Bathroom Remodel!

Who knew that when you give us a free bathroom vanity we are going to re-do my mom’s guest bathroom? Well we knew…. 

We happened upon a very nice vanity that no one wanted and so we decided to put it to good use by putting it in my mom’s guest bathroom. We love projects - which works out really nicely when you have a husband who can basically do anything. He is modest and will never make that claim of himself but if you have something that is broken, take it to Kyle and 99.9% of the time he will hand it back to you fixed. 

We had been planning on working on the bathroom for a couple of months now and started dreaming about paint colors, wall décor, tile and cabinet knobs. But then we had to get all of this stuff to my mom’s house which was not an easy task... it is a good thing we have such an awesome wagon:

This baby was loaded down with boxes of tile, the vanity, a bunch of Kyle's tools, our luggage, some camping gear (cause we went camping too on our trip) a shop vac and many other various things including a jack hammer.

After arriving at my mom's on a Thursday morning we got right to work. My mom, brother, and grandma were gone until Saturday so we tried to get as much of the bathroom done before they got back. I kinda forgot to get some good "before" pics but here are a couple:

(Don't let that rectangle on the back wall confuse you, the mirror is reflecting the flash) 

(we had already removed the toilet before we took this picture)

So here is what our remodeling weekend looked like: 

Thursday - Demo and discovering that we had to do some dry wall and more plumbing than originally planned....That nasty black pipe had to be moved for us to get the vanity in. Good thing Kyle can do plumbing and dry wall. 

Friday - Finished up the dry wall patch and let it dry...then painted and started laying some tile! 

That night two of my wonderful cousins came over with their awesome spouses and we got to have dinner, laugh and spend time together, unfortunately I did not get a picture of this. 

Saturday - The guys finished tiling while the girls went shopping for some decor. 

That afternoon my mom, Chris and grandma got back and since Kyle was preaching at Eagle Rock Baptist Church that night we took a little break from the bathroom. 

Also on Saturday I worked on the wall decor that I was making. I saw this idea on pinterest and wanted to try it out. 

(those are toilet paper tubes cut up and glued together)

(then spray painted it)

Sunday - Kyle preached again for the two Sunday services at ERBC and did a great job I might add. We got to have a great time of fellowship as we had lunch after church and shared what the Lord is doing in Uganda. We were so blessed by the love that was shown to us by our family at ERBC. After we rested for a bit we got back to work and put the vanity in the bathroom... it was a tight fit through the door but we got it!

Monday - We did the finishing touches on the bathroom and made it all ready before we had some people over for a BBQ that night. Here is the highly anticipated "After" shots:

Hope you enjoyed the process as much as we did!

Maybe by the end of the week I will tell you more of what we did on the rest of our vacation.