Cleaning, Re-Arranging and Renovating...

 With winter comes interior cleaning, re-arranging and sometimes renovations.  This year we decided to clean up, re-arrange (a little bit) and renovate our bathroom.

This is the only bathroom in the house so it gets a bit of use, and over time, the floor tile had worn away over specific spots enough that screws and cracks in the sub floor translated to the tile.  Granted it wasn't expensive tile to start with, and was probably laid in a hurry in an effort to spruce up the room and make it more attractive to potential purchasers.  The walls and ceiling had also been painted and though the colours are ok, they're not what I would have chosen. The whole room was not bad, but not great either and not my style.

So, when the cracks in the flooring tile began to appear, we decided it was time to "fix" the floor - by replacing the tile.  Found what I wanted at Home Hardware.

The tile was obtained.  Yay!

So...if we're going to do the floor, why not paint the walls and ceiling?!!?  Great idea!  Finally we'll get rid of the green ceiling and woodwork and have white instead, and choose a new colour other than lilac for the walls.  Home Hardware on sale again!

Got the paint!  Yay!

So, now we're looking at the rest of the room...Love the sink, but it's really too big for the space, maybe we can find something a little smaller.  Hmmmmmmmm. Canadian Tire has just the thing... and it's on SALE!!  Got that!  W00T!

Love the style of the sink, maybe we should see if we can find a toilet to match that has a lever instead of a push button for a flush mechanism...  wait!  Central has the exact one we want - ON SALE!!  W00T W00T!!

So after much trial and tribulation, the bathroom was finished.  The flooring is better, though has some issues that will have to wait until we are out of the busy planting season to fix, and there are a few touch ups to do paint wise, but the room is essentially finished.

These are the "before" photos.

 The infamous push button flushing toilet.  Nothing wrong with it and I love the style, but I hate that push button.

 The matching sink - very large basin, beautiful pedestal sink, just too big for the spot it's in.  The partition for the end of the tub just doesn't allow much wiggle room.  Much easier and less costly to replace the sink than the partition wall.  The light fixture is also dated and will be replaced. 

The window curtains.  They go with the room - all colour coordinated and all.  Good view of the colour of the wall - nice but not for me.

This is the corner on the other side of that tub partition wall - a linen closet.  The woodwork, ceiling and door are painted green.  Ugh.

So along the way we also replaced two of the three light fixtures and a couple of towel bars so now things have a bit more of a pulled together look...and just about everything was on sale!!  Go me!

Here is the new look!

 This is the new toilet - more efficient in use of water, smaller tank size and it has a lever on the side - no push button!  Also the seat and lid have a self closure so all you have to do is start it on it's way down and it closes itself silently.  No more toilet lid bangs in the middle of the night.  :-D

 Here is the new sink - much smaller from back to front, in a more updated style.  The mirror is also new - on sale at Winners.  Love it! 

Here's another view of the sink.  We'll probably move the glass shelf  because we've been bumping into it when we brush our teeth, but it's ok for now.  Note the dark floor - much richer looking.  And of course, the kitties had to get in on the action...

Here you can see the window, and the bench below it.  As much as I love my rocker, it really doesn't belong in the bathroom, and the bench was on sale at Canadian Tire.  Casey has adopted it as her new favourite place to snooze.  Also from Canadian Tire is the new light fixture over the sink complete with square shades. (on sale too!)  

I haven't decided whether or not to put a curtain on the window; the clean lines of the Roman blind kind of go with the rest of the room.  

The woodwork is now all white and provides a nice contrast to the green walls.

The bathroom sides of both doors are green - and they are framed by the white casings.  Looks great!

We are really happy at how this turned out.  Over the summer we will put the finishing touches on (fixing the floor, touching up the paint etc.) and enjoy it.

Next winter we'll attack the master bedroom...look out world, here we come!