Progress

Our time line of events looks like this:

March 17th: was told that there was mold and mildew and moisture under master shower

March 19th: Plumber came out

March 27th: Insurance placed us with a contractor

March 29th: Apex demo'd the shower floor and cleaned mold and mildew. also contractor came out to submit estimate to the insurance company

April 3rd: insurance company approved the estimate but contractor wasn't thrilled with total

LOTS OF WAITING!

May 1st: while we waited i decided to purchase the new mirror for the space

Mirror from Wayfair

April 30: contractor came out with tile guy and the took more measurements and looked at a few more things to resubmit a new estimate

May 3rd: new estimate was sent to insurance

May 6th: insurance accepted and we got a call that we needed to go to the tile shop to make decisions. 

 This was our inspiration for the bathroom. Now, we understand that there is not way to get our bathroom to look like this because like 4 of our bathrooms could probably fit in this space. but, out of all of the colors schemes and bathrooms that we looked at, this was the one that we both liked. 

Our Victorian Italianate

The floor in the above shower room is real wood and the tile on the walls is a real marble. We found out that we would have to modify some choices since real marble is way more than we had to spend and we were told was probably not something we would want to go with even if it was less cost.  I had been searching for things that we liked. the tile i had in mind ended up being real marble, so i knew that i had to put that out of my mind.

we thought we had decided on a wood looking tile for the floor and then my hubby thought he wanted something with more red in it. the wood tile he originally found was way more red that i wanted and we ended up agreeing on the one below. it is actually the one that i had originally saved on my Pinterest board and screen shot on my phone to remember. 

So the wood tile will be on the bathroom floor, the marble looking porcelain tile will be on the shower walls in 12x24 and the shower floors will be the same porcelain tile in 2x2s matte with a gray grout.

writing this out seems easy but let me assure you that it was not. the tile guy was showing us what he would pair with the marble looking tile and it just didn't feel right to me. sure it looked good and i was sure that it would look good in a bathroom but it was not what i had envisioned in my bathroom for the last 24+ days.

In fact we ended up having to leave the tile store and let them know that we would call back the next day after we had a chance to talk about it and think more on it.

May 7th: we called and let them know that the above picture and the 2x2 floor tiles were what we wanted to go with. We have a bench going back in but it is smaller than the one that we currently have ( you can see it in the photo below) we also will have a build in nook to hold soap and shampoo.

Also the mirror came in today and it is heavy and beautiful. I can't wait for it to be hung in the space.

 May 8th: This was a last look at the shower floor, covered with plastic because it is opened to the crawl space.

May 9th: the contractors came to fix the joists (photos to come)

What i have left to do:

*decide on paint color (we are leaning towards Benjamin Moore Stonington Gray (that is the color of the cabinets, i our inspiration photo))

get an electrician to add a vent/light in the shower

buy:

*new light fixture

*shower head

*buy vent/light

I'm sure there is more to do but right not this is all i have.

Bathroom Reno

Over spring break, my hubby and son were on a missions trip, my sons first missions trip, and my daughter and i woke up on Sunday morning March 17th to a very cold house. We called the AC guy and he came out to let us know that i would be something that he could fix but that he also saw some mold under the house where a bathroom may be. he was pointing right to our master bathroom. 

i showed him the master bathroom and he said that where the shower was, was the location that he noticed mold and moisture. 

I wanted to get a bunch of before picture so that we could remember what the bathroom looked like before the haul of replacing everything, which after getting water mitigators out and a contractor out is what is going to happen

The bathroom is very small and there really is no way to build it out, without taking away someone closet (mine) or busting into someones room (my sons)

it also has way to much stuff in it for being such a small bathroom. something we plan on rectifying once we get it all fixed

looking at getting a new mirror for over the sink, we are just resetting the existing pedestal sink. also hoping to get a new light fixture for over the mirror and a new faucet for the existing sink.

the space to the left of the door (actually in our bedroom) is going to be a tall, skinny tower from ikea (anyone want to take a trip to Atlanta with me for some shopping) with a mirror on the front of it.

The door to the bathroom will be a sliding barn door which we have dreamed about for a few years.

The tile we chose years ago was travertine for the floor because we loved the look of it. NEVER AGAIN. it is a nightmare to clean and can't be sealed for fear of being extremely slippery.

the water mitigation group came out and demoed the floor they fell through the sub-flooring from being rotten and found rotted beams, one of them actually mobile.

it as been covered with plastic since March 28th. 

We meet with the contractor on April 30th to sign the papers and get the ball rolling on this.

I have a variety of things and ideas in my head for this new bathroom. here are some details we are considering and some tile we considered.