Master Bathroom Remodel with Double Shower

Master Bathroom Remodel with Double Shower

Submitted By The Cul-de-Sac

After:

One of the biggest projects we tackled in this house was our master bath.  When we moved in, the master bathroom still boasted its 1984 decor: shiny peach floor tiles, three competing patterns of mauve/gray/peach/green/maroon wallpaper, popcorn ceilings, fluorescent lighting, an art-deco-style frosted glass window, two-toned faucets, cultured marble countertops, gray and teal painted cabinets, and a cave-like shower stall.  Aside from the bathroom's overall spaciousness, it was a disaster, and these "before" pictures don't do the horrors justice:

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New and Improved Master Bathroom

New and Improved Master Bathroom

submitted by TwentyThreeOhOne

Our bathroom is teeny tiny. Like 5'x7'. No joke.  There's nothing "master-ish" about it all. But, we've worked with what we have and actually really love how the space has turned out. 

Before:

And the AFTER:

Such a big (and better) difference, in my opinion!

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Neutral Master Bathroom Remodel

 Neutral Master Bathroom Remodel

contributed by The Ivy Cottage

I am beyond excited to finally reveal our renovated master bathroom!  It has been a long time coming.

When we purchased the house three years ago, the bathroom was ugly and we were unable to use the shower due to some extreme leakage.  Fast forward two years and one kid with another on the way and it was time for Momma to have her own space.

I wanted a space that was relaxing, fairly neutral, and had a ecletic modern country look.  Texture was also important and we needed to keep the renovation in check with our area . . . don't over renovate for your neighborhood!

We started the tile job on the shower in April last year and just now put the finishing touches . . . babies and finances can put things on the back burner.

Let's not wait a moment longer!!!

Here are some before images.

Shower:  Used to have cultured marble slabs that matched the counter tops and the typical frosted shower door with lovely gold accents.



This is the color that the cabinets were originally.

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Farmhouse Bathroom 180 Degree Renovation

Farmhouse Bathroom Renovation

contributed by HollerDesign

This much needed renovation transformed a dark, outdated bathroom into a space more appropriate to this cute farmhouse. The design combines humble, traditional elements (a cast iron tub, white subway tile, wide plank flooring) with cleaner, more modern features (a wall mounted toilet, recessed lighting, and a vanity with clean overlay drawers.) 

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Double Bathroom Sinks And Tile For Multiple Kids

Double Bathroom Sinks And Tile 

For Multiple Kids 

contributed by The Boys & Ruby

When we bought our new house 3 years ago, it was a beautiful Cape Cod style house and only needed updating.  The carpet was burgundy and there was burgundy paint throughout along with all types of wallpaper and brass accents everywhere.  We re-did this bathroom while I was pregnant with Ruby (before I was layed off!). It only had 1 sink and a door that separated the bath area from the sink area.  This would have been a nightmare getting 4 kids through here in the mornings, so we decided to do a super kid friendly remodel, durable clean and more open.  We tiled 3/4 of the way up the walls and I think we put 3 sub floor sealers for water in case they ever flooded it!  I think it turned out really great.  Sorry  about the quality of the photos, the before shot was how it looked before we moved in when the old owners were still here.

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Installing Hexagon Tile for Beginners

I'm excited to be guest posting again at Remodelaholic! Thanks to Cassity for having me! I'm Kim, half of NewlyWoodwards. At our online home, I gab about all our daily adventures - renovating, decorating, gardening and just generally DIYing. We're currently in the midst of renovating a (soon-to-be) great home from the late 19th century - our third remodel. I guess you could call us gluttons for punishment.

My husband recommended that I call this post Hexagon tile for dummies. In this situation, we would be the dummies (in case it wasn't clear). But you aren't a dummy... so let's just say this is for beginners.

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Remodeled Master Bathroom With Tile and Glass Shower

Remodeled Master Bathroom With 

Tile and Glass Shower

contributed by Mama Schell Says...

Part I

About a month ago, I noticed a wet spot on the wall in our master bathroom. It was about 3 inches in diameter right where the glass shower door meets the wall. My husband and I were a little worried about mold, so we knew that we needed to do something about it...and soon!

My hubby had planned a week of vacation for himself this week, so last week he decided that he would tackle this project while he was off. The first conversation that we had about it was just talking about repairing the drywall and resealing the door to prevent further leaks. The next day we talked a little more and decided that maybe we would instead take apart the shower and tile the shower like we had always wanted to...

But instead this is what happened...




Yep...everything except the tub came out and we, or I should say my hubby is, changing it all! New shower, new floors, new pedestal sinks, new tub surround, new mirrors and light fixtures. We are going with the whole shebang!

So far my hubby has stripped the shower down to the studs, replaced the drywall in the shower and tub surround with concrete board, taped and mudded the new board, and he has built a shower pan from scratch. Tomorrow has the first of the tiling on the schedule...and if everything goes well he should be done by the end of the weekend!

I will post updates as we progress!

Part II

So, I guess that my timeline was a little bit off...it's Friday night and my hubby is only just finishing up on tiling the shower, so I my estimate of being done by the end of the weekend is probably wrong. I would now say that maybe we will be done by Memorial Day(?), but that might just be a little too tight also...we will have to see. ;-) 

On the other hand, what is done looks absolutely wonderful! My hubby, might be methodical at his tile work, but I will have to say that everything is absolute perfect. If anything, my hubby puts his all into whatever task is at hand, and he makes sure that it is done correctly. He doesn't like to have to come back and fix mistakes, so he makes sure that it is done right the first time. I have started to notice this tendency in my son now also...when he plays with his cars they all have to line up just right, when he helps me to put away his clothes they all have to be in the correct place and when he is doing an art project everything is straight and even. That is definitely something that he gets from his daddy...I am the exact opposite. I am more creative, emotional and a little more scattered in my thoughts and how I approach life. I think that is why my husband and I work so well...we balance each other out! 

Here are a couple of photos of the progress so far...please cross your fingers that we can finish it up quickly!



And here is my favorite part so far...the shower floor. I just LOVE this tile!

Part III
It has been a long month since we started on our master bath remodel, but the wait was definitely worth it! It turned out absolutely beautiful.

My husband worked so hard on it (working every day that he had off and before or after his shifts at work) and did all of the work himself. (Except for installing the glass on the shower.) There were a few little hiccups along the way--like the 5 gallon bucket sized hole that the original builder left under the shower pan--but he did such a great job. We estimate that by doing all the work ourselves and using the supply discount offered at my work that we saved roughly $10,000!

Here are some before and after photos of the remodel:

The old vanity, double sinks and plain large mirror.

The new tiled floor & wall, separate mirrors & lights and new pedestal sinks. 

The old shower, complete with frosted glass and a cultured marble surround.

The beautiful new seamless glass enclosed, tile shower.

I am just so happy with the results. I told hubby that I think it looks like something out of a magazine! While it was hard work, it is nice to know that we saved a lot of money doing it ourselves and I think that we will appreciate it more knowing that WE did it all by ourselves!

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Master Bathroom Redo With Tile Shower and Tub Surround

Master Bathroom Redo 

With Tile Shower and Tub Surround

contributed by Note Song

Hello, Dear Ones! I have an exciting post to share with you today. Well, it's exciting for me anyway. We've just remodeled our master bathroom! Whoopee!! Now I'm going to warn you - you're going to see some pretty scary nasty looking pictures. Turn away now if you're squeamish!

Our home is olden - 1970s olden - disco, mirrors, avocado green and harvest gold - keep those things in mind. Yep, I painted the bathroom red. Actually I painted over some nasty wallpaper which I couldn't get off the wall then I added a border! Don't hate me! :)

Tadah!! No more red walls and floral border and no more wall to wall mirrors. Now this was just finished last week so I have got some decorating to do but I couldn't wait to show you! Are you excited for me?

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Kitchen Remodel With Breakfast Bar

Kitchen Remodel With Breakfast Bar

contributed by View Along The Way

I hope you're sitting in a comfortable chair.

Because if you actually read this post, instead of just scrolling through and looking at the pictures - YES, I know you do that. Cheater. - you might be here a while. Bear with me! This was the hardest, most difficult room we renovated, of course! So it gets the longest blog post in history.

This is what the kitchen looked like when we bought the place. The cabinets don't look so bad here, but the laminate was peeling off the MDF and they were literally falling off the wall.

Meanwhile, the floral border was offending me, most of the appliances were missing, and the fluorescent fixture wasn't flattering anyone's complexion.


Check out how the weight of the upper cabinets is pulling the sheetrock off the studs. It felt like at any moment the cabinets could come tumbling down in a massive pile of rot, MDF and previous-homeowner germs.



Starting to take off the floral border, and most of the cabinets removed. We lived like this for MONTHS.

* * *

Here's where I pause and tell you about my ridiculously American emotional trauma. I love looking at home design mags and blogs, and before we bought this house, had been literally dreaming about my dream kitchen.

It would have gleaming white cabinets, dark hardwoods, carrera marble countertops and white subway tile backsplash.

We started the process of renovating the kitchen by buying our gleaming white cabinets. Aside from our house, this was the most expensive purchase the two of us had ever made, cars included.

I was so excited to get my gleaming white cabinets in -- but when they finally arrived about six weeks after we bought them, we found the color we'd chosen was anything but a bright, pretty white. More like mud.

I was devastated. I literally lost sleep. (See how American this is? That the worst problem I had in my life was that my new cabinets weren't going to get me to the dream kitchen I saw in my head? So spoiled!)

I called the cabinet store and begged them to replace the doors. I got bids on how much it would cost to get them completely repainted. I thought about repainting the entire house to make the mud color look more white. I'm not kidding.

Finally, I settled. I realized that the cabinets had to stay as they were. And that this color wouldn't work with my carrera marble countertops, and they wouldn't work with my white subway tile backsplash.

It was back to square one.

* * *

Here, Andy and my dad had installed one row of cabinets (See how they're not white? It still hurts my heart a little.) and we started putting in the new appliances.

Appliances were courtesy of our local Home Depot clearance store and a scratch-and-dent place. None of the appliances showed scratches and dents when we bought them, but a couple of them had to weather our construction site long enough to earn a few scars.


(We lived like that for months too.)

Andy had torn down the old half-wall and installed a new one that would be able to support our new countertops. He did this while my dad was out of town for a few months, which means he actually googled his way to learning how to do this, with some help from my dad over the phone.

Here, with all cabinets installed and the floors finally in!


Pause while I spend a couple more months agonizing over what to do for the countertops. My parents, my brother, Andy and I signed the half-wall so our legacies will live on for all eternity. Or until someone takes off the countertop and erases it.

My dad's signature says "I sweated in this place," and that's an understatement.


Okay, for real. It was time to make a decision on countertops. My goal was to come up with something new that would make the cabinets look a little less brown. At this point, I was so terrified of making another expensive mistake that I went with the safe option: a quartz countertop in a brown color that has little sparkly pieces mixed in.

Quartz looks and feels like granite, but it's a little more scratch-and-heat-resistant, and we had some concerns about the potential for radiation in granite. So far we're really happy with how it's holding up. It actually hides messes a little TOO well!

Here's a close-up shot of the countertops, while we tried to settle on a backsplash. Again, my entire goal was to make the kitchen cabinet color look like it wasn't an expensive mistake - that became the driving inspiration for this entire room!

You can't really see it here, but I loved how the slate pulled out the blue wall color, the cabinet color and the countertop color all at once.


Finally - a finished kitchen! Walls are painted blue, new recessed lighting and hanging pendants installed, crown molding added to the cabinets, and new barstools::



Oil-rubbed bronze faucet and hardware, and our slate backsplash:


A close-up of our slate backsplash. This was our first time tiling a vertical wall. Or designing a backsplash, or really... doing any of this.


My talented husband installed a light behind this glass-door cabinet where we house our glasses.


I can't even tell you how revolutionary it is to have an actual finished kitchen!

Every time I turn on the stove, run a load of dishes in the dishwasher or wash a pot, I am grateful for the new appliances, or the fancy features on the faucet. I'm not over the newness and convenience of it at all, and plan to never take it for granted.

Thanks to my parents for their hard work helping us in this room, and my poor, poor husband, who had to do the work and put up with my whining about the cabinets! (Emily, you put up with your share of whining too!)

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Faux Painted Tile Backsplash

Faux Painted Tile Backsplash

contributed by Sawdust And Embryos

I know, I know... it's Monday. But be of good cheer! We've got a backsplash to share! And we're really excited about this one!

Sarah's been wanting a backsplash in her kitchen for quite some time, but with the business of life and having other projects taking priority, the backsplash has been sitting dormant and on the back burner. Or, I guess I should say: 'on the wall behind the back burner.'

Sarah has a sage-green-thing going on in the attached dining area, and we collectively decided on a color palate for the backsplash to include smokey grays and sage green! We love it when we can change things up with color instead of the typical beigy browns! The gray/sage combo has just the right amount of class and color without being obnoxiously funky. We love it!

The camera didn't pick up the sage very well.  Sad face  :(

You can see the sage better in this photo.

Dear Green,
Thank you for existing. Your such the perfect combination of blue and yellow, and you come in so many different shades... from celery to olive, mint to kelly, sage to hunter... (speaking of hunter green, do not EVER pair it with peach or light pink). Thanks again green, you rock my world.
Love, Bethany

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New Tile Flooring in Dining Room

New Tile Flooring in Dining Room

party highlight by I'm Topsy Turvy

This was actually from a few years ago, but since I hadn’t shared it yet, and it’s still one of my all time favorite projects, I figured why not today! Especially since I’m getting ready to do some more tiling in the next few weeks (backsplash and fireplace). This was actually just over 6 years ago! I only had 2 kids, but I got pregnant the same month as this project! What does that say about this remodeling job??? JK! Anyway the month before we moved to Japan our upstairs toilet take cracked and flooded the upstairs while we were on a last min vacation! When we got back from vacation and found it I had just three weeks to put the house back together before we moved out and our renter moved it!

The contracter we tried to work with never showed up so I learned how to drywall, texture and tile myself! The insurance money paid for it all, including replacing the carpet in almost the entire house (gotta love open floor plans). Since we knew our renter would most likely destroy our carpet anyway we decided to put off re-carpeting until we moved back from Japan. So forward another year and we moved back in! Our renter HAD in fact ruined the carpet so we were glad we had put it off. But before we replaced all the carpet I decided rather than re-carpet the dining room I’d tile it and the kitchen instead!

I mean WHO puts carpet in a dining room! UGH! I have never understood that, the only thing worse is carpet in a bathroom! Maybe when I’m old and don’t have kids around I’ll get it, but for now it’s just a stained, smelly, crumby mess waiting to happen! (oh and all these pictures were taken with my 35 mm camera and I got the digital CD from Costco- so the quality of the pic’s is terrible! One of these years I’m going to get all my negatives digitalized nicely so until then forgive the Costco CD fuzziness!)

So I ripped up the carpet (dining room) and linoleum (kitchen) and got to work! Once we got the carpet ripped up there were some issues with the cement subfloor. Cracks and uneveness are a big problem when tiling. So I filled in the lower corner of the room with cement and covered over the large cracks with this cool “tape” type of fix. It’s all very technical I assure you!

The linoleum was much harder to get up, but kind of fun too! You take a box cutter and make cuts all over the floor. Pour boiling water over the floor and let it seep into the cuts. Then you use this EXTREMELY sharp tool, like a short shovel, but SHARP, and scrap the linoleum off. It’s a little dangerous and very fun! It’s a good way to out some aggression!

One of the things to consider when your doing flooring in a kitchen is your appliances. You don’t want to leave them where they are because if you do you’ll build the flooring right up to them getting them stuck where they are! SO you’ll want to pull them all out and make sure you put the flooring underneath so you can still slide them in and out for fixing or replacing down the line! Of course this does lift up the appliances so make sure you have room for the dishwasher to get lifted up and still fit into the space. You don’t want to get done and not be able to fit it in! For me it was TIGHT but worked!

Now I wanted my floor to have a bit of a pattern. I wanted the dining room to have a rug like look. So I decided to do the center with the tiles square on, then a 4 inch border and then outside of that design the same tile as the center but at a diagonal and continuing onto the kitchen sticking with the diagonal pattern! I couldn’t find any 4 inch tall pattern than I liked, either the pattern or the colors. SO I bought full tiles in the colors I liked and decided to create my own pattern! Usually I’d do the center, then the border and finally the diagonal tiles, but the colored tiles I ordered didn’t come in time so I just measured and left the space!

Luckily it worked out okay! Once the colored tiles arrived I finalized my pattern and started cutting and then laying them down! I figured I had to include a picture of myself (6 years younger). THIS picture is the perfect example for why I don’t have long hair. It just doesn’t fit me at all!

Once I finished laying down all the tile I grouted, cleaned up and sealed the grout! Here is a close up of the border I designed! What do you think? To this day I still love it!

Here is the dining room finished:

Here is the doorway between the dining room and kitchen:

and here is the kitchen:

And finally here it is with the trim put back on, the curtains hanging the table in and flowers (staging for when we sold it!)! On of my all time favorite projects! Of course with the current remodeling projects I’m gaining a lot of favorite projects!

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