity.  I need a wide angle lens for that though.  It is a simple one piece purchase from Lowe's.  And the toilet paper holder I bought at Junk Bonanza fits right in!  It's a vintage golf club, and I'm telling you, if it fit in my golfing Mother-in-Law's suitcase she would have stolen it!

Here's a slightly better shot of the vanity.

And I love my little Ikea shelves!  Gotta have a place to put a few vintage dodads.  I'm still working a bit on the decoration part, but so far I like it.  

So that is our new basement bathroom.  We (mostly The Husband!) did a lot of the work ourselves but also had some really great contractors.   I LOVE how it turned out.  So much so that I get a little depressed when I go into my boring master bathroom and remember that this lovely space is downstairs.  What do you guys think?!    

Linking up with the Colorado Lady and The Thrifty Groove.