Progress!

I'm incredibly excited that we've moved into the rebuilding phase of our bathroom reno! It was a long, busy, chockfull of activity weekend, but we have something to show for all of our work.

Our new bathroom floor!

It took 5 trips to 4 different Home Depots over the course of 2 days, but it's finished! Well, almost. These pictures are pre-grouting, which we did tonight, but we still need to give it the final buffing.

Our first trip to the first Home Depot on Saturday left us without enough tiles and we had to drive across town to another store that had enough in stock. The third trip to the third Home Depot on Sunday was to pick up some more supplies that we needed and that was the closest store they were listed as in stock at. Thanks to miscounting on my part, we didn't have enough of said supply and I had to go to the store AGAIN. I gambled and picked the closest one which fortunately had what we needed. The fifth trip to the same closest store came late in the day on Sunday when we ran out of backerboard screws just as Chris was about to finish. Fortunately, Monday didn't require a single trip to the store for more supplies!

Thankfully after all those trips to the store and all the hard work, I LOVE how it turned out! It was the first time tiling for either of us and things went surprisingly smoothly. It's not exactly easy or fun to tile, but I'm really happy with our work. I think the little tiles (which were in 12x12 sheets) were fairly forgiving to work with but it still took some precision to keep them all lined up. I was a little afraid to walk on it today for fear that I did something wrong and I'd hear tiles cracking beneath my feet. I'm happy to say that it was completely sturdy!

Now on to the walls!