Home Improvement - The Master Bath

After coming home from visiting family late January, we found out we had 2 water leaks (in both bathrooms), and a rather large water bill!  After fixing one leak rather quickly in the main bathroom, we realized that to fix the other leak we had to tear up a small part of our master bathroom!  So we decided to go ahead and remodel the whole bathroom while were were at it!  We figured this late winter/spring season was a good time to do some home improvement projects anyway, since things will be REALLY busy in the summer!  So we're thankful to God that we've got done a bit already. 

Here are some before pics of our master bathroom.  Unfortunately they're so old, they date to before we even bought the house, when we were looking at it!  I just hadn't taken any since, I guess...so the stuff in each of these before pics is not ours. :)

The leak was under the jacuzzi tub; so we tore it up, gave it to Curt's sister, and in its place decided to put in our first and only full bathtub/shower.  I was probably the one most sad to see it go, but Curt wasn't a huge fan of it, and we only used it a few times in 2010.

The sink area - the sinks were plastic and had some pretty old faucets! 

 There was a very, very tiny shower in it, so that you could barely turn around in it without bumping your elbow!  Also, the removable shower head simply would not stay in place, so you would put it up, and it would fall down and knock you in the head as you showered! :( Needless to say, we almost always used the main bathroom for showering (unless we had guests).

Here's Curt after the whole room was gutted!  He's working on putting up the sheet rock.

Dad Crick and Curt putting in the tub

 Sanding, sanding, and more sanding!

 Our living room turned into a work station for several weeks!  Dust was everywhere, but it was the area with the most open space, close enough to the bathroom, and a place we wouldn't get snowed on or rained on as we worked!
Here I am painting the trim.

 Here the room is painted with our favorite color - blue! :)  

 Next step was trim and floor!  And the new light/fan fixture!  (This was Curt's invention: to take this light, drill holes in the base, and make it into a two-featured device - light and fan.  It worked really well!)

 Now the vanity is put in, the mirror/medicine cabinet (one of my favorite features), the toilet, 

and the shower rod with plastic shower lining.

 Joanna added the black curtain, the towel/magazine rack (we love how close it is to the shower!), and a few decorations, and Curt added the towel bars!

 Instead of the tiny, almost useless shower, Curt put in a new closet!  Yay!  It's directly to the left as you walk in the door, before you come to the sink area.  We don't have an attic, so the more closets the better!  Hopefully soon we'll put in shelves.

Here's a picture of the vanity and mirror more up close!  

I love all the drawers and amazing amount of medicine cabinet space (behind each mirror)!!  

Hope you enjoyed walking through our master bath home improvement journey with us!  Let us know what you think, or if you have done some recent remodeling in your bathrooms or elsewhere in the house!  

We'd love to hear from you!