Spare Bathroom Overhaul

One of the first rooms we tackled was the spare bath because while we were only living in one room, having a decent bathroom is fairly essential. This is one room that I did not get a before picture of before the boys started the demolition process. Imagine dated fixtures, awful laminate floors and lovely green walls with some sort of texture done in a cream on top of the green. 

Needless to say, we completely gutted the bathroom, shower and all, and decided to go with a pre-fab shower, tile floor and updated fixtures. Here's the mood board I created for the room: 

I wanted to go with penny tiles, but Brent wasn't quite on board so we met in the middle with a hex & dot pattern and went with white tile and a medium grey grout. Brent completed the tile over the course of 2 days, but the entire bathroom took almost a month (working only on weekends) from start to finish. If you are thinking using penny tile in a room in your house, check out this great tutorial from the DIY Village. 

The vanity & mirror were easy choices and after a bit of back and forth we landed on a vintage-ish fixture. 

Links:

Vanity/Sink: Ikea

Tile: Lowes

Mirror: Lowes

Light: Lowes

Introduction

Hi! Chelsea here with #RenovationRealities. We are currently renovating our home, doing most of the work ourselves and living in the house while we do it! We have taken down several walls, completely gutted both bathrooms, replaced all of the flooring and much, much more. Through the use of Pinterest and many, many blogs I have planed and designed every detail of our house. No designers, no contractors, just a girl and the internet.

Social media has made it possible for the average american to renovate their own home without paying someone to design and implement their vision.

I want to share how I use social media to create our dream home as well as share our failures, successes, before&afters and maybe even a how-to (or two) along the way.  I hope you'll follow along on our journey from renovation to reality; I promise lots of pictures!

Here is a little sneak peak; when the walls started to come down...