One of the first projects tackled by the contractors (aka Jason's dad's crew) was the bathroom flooring. Both bathrooms upstairs were in desperate need of new floors after water damage over many years had wreaked havoc with the sub floors.
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| The Original Flooring |
The original floors in the main bathroom were a nasty speckled linoleum tile. When the guys pulled it out we discovered that it had been put down over what would have been nice hardwood floors at one point. unfortunately at some point they'd ripped out sections to run new wires or piping or something.
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| New Floors Prior to Grouting |
When the white stick on vinyl molding visible in the photo to the left was pulled up it revealed a big hole where the floor had actually just rotted away over time as water splashed out of the bathtub. Strips of self-sticking molding were the perfect fix????? Right!
Since a complete gut job of the bathroom was out of the question, we decided that we would work with what we had and go with a floor tile option that would both complement the existing color scheme as well as tie in a bit of a historic feel.
The flooring in the baster bath was just nasty plywood sub-flooring since the master at one time had actually been carpeted. Yes... carpeted. Sadly I don't have "before" pictures of the floor in there. (Not missing much!) in that space we decided that since it is so tiny we wanted to so something unexpected and a bit fun. We found some really cheap porcelain tiles with a neat copper and blue glaze which in a large area might be a bit too much, but in such a tiny space really sets things off.
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| Master Bath tile job in progress. (Yes it really is that small!) |
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