Bathroom Remodeling

We had some cracked tiles in the master bath floor. Decided to fix the tile. You know how that goes. We discovered we only had 4 spare tiles, and then discovered that the toilet had been leaking and the whole floor had to come up. So, I'd always wanted to tear out the cheap plastic tub/shower surround and build a shower. I didn't necessarily want to do this right NOW, but since we had to replace the tile, it was now or never. Too bad I forgot to take a before photo of the bathroom. Here's right after we ripped out the surround. That's part of a curious cat in the lower right corner.
Here it is in progress. In this photo the shower walls were tiled, and the other walls painted but the floor wasn't done.
While we were doing everything else, decided why not make an even bigger mess, and scrape the popcorn texture off the ceiling and make it smooth.
A word of caution... Large tiles look good on shower walls, but they are a pain to install. They are too heavy for the mastic. We would glue a couple of them, hold them for what we thought was long enough, let go and the tiles would come crashing down. We finally had to put nails beneath each tile to hold it. But that wasn't easy either, because that isn't sheetrock, it's cement board. We would pound one nail in and two would fall out, then pound those in and another would come out. Aaaagghhh!

And here it is finished!!



I made a stencil and painted little "tiles" around the back splash to match the little insets in the tile walls and floor.
And I got a roller shade, took it apart and made this shade for the window.
We're on a roll - now we're working on the upstairs bathrooms!