Bathroom Makeover: Phase 1

Benjamin and I started renovating the spare (Jeff's) bathroom. It's a project I've been wanting to tackle for a while. With Jeff coming back from Austin at the end of the month, we decided we should get started this weekend. Woo hoo, let the fun begin! I'm such a meanie, putting Benjamin to work while he's sick. What a wonderful boyfriend. :) On Friday night, we took out the toilet. Or rather, Benjamin took it out. It didn't look so bad, but still...eww. We also painted the walls and cabinets. I'm not sure I like the paint I picked for the walls(Tropical Tide by Behr). I was trying to go for a turquoisy color, but this appears more blue on the wall. We'll see how it all looks once we put the white cabinet back up. That's the cool thing with paint, you can always change it! Painting the oak cabinets was such a pain, next time I think I'll just buy new ones. On Saturday morning, we demo'ed and prepped the floor by ripping out the linoleum and plywood and installing backerboard. On Sunday, we laid the tile. I found some really cool 1" hexagon tiles at Tile Fantastic (http://www.tilefantastic.com/). They had the best selection of specialty tiles. The tiles came on 12 inch mesh sheets making installation quite easy. We only had to cut a handful of the tiles using nippers which is much more convenient than getting a wet tile saw for the bigger tiles. We also found pre-mixed thinset at Home Depot so we didn't have to hassle with stirring up the adhesive. That was nice! Now all that's left is grout, baseboards and other minor finishing touches (new faucet, fixtures, etc). Final pictures will be posted soon.