Bathroom Upgrades - Phase 1

Popeye and I are upgrading our bathrooms. We bought our house a couple of years ago and one of the first things I said we had to replace was the flooring in the bathrooms.

Bathroom Carpet and Tile

Our bathrooms have carpet in them. Yes, you read that right... CARPET. Who does that? I mean really, the bathroom is a damp environment. You wash your hands and accidentally drip on the floor. You get out of the shower and you drip on the floor. Gross, carpet in the bathroom is gross.

The area around the toilets has tile floors, but the tile is not cool. It is an ugly tile, that shows every single speck of dirt. Little Bears bathroom tiles have a crack across a couple. It is not tile that I would ever pick.

So, two weeks ago we ordered vinyl plank flooring at Home Depot. We were supposed to be able to pick it up on this past Friday. Sadly, Home Depot messed up our special order so when we went to get our flooring they said, "Oh we messed up your special order. We will have to place your order again." So, we have another week or so of waiting.

As part of our bathroom project, we are painting and replacing the light fixtures. We brought home four different samples of white paint this weekend. One of our projects this week is to paint a little bit of the wall and see which white we like best. This white will be carried throughout the house eventually.

One of our old light fixtures

Our vanity lights are light fixtures on steroids. They had 8 bright light bulbs each and this was way too much for the bathroom. We are replacing them with less bulky light fixtures that are the same color as the faucets and other fixtures.

We bought light fixtures today. When we came home to install them, we pulled the old ones down and found a mess. When they installed the lights they ran the electrical wires in front of a stud and behind the old light fixture. When they removed the sheetrock enough to do this, I think, they used a hammer. It looks like they just smashed the sheetrock back into the wall to get enough out of the way to get the wires where they needed to be. Well, this made a huge mess. I will be patching the uneven holes. Popeye will be fixing the wiring and installing the new light fixtures. I would assume the other two fixtures we are replacing will be much the same.

So... what began as an easy and quick project has now become a major project in more ways than one. While it may be a pain it will be well worth it when we finish.