The bathroom, part I

So, I think what I'll do is post the "before" pics of the bathroom today, and you can have the "after" pics tomorrow. That way you get a bit of a sense of anticipation - not dissimilar to the very long wait I've had for it to be finished (more than two years!) only much, much shorter. Same, same but different, as they say.

So, here's what it used to look like:


The wall tiles had been painted grey - and not with tile paint, someone had just slapped ordinary paint over the tiles. FAIL. the cupboards, woodwork, doors etc were painted the same dark grey, and the walls a drab lighter grey. The bottom of the shower was brown mosaic tiles (I have a mosaic tile phobia, I can't stand them - literally, I can't stand ON them, so you can see my thongs in the bottom of the shower to protect my feet from the icky), the door of the shower was one of those three-panel things that get mouldy in the middle. There was no ventilation. So when I say moudly, I mean MOULDY.


This was the vanity - grey doors, grey laminate top a washing machine tub on one side and a grey basin on the other. Did I mention the whole frigging thing was grey? Way to choose a depressing colour for everything, previous owners. You can see the grey door and the daggy 80s doorhandle in the corner of this one. The washing machine drained directly into the sink.



You can see the paint peeling on the wall behind the towel rail, if you look closely.

Everything was very disorganised because it was too depressing to try to organise anything when everything was so... grey.

Close up of the icky mosaic tiles, with the grey pebbles I planned to replace them with (ok, a *small* amount of grey is not so bad).

And a general sort of shot, showing the bath, shower and towel rail.

In fact the grey was so depressing that it made me just long for shiny whiteness, so the new bathroom (really just an updated bathroom - do you know how much it costs to rip everything out and start again from scratch? I nearly fainted when I got quotes!) is mostly white. As you'll see tomorrow - same bat channel.