Pulp Bath Reno 2

Pulp Bath Reno 2

When it starts to come together….it really starts coming together! We had one of those week’s here at the Pulp Bath Reno 2. The kind where you start to sense the finish line is near. And that, my friends, is a good place to be!

As we left off in last week’s update, we had finished waterproofing of the shower walls and floor and were ready to get busy with tile. We kicked it off with the shower floor tile and the shower cubbies. We went with a cross shaped patterned sheet tile (like sheet penny tile, just in a cross shape) for floor and were able to creatively cut some larger porcelain floor tiles into the tiles that make up the cubbies (2) with a couple nice stone shelves, surrounding both cubbies with some nice ceramic trim tiles. So far so good and we are ready to go for the wall tiling (going with 4 × 4 square tiles for the three shower walls).

Prior to finishing out the shower tile, we really wanted to get busy with the rest of the room wall tile, so that is exactly what we did! Due to the transitions that we have planned, kind of felt it was best (and smoothest) to go with full floor to ceiling tile on the walls adjacent to the shower itself, and then do a transition to four foot tall wall tile with paint going the rest of the way up to ceiling (and as you can see, walls and ceiling are all painted with the same green color, so it looks pretty cool)!

The real game changer, however, came mid-week when the sink vanity and makeup counter tops arrived and were installed! As luck would have it, the stone choice was a direct match for the shower curb (which you might think we had thought ahead about, but we really did not, it just happened). Now remember, you might recall, the original bathroom only had the one sink, so seeing the new counter with the two sinks in it just plain made our days, you know, that feeling of a working room, like you can just taste it. Plus, it’s just really nice to have counters so you can put things on them!

And as would have it, when you start to get close to completion, you start to think about those finish items, one such item being wall decor. In our case, we’ve got a decent amount of exposed walls and, of late, we’ve been keeping our eyes open on the antique shopping runs for something that might do the room justice. And then the switch went off, aka, lightbulb went on….we have this wonderful collection of Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach limited edition nature prints….why not get a few framed and then use them as a central theme for the overall look of the room? Decision made, we picked out a set of Ray’s small bird prints and brought them down to the frame folks to get them ready to go. It’s going to look great!

Time to go get some more tile done. Some progress pics adjacent and below. See you next week!