We finally began the rehab of our master bathroom today and I am so excited!
Cosmetically, the bathroom wasn't really our style (way too much pink!), but when we bought the house in December, we didn't have any plans to change it.
Sure, we thought it was weird that the shower door swung inward, but we didn't think too much of it. Until we moved in, actually used the shower, and discovered that the whole enclosure was installed backwards. So EVERY time we shower, the water just runs down the inside of the door and straight onto the bathroom floor. What?!?! Hence the mop that has lived in our bathroom since February because we have to mop the floor after every shower. Such a pain!
It is possible that someone would have been able to just flip the enclosure around the proper way, but it was just as likely that it wouldn't go back together. So, it looked like we would have to completely redo the shower, which meant that we would also have to redo the tiles around the attached tub.
These photos don't really do justice to the incredibly pink tiles on the floor, but trust me when I say that it was difficult to find shower tiles that didn't completely clash. And it doesn't help that neither Ian nor I has a great sense of color matching. After staring at tiles in a warehouse for what seemed like forever, comparing them to our pink floor tile and getting more and more confused, we ended up at The Gallery at IFC where a designer looked at our existing tile, laughed off our suggestions of what we thought would look good, and quickly came up with several great suggestions.
We chose three tile colors from American Olean for the shower walls and tub enclosure and one color for the mosaic shower floor.
Here are the photos of the bathroom after today's demolition:
They still have to take out the shower bottom tomorrow and then the new construction can begin! So excited!
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