master bath

this project started the night we got the keys... Matt and I had briefly talked about the idea of opening up the small master bathroom by taking out the door to the shower/toilet area and putting a main door to the entire bathroom instead. It was something we liked, but I wasn't under the impression it was a confirmed plan. As I am downstairs working on the first stages of wall paper, Matt comes down and says... "Want to know what Nick and I just did?" I say sure without hesitation because I'm thinking it's just something funny.
Matt: "We tore down the wall in the bathroom!"
me: "You did WHAT?!?! I didn't know we were for sure doing that?!?!"
Matt: "Well, we are now!"  
me: "Ok, but that is the first and last decision you get to make before checking with me first!"

Thankfully this was something I really wanted to do, so I truly wasn't mad, it was just funny because we had hardly been there an hour and they were already breaking down walls. There were a number of things we were going to have to fix/update in that bathroom, so we figured we may as well just make it nice from the beginning instead of doing some here and some there later down the road.

A before shot. Look at all that wallpaper... and no door for the sink area. 

Here is a doorway for the toilet and shower. You can see how small this little space is. 

View from the tub. There was a light and fan switch on the wall in there.  

And the fun begins...

Demolition King

All the way down

See how it already looks more open?

A new view from the tub

And.... the wall is gone!! 

And the next project that Matt's dad Tom graciously tackled was installing a new door that enclosed the entire space... Not just that little toilet area.

New frame is all dry-walled in

A new door :) Very sweet deal. 

Since we had to get rid of the switches on the wall we took down, they were added here. 

This was the first can light Matt installed and as you can see we had success which helped our case for installing cans everywhere. 

A little preview of what the shower walls will look like. In addition to subway tiling the shower, we also raised the shower head because I swear it was about neck height. Maybe the previous owners were little people. :)

And lastly, me starting the Rustoleum kit on the cabinets. Downstairs we used Pure White with the glaze but for the master bath we decided to go with plain white. 

Woohoo! It feels good writing this blog, because I am starting to realize all we've accomplished so far. We've had a great team helping along the way too! :)