Bathroom Renovation

I am mostly caught up on posts in real time, but now that I have had some time to work on pictures and such I wanted to go back and keep trying to catch up on other posts from this year. 

Our house is from the 80's and we have slowly been chipping away at projects as we could afford to.  One of the bigger rooms that needed a major update was our master bathroom.  We have put it off because of the cost but as plumbing started going bad we decided to get it done as soon as we could manage.  We knew this was going to be a huge undertaking and spent months trying to forge a plan.  

2 days before the project began, the giant dumpster was on its way, we had a tub and vanity in our garage and numerous other supplies ready and waiting, this happened:

We were happy and thought it was so funny but also with this being the 4th time I was going to be doing this, I knew within a week or so that I would be feeling awful.  The idea of a major remodel (that forced us to move out of our room) and me knowing I was going to need some extra help from Peter with the kids really made us question if we could handle this project.  But since we already had it so set in motion, we knew we had to press on! 

Here are some "before" pictures of this project. This project also affected our master bedroom because we were adding a solid wall to the left walk through so we could make a big master closet. 

Where the glass closet doors are would become our walk in closet, we would be removing the giant bathtub and putting in a much smaller, more practical one. 

The wall between the tub and very small shower would be completely removed so we could make a much larger shower.  My main requests were a nice walk in closet, an awesome soaking tub, and a much bigger shower. And Peter sure provided on all of those! 

We all had a blast with demolition

New walls for the walk in closet

We also made a normal doorway on the other side

Flooring

New vanity and a ton of bright lighting in a room that did not have adequate lighting prior

Finishing touches and a massive shower 

The project of course took twice as long as we expected and had those usual unexpected things come up.  We also had some higher than expected expenses with the glass for the shower and putting up new siding on the entire front of the house (it needed it) because of removing a window in the bathroom.

But the finished project was so beautiful! 

Some before and afters: I was not able to be as helpful as I would have liked with this project because I was so sick but Peter knocked it out of the park!