And they pooped happily ever after

The big reveal!

OMG!!

Okay, so this beautiful lighting was actually a gift from happychippyjunk (my sister Laughter's blog) and CSN. Exciting, no? Thanks, Laf!!

(And yes, my towel ring is in the shape of a cow's head)




Also, I was able to re-use the old mirrors after having a nice fella at Logan Glass cut them down to size for us. I just made some frames for them and WALLAH! Fun fact: The floorboard and mirror frames are made of a light weight, waterproof material that was so light that I was able to use the hot glue gun to put the frames together. Now tell me... HOW GHETTO FABULOUS am I?!?! WORD UP.

And the sign says, "I bathe once a year, whether I need it or not." How very true.




Oops, I forgot to warn you, I painted the bathroom a color so intense that it actually may induce an epileptic seizure. Look away and blink often to avoid any permanent brain damage. On an unrelated note: the paint only cost $5 for a gallon at the mis-tints table!



The T is for Terlet. FYI.





And here are some of the fine details. For example, lovely floor boards. Also, smooth caulk lines along the vanity top. And why yes, I did texture the walls myself. Why am I posting these pics? To prove that we were sober at times...





And lastly, the reason we sobered up: The ugliest ceiling line KNOWN TO MAN. Man, that thinset dries crazy hard! Also, Hippy was uninvited from caulking after this.



In closing, here is an inspirational message from Hippy (as seen on our neighbor's stone fence/wall):

The great bathroom douching of 2010

...So where were we?

Oh right... so we finished the bathroom and I was going to show you some real perdy pictures of it.

BUT FIRST!!

Lets remember where we started:






Ugly lights, ugly mirror thingys, ugly mauve and violet tile. No shower, only bath. Linoleum. It was the Steve Buscemi of bathrooms.

And then... we worked hard. I know I've already shown you a lot of the "during" pictures, but here are a few more, in no particular order. Because I need you to remember all the swearing and booze that was required to get through this stupid project. It'll help make the final reveal all the better:

So here I am tiling the shower walls. This task would take a normal person a day or two. I believe it took us about 2 months. We are really slow. Also, we are really into a little phenomenon called instantaneous satisfaction... so these two characteristics seemed to clash at times. No big deal.



Tiling the floor... and getting better and better at faking for the camera!!



And here is what it would look like if a member of 'Nsync were to grout your floor:



This next pictures makes me want to die a little. This is Hippy scraping the poopy toilet wax out of the sewer line after we removed the terlet (aka toilet) before we started tiling. It was gross.



But then we reinstalled the toilet, and it was less gross!




Right then. Its almost time for the big reveal (Yes, I know that a couple pics were already posted a little while ago, but lets pretend like you didn't see them, mmk?)!! Its time for the grand opening!! I wish I had a celebrity here to cut the red ribbon with some oversized scissors... but our local celebrity, Jones McBonbonson, will have to do:




But wait... I feel like this post is just too massive already... so I'm going to give the after pictures their own post. WOOOOOOOOO!! brb