Just Do Your Business and Go

If I'm in the bathroom at work, or clearly on my way into the bathroom -just save your conversation for later.  I don't like talking in bathrooms.  I just don't.  I don't want to talk about the day, or what I'm doing this weekend.  It's just weird.  If the only time we are going to see each other is in the bathroom, we probably don't care that much about what the other has to say anyway.  Right? 

Maybe I'm just weird.  But if someone else enters the bathroom while I'm in there, I do everything possible to either make it completely out of the room before they exit the stall or make a judgment call based on several factors if it's just better to wait this one out.  Anyone?  Anyone?

Recently I had such an encounter.  I was trying to get myself out of the bathroom as quickly as possible, well the girl who came in finished WAY faster than she should have so as I literally sprinted to the door she was walking to the sink.  As I flew out, she yells, "oh hi Meggan." 

AWK-WARD!

The worst part is that she saw me SEVERAL days later and said that I must be a really busy person, I sure was rushing out the door that day in the bathroom. 

Double awkward.

All I'm saying is that I'm there for one purpose, and one purpose only.  Let me give you a hint, it's not to chat. So back up off me.

(I would like to note that going in a restroom with a group of friends is different for some reason, so friends who I might see out there...it's okay, you can talk...just not while anyone is actually IN the stall. Okay?)

Starting the Bathroom Remodel

So remember how I said we weren't getting a new floor in the bathroom?  Well I was pulling your leg.  Turns out we are.  I KNEW it would happen.  Once we told the contractor no, he'd come back with some "deal" and we'd end up doing it.  It happened. We had already looked at Lowes and Home Depot for something, but couldn't find anything quite right.  So when Remy called me at 4:15 asking if we wanted to go ahead with the floor, that meant we had to run around to a bunch of specialty stores that only stay open until 5pm to find the perfect tile.  LAME!

It worked.  There's this place called Chris & Dick's (that luckily stays open til 6) where Remy got the kitchen counter from that we stopped by and found exactly what we wanted.  Unfortunately they have to ship the tile out so it won't be here til Friday at the soonest.  Which part of the point of doing the floor now was so the contractor could just rip the old crap out and put it in this week.  Oh well, what can you do?

Yesterday when I got home the new tub was in, part of the floor ripped out (since we couldn't get the tile right away they stopped taking it out), and a decent portion of the tile was done.  I'm not going to lie I thought there would be more tile up, but I guess the plubming had taken them a bit longer than expected.  Which is fine, I mean hello the timeline was to be done (without the floor) by Thursday so I think we're fine!

The only issue I have is that we picked a tile that of course isn't natural stone so the "variation" from tile to tile is artificial.  So really there are only like 4 different tiles and the "image" only varies slightly.  Sometimes one spot is farther to the left or up or whatever, but essentially there's only a few patterns. 

Which I didn't think about. 
Which wouldn't be a problem except that they're installing the tile all the same direction (apparently there's an arrow on the back of the tile indicating where the top is)
Which means that same swirly thing just keeps repeating itself in virtually the same place over and over again.
Which bugs me.
Which made me call Remy right now and ask if they can rotate the tiles.
Which with my luck they've already finished.

We picked out a natural stone trim thing which will tie the floor and the shower together SO well...it's going to look awesome!  So here's a little visual treat for you all...my own drawing of the tile. Now don't forget the tiles aren't a solid color, they're sort of lightly marbled with a medium brown color and then the floor pretty much matches the darkest brown in the trim pieces.

 We went with a 12" tile for the main part, and then between the two trim pieces we're doing a 6" tile of the same tile.  We had originally decided to just have one row of the trim, and then as we kept looking at our sample it just didn't feel like enough.  Remy was the one who came up with this brilliant idea.  Mind you the trim tiles cost more than the rest of the shower tile combined....but hey.  (Update: Remy called the contractor and it's a no go on the switching tile around...something about the cut and grout lines being all crooked).

Below is the shower head and stuff we picked out.  So the only thing left is to switch out the sink faucet and all the finishes will match!

Yay for new bathrooms!

Out With the Old...and Ugly

So we're finally getting a new bathroom!  Well, most of a new bathroom anyway.  Our disgusting bathtub and shower are being ripped out as we speak!  {insert happy dance here}

When it's all finished you can see the before and after.  Basically the previous owners did a "do it yourself" rebath job that was AWFUL!  There are blobs and blobs of caulk that is now stained yellow and brown.  It's seriously sick.  I've absolutely hated showering in there, but unfortunately it was my only option since we only have one bathroom.  But this will all now be history.  We've picked out some really nice tile and shower head, and I can't wait to see it all together!

While we're on the topic of tile...does anyone out there know how to put in a tile floor?  We really want to replace the floor, but at the last second we decided we didn't want to pay like $400 plus materials for the guy to rip out the existing tile and put in thew one.  I read so many DIY blogs that it was killing me to pay that much when I see millions of people do it themselves.  And the room isn't that big.

Check back this week for the pretty new pics!