Vanity - Vanity - Vanity

Shopping for vanities boils down to one thing and one thing only.  Money. You can spend as much as you want. Custom made with baby seal lined drawers and dipped in gold. The cheaper ones look like crap and the whole baby seal thing turned us off.  So what to do?  DIYNetwork had a idea promo for using a piece of furniture as a vanity. Searching Craigslist while we were doing our other work paid off. We found a china buffet we hoped would work. It would have to be refinished and if it doesn't work we use a real vanity as a back up.  Here is the start of the refinishing of the buffet.  The top has a coat of stripper applied - it didn't come with an orange top.

What would the wood look like under that white paint and varnish? Pretty damn good - FTW!!!

Fixing Up the Walls and Slapping on the Paint

Spackle on the walls... a lot of sanding... and painting.  They walls are done. The color is awesome. You'll have to wait to see the walls all done. It's worth the wait.

First Time Tiling - pretty good (but not great).

I've never installed tiled a floor before - or anything else. But, watching enough DIYNetwork and HGTV it seemed doable.  We decided on 2"x2" tiles which came in 1'x1' sheets. Luckily, the dimensions of the room only had us removing a row of tiles for the walls, and only a few tiles to be nipped around the toilet opening.  Here is before it was grouted.

Grouting the tile was pretty easy. We went with an almond color and it matched the tile a lot better than we expected. As an added bonus the tile actually made the pink tub look better as well.  Here is the tile with grout in before cleaning off the tile.

And now with the grout cleaned off - not too bad. Kind of happy with the results. A few issues with the thinset mortar showing through the grout. That can be fixed.

Let the Construction Begin...

In order to tile the bathroom floor backer board was installed over the sub-flooring. Pretty easy install - access hole for the toilet and a few notches for baseboard and that was about it.

More Demo Work...

The toilet was pulled - oh if you haven't had the joy of removing an old wax ring from the base of the toilet you haven't lived. Nasty ring of waxy filth - craptastic experience.  Once, that slice of joy was up the flooring was pretty easy to pull up. The sub-flooring was in pretty good shape - the first pleasant surprise of the demo work so far. Since the removing the tub would require a major update to the tile work, we decided to leave it. It can be hidden with shower curtain - see the post of original bath.

New Colors

Decided on new colors... an aqua-ish blue for the walls and a tan for the trim.  They are at the top. Thanks for the free samples Glidden!  We had to pay for the samples at Home Depot.

Medicine Cabinet is out.

More wall issues are revealed. Dammit.