Bathroom Renovation

Earlier this year, my husband and I took it upon ourselves to renovate a very outdated bathroom in a townhouse. We planned it at very short notice when we thought the tenants were moving out. Then, a day or so before we were due to start, their moving plans fell through and they decided to stay after all!

This left us with two choices. One: to postpone the renovation, or two: to proceed anyway. Fortunately the tenants decided that they could shower elsewhere while we were working (since the place only had the one bathroom), so proceed we did.

Over the space of a very frantic and exhausting two weeks, we completely overhauled the bathroom. Of course this was in and around full time jobs and a uni assignment being due. Needless to say, we were glad when it was over.

Here is how it started.

Our two weeks of toil certainly were worthwhile in the end, but we did have a few minor mishaps. Here is the finished product:

We added a dwarf wall between the shower and the toilet, to add a bit of privacy.

We realised after our tiler had tiled the shower that he had cut the tiles out to fit around the taps that remained from the existing bath. In our amateur-ness, we hadn't realised that they needed to be removed when we were installing just a shower. Without pulling off the entire tiles (and possibly the wall with them), there wasn't much we could do. So Tom spent a great deal of time making them as flat as possible, and we ended up covering them up with a leftover 300mm x 100m ceramic tile in 'alabaster' left over from our house tiling. Not an ideal outcome, but certainly better than ripping up the tiling.

Tom and I upon completion, looking both exhausted and pleased with ourselves.