Master Bath

Take you back to 2009. Our master bath had 1 ugly dated sink, 1 toilet in front of the window staring at the shower, pale blue tiles that went up halfway the wall, No mirror, ripped out light fixture, weird wood racks, 1 Gross GROSS GROSS blue tiled shower! Just awful!

We knew everything just had to go. Then we found out the support beams had to go too, so literally everything had to go. Thankfully we had another bathroom we could use.

Let me state again. THANK YOU WES and STEVE for being so handy and awesome! Love yall!! I beyond love my bathroom!

How did we accomplish this jewel...lots of hard work! SO WORTH IT! Here is how we did it:

Shower or Bathtub? I would have loved to have both, but that would have meant losing a closet. The closet won. :-) Def not sharing a closet with Wes (However he did lose half of his so we could make room for the toilet to have some privacy). So since I compromised I wouldn't on the jet spa tub, which I love and adore. It's my little getaway that calms my nerves. WELL worth the $$.

Tile- I knew I wanted something clean. and it had to go with our room color (Blue) since they were connected. So white won, which was a money saver! I majorly love subway tile, so that was our layout. As an avid HGTV watcher a way to throw in "fancy" tiles is through accents. If I had my way and lots of $$ my entire bathroom would have been glass tiles...but I had to settle on a strip. It's so gorgeous!! The floor tile and our vanity counter are Marble. We scored on these in Home Depots discount section. Before you order always check out that section. If it doesn't have enough for your project just ask if there is more in the back...because in our case there was and HELLO SAVINGS!

Lights- All the lights around the sink are from Restoration Hardware. Baller! Well, not really thanks to outlets! :-) The one above is a Sutton and the side sconces are Keller. Total $397 retail...OMG! Thankfully I got 57% off...Yes I only paid $170! SCORE! They give it such a fancy hotel feeling.

Sinks and Faucets- After LOTS and LOTS of research/price stalking. I finally found a dealer that was amazing! The sink typically run about $120 and the faucet about $145. I only paid half! I wanted a vessel sink, but nothing too hip so I went with classic white ceramic. I never knew before our house remodel faucets were SOOOOO dang expensive!

Vanity- This was our hardest thing to find. We needed it to at least be 60 inches and of course when we were moving pipes around in the wall we didn't think that out too well. Which made the vanity shopping EVEN more difficult. We needed something with the doors on the outside and drawers in the middle in a dark wood.....well if anyone has looked for those HELLO EXPENSIVE LADIES! This purchase was coming toward the end of our budget so I REALLY couldn't put it to myself to spend over $500 for it. Which is unheard of!

So HGTV saved the day again. Kitchen cabinets! So that is exactly what we did. Two 36 inch in-stock sink cabinets that we screwed together. We could have bought material to cover the kickboard but I wanted it to be 1 seamless piece so we bought baseboard that I stained to match. My father-in-law made the countertop with trim (that I stained) so we could have a place to lay the tile. I cut and stained the trim work around the backsplash. GO ME! What do you end up with? 1 AWESOME KITCHEN HEIGHT (love not having to bend over far to wash my face) CUSTOM CABINET!!

Mirror- All custom. Sensing a pattern?! Since our vanity is so large that mirror would have been EXPENSIVE. Sense another pattern?! Bathroom reno is expensive! I tried to find one to fit that we could have purchased but that failed miserably since I didn't want to pay an arm and leg for one. So luckly my in-laws had an old mirror that they took down from their house (They had a room with a mirror wall) we got it cut down to size for FREE! Even better! Then my FIL made the frame, which I stained. My staining wasn't up to my par on this one but apparently only I notice the flaws...but I was tired and OVER staining.

Clothes Hamper-This took forever to find too. I wanted something that rolled so I could just roll it up to the garage to load rather than making 3 trips for every load so I wouldn't drop anything. Pain. The back pocket is for my clothes only (Wes isn't allowed to wash my clothes. Men don't understand the concept of not everything goes in the dryer.). The middle pocket is for towels and the front is for everything else. Perfect system. No more clothes on the floor.

So what's left?! Only 2 things!!! YAH!!!! I think I'm about to cross out some things from my "House" post.
1. Hang a cabinet over the toilet. (Which I'm purchasing tomorrow 20% off!)
2. Find floating shelves (Since I obviously have more stuff than Wes I want to keep our counters clear, so I need somewhere to store my makeup and brushes.)

There you have it ladies and gentlemen one awesome bathroom. So blessed!