Driver, Move that Bus...

It's time for another episode of The Caldwell's Extreme Home Makeover.
Remember these...

Well, the avocado green bathroom is no longer! May I present to you our new and improved master bathroom......

It's not the all white marble bathroom that I had in my dreams but we had to make a few sacrifices for the sake of the budget! We went for white subway tile in the shower and 4x4 in. slate tiles from Total Liquidation  for the floor.



My plan was to paint the bathroom a shade of white to keep everything feeling clean and airy. However, I decided to abandon that idea when I refused to repaint the cabinets and their slightly yellowish tint just didn't mesh well with any of the white or grayish wall colors I chose.
Oh, and don't worry I will be replacing the mini blinds with a white roman shade and the ugly mats with fresh white ones when funds replenish themselves!


I am absolutely in love with the way the marble counter top came out! Now that is what I had in my dreams! We couldn't frame out the mirror as originally planned because the light fixture was a bit too low and I didn't feel like paying our amazing electrician to come in and move stuff around, no matter how inexpensive he is! So we had to go with the ol' glued on frameless mirror. I quickly got over the disappointment when I remembered how much I love staring at myself so the bigger the better right?


Remember these? I really like how they came out.

Like I said, we couldn't do everything we wanted but what's the old adage? "If you can't be with the one you love, love the your with." So that is what I am doing, I'm loving the bathroom I'm with! Not to mention that we have done something good for humanity and prevented the next buyers from ever having to deal with the same horror of an avocado bathroom that we endured for 14 long months! Yay for us and our good deeds!

Happy Friday and enjoy your Labor day!

The 2K10 Bathroom Shakedown

Let me tell you, when we looked at this house for the first time, I must say, the master bathroom frightened me! The house was "born" in 1968 and has had very little updating; so the avacado green bathroom is truly like walking into a time machine! We have...avacado green floor tile, wall tile, bathtub, sink, and even an avacado green toilet! When we moved in I decided it would be brilliant to try to pull down some wall paper that looked like it was pealing off. However, as I worked I began to find yet another layer of VERY stubborn lime green floral wallpaper, so after getting about half way through with the first layer I waved the white flag of surrender! No amount of neutral shower curtains and rugs could help this situation so thanks to Jennifer and Bobby Trott who gave us the name of a great contractor, our renovation is now in its 3rd day! (if you want our contractors name and number just let me know)

Below are a few pictures of the bathroom when we moved in. The only thing that has changed in the year that we have lived in this house is the wallpaper which was half removed!

Here are a few inspirations for our new bathroom. Check out some other white bathroom inspirations on Rachel's blog.

{via Apartment Therapy}

Lauren sent me to Hardy Royal's warehouse where I found a remnant of this beauty for our countert top:

And here we have our chosen bathroom fixtures from Lowes (how fitting that they are named Caldwell made by Moen!)

We are using white subway tile behind the shower and a pretty light colored slate tile on the floor. If you have any ideas of what color to paint the walls, please share!

Currenly, the bathroom is in shambles but we just got our new WHITE tub installed so I can see the improvements already!

I will be sure to post some "after" photos as soon as it's done!