Bathroom remodel

Wow, the holidays were busy. I'm gonna try to catch up on all the stuff we have done lately.


Our most recent project, which happened this past week, was a bathroom remodel. 

We went from this....

to this...

...in 3 days.  It was somewhat of a forced remodel.  Here is the story:

A week or two before Christmas, we had a really cold spell go through here.  The night time lows were in the -20's and the daytime highs didn't make it out of the negatives for about 3 or 4 days.  On one of these days, we noticed we had no water to our tub, which usually indicates that the pipes going to that tub are frozen up.  This happens on occasion, but is usually easily fixed with a little warm air.  Well, after an hour of warm air and still no water, we kinda started to panic that maybe we were frozen up enough that we would end up with burst pipes.  So Ryan tore our tub apart to get underneath it better and get more warmth in there.  After getting it all torn apart, we realized that nowhere else in the house had water either.  It had actually frozen in the garage where the boiler is.  So long story short, we got it all unfrozen, got the pipe insulated better and now had a torn up bathroom we had to fix.

We built our house in 2001 and went really neutral and boring on everything.  So we are slowly going through and painting some color and changing and updating stuff.  We were going to get to this bathroom eventually, but now we just had to do it.  We removed the rest of the tile from the walls, tub, and floor.  We replaced a bit of sheetrock, repainted, replaced the fermica counter with a new granite one and rebuild the surround around the tub and retiled everything.  We are so happy with how it all turned out. Now all that is left is to get new towel hangers, toilet paper hanger and get some new rugs that match our new bathroom.

If you are in the southeastern Idaho or western Wyoming area and need some tile work done, Ben is awesome. Here is a link to his website. Give him a call.