My Main Bathroom

  

Ripping apart the bathroom was probably one of the harder parts of this reno.

Especially when we got to the "tank-of-a-tub"!! 

Take a look at the pictures and they will walk you through the renovation.

My Brother working on the plumbing through the plumbing hole in the spare room!

Just for clarification we did re-insalate and installed
poly before this step!

Next time I use Rdex 8+9 i won't be using as much tape(grey stuff) as I did in this
shot. It was more annoying than anything, mainly I would use it on
extremely wide gaps.

Making sure I did everything right!

In-wall niche. Very difficult to mud!

This is at about 90% completion, still have to grout and
install the vanity!

Some things I wish I would’ve done differently:

1. After installing the tile we realized that it would’ve been a lot easier had we removed the walls and installed all new ones. This would be beneficial because the walls in this 1953 house were not exactly straight or level(plaster)! And since we used a 12x24 tile it didn’t turn out so great at some points.
2. During the installation I noticed I shouldn’t have finalized the in-wall shelves until the tile was further up the wall. This would allow me to position one full tile width below the shelf instead of having to cut all my tile around them. And for those of you who know what I am talking about, this takes a lot more time out of your day. But as anxious as I was, I decided that getting the water proofing compound up was more important!
3. In the thought process and budget analysis I wish we would’ve had a new window installed. Although not a critical mistake, now to do this would mean a mass of mess and I think we have had enough of that!! And if in a couple years we redo the rest of them, we may have to leave this one until we redo the tile again. :(
4. Before we started we should’ve picked out the border tiles(the round glass ones). Had we done this I would’ve loved to incorporate some into the flooring. But here we are stuck thinking about it in the aftermath! Maybe I would've just put one double-line of it someone in the floor. I feel like this could’ve pulled the whole bathroom together.... but oh-well!!

Thanks for taking a look! Fully finished photos are soon to come as we are in the process of grouting and installing the vanity and mirror.