Bathroom Reveal!!!! (#1)

This IS IT!!!! The first big bathroom reveal!!

As you may know, we've been in the process of renovating 2 (yes 2) of our bathrooms over the past 5 months. It was a long process (and by long, I mean LOOOOONNNGGGG) and a lot of blood, sweat and tears were put into these renovations.

Renovating was one of the biggest challenges we've had to face in the world of homeownership. It takes a lot out of you, and in the end I am happy to say that things have turned out just that way we hoped they would :)

We moved into this house with the idea that we would renovate these bathrooms- we just had no idea it would take as long as it did!

After watching countless renovation tv shows, reading tons of magazines and being inspired by some of our favorite designers we had a lot of ideas and thankfully they all worked together fabulously!

This reveal is for the first bathroom we started- the Main Bath (or "Kids Bath", as I usually refer to it as).

Here it how it began:

We replaced everything. Tub, toilet, vanity, countertop, sink, fixtures, lights, floors, walls (thankfully only 1!) and hardware.

The tub was replaced with a white square tub which we sourced from Home Depot. We wanted something that was square in shape for a reasonable price. We put white 3x8 subway tiles on the wall in the shower and a band of grey mosaic tile throughout the shower.

The toliet, we managed to get on sale (for a great deal!) at the Grand Opening of the first Lowes store in our city for under $100.00. We actually got the store at 7:00am when it opened and managed to get 4 toliets in our cart, as people were grabbing them left, right and centre! When you replace a toilet with a low-flush toilet in our city, you are offered a rebate from the city, so we managed to spend less than $90 on each toilet.

The countertop is its own story. We actually went through 3 countertops to get the one we have. The first company we went with cut the first 2 tops wrong...horribly wrong. However, Graniteworx came to our rescue and cut us a beautiful quartz top for a great deal and installed it beautifully. We love the quartz- easy to clean, great for a bathroom and looks awesome.

The undermount sink was done by Graniteworx as well. We love the shape and its definitely a good quality sink that we know will last us while. The sink we had to replace was steel and had actually rusted out, so this was a mandatory change.

The faucet and shower fixtures were by Lowes and Rona and we love how they look. We got the sink tap on sale for a good price, and I love that its water efficient.

We installed potlights in the ceiling, ceramic tiles on the floors, replaced a wall that needed fixing and new hardware on the doors.

Here is our new tub:



New countertop and vanity:

New toilet:

 And some new accessories:

We're really happy with how it all came together :)

Thanks for sticking with us through this major project! We appreciate all the suggestions/support and help we received from some great friends and family :)

Ive listed all the sources, but if you have any questions or comments on anything we've done feel free to ask!

Sources:

Tub- Maax (Home Depot)
Subway Tile/Mosaic Tile- (Dantes and Tile Master)
Toilet- American Standard- Dual Flush (Lowe's)
Cabinet above toilet- Allen + Roth (Lowes)
Vanity- Allen + Roth (Lowes)
Countertop- Caesarstone (Quartz)- (Graniteworx)
Sink- Kohler
Faucet- Price Pfister (Lowes)
Shower Fixtures- Uber Haus (Rona)
Vanity Light- Icecube Wall Light (Lowes)
Floors- Ceramic Light Grey- (The Source)
New Door Handle- Weiser (Home Depot)


Accessories:
Mirror- (Urban Barn)
TP Holder, Towel Bar - (Home Sense)
Picture Frames- (Ikea)
Flowers- (Home Sense)
Cotten Ball Jar, Soap Dispenser- (Home Sense)
Shower Curtain- (Home Sense)

Paint:
Trim- Simply White- (Benjamin Moore)
Walls- Misty Moonstone- (Dulux)


1 reno down, 1 to go! Stay tuned for the Master Ensuite reveal!! :)

Bathroom Reno's....correction- DEMO'S!

In an earlier post, I mentioned that we are getting ready to renovate our first bathroom or the "kids bathroom" as we like to call it (I know, we dont have kids, but ONE DAY they will be using it-lol!).

Here are some pics of the demo process.
Ian will probably say I doubted him and his abilities to do the demo (and I must say I MIGHT have questioned his abilities...a little) but he did a great job, and I even helped carry the tub down the stairs! Thank you pump classes at the gym! lol...


The actual renovation started today, so it wont be long before I'll be posting the "after" pictures.

Let me remind you of what the bathroom looked like before:

And now for the demo pics:

Toilet gone:

walls around shower getting taken down:

vanity gone:

tub fill of wall reminants, but soon to be removed:

Ian doing an awesome job, and pretty proud of his accomplishments! :)

Everything removed (walls, tub, etc):

Demo complete!

Stay tuned for some more updates on how the progress is coming along....all I can say right now, is that the sub floor is down, tub is in, and its coming along very nicely ;)

Bathroom Renos

When purchasing our new home, one of the things that we knew we were going to do first, was to update/renovate the bathrooms. The 2 upstairs bathrooms were definitely in need of some work, as the tub and sinks were rusted out (metal sinks!), toilets were old, barely functioning and needed to be replaced with water saving/energy efficient ones, and all decor needed to be changed.

We are currently in the process of working on the upstairs main bath (or "kids bath") as I like to call it, as it is much smaller and is a good "starting" project for us.

I will post pictures as our progress continues, but here are the before shots:

Main/Kids Bath BEFORE

Master Ensuite BEFORE

Main Floor Powder Room BEFORE

Now, dont be fooled, by the nice lighting and angles in these pictures-lol. These pictures were all taken by the realator who sold this house, so they so look a bit better in these pics. Regardless, you can see the challenge we are working with in the master ensuite, since we have decided to take everything out and start fresh.

Stay Tuned...more pics (and progress!) to come!