In the last couple of weeks we tiled the floor! The husband did most of it while I provided a lot of moral support. I decided I wanted to do a herringbone design on the floor and he was gracious enough to spend a lot of time cutting tiles to make that work. It got a little tricky in our linen closet and toilet room but he did such a great job. The floor looks amazing (we still need to clean it more).
This past weekend we painted one coat of paint, installed recessed lighting above the vanity area, tub, and shower, and started tiling the shower area. The painting situation was pretty hilarious. I'm typically the organized one who makes sure we've thought through things and are doing things in the right order. I've had some problems with neck pain and headaches lately so I was taking pain medicine and a muscle relaxer Saturday. Let's just say that those kind of meds do not make for clear thought processes. We got started on painting and realized we still needed to prime. Whoops! :) No worries, we stopped and primed and then painted. I opted not to take the muscle relaxer the next day so I could be more on top of things!
The recessed lighting turned out to be much more time consuming than we expected. Initially we were going to put three above the vanity, one over each sink and one in between. Of course there was a stud in the way. After going back and forth about what to do, we decided to go with four recessed lights. You can never have enough light right?!? In the previous bathroom we had really big terribly ugly recessed lights and the small ones we put in are much nicer.
After we finished with the recessed lighting, we started the shower wall tile. The husband installed ledger boards around the shower. Ledger boards give you a completely level surface to start tiling. After that, we installed three rows of tile above the ledger board. Once that sets, we can remove the ledger boards and use those three rows as the level basis from which we tile the rest of the shower and wall.
We pushed through Monday night to finish painting after work and the husband installed the cabinet bases Tuesday night while I was at group. So much visible progress in five days!! It feels really good to have made this progress and I think we're both ready to get this thing done.
