As our girls are getting older and friends are making the mass exodus to the burbs. It’s down right depressing! The only way to distract my husband from even considering a move is to update our home.
You may remember our flood in the basement and home office renovation. Next on the home improvement list – updating the master bathroom. Over the past few years we’ve obtained multiple quotes to completely remodel the entire space – removing all the tile from the shower, floor, tub surround – would have cost around $10,000.
Based on the value of our home we’d never recoup that type of investment and honestly I liked our bathroom with the exception of the flooring. When we originally purchased the floors were in good shape, however over the years the tile has become worn and grout lines constantly look dirty.
As much as I love the look of white subway and white octagon tile, it’s extremely difficult to keep clean. Especially because we have outlawed chemical based cleaners. My husband would love nothing more than to change it all but I happen to love the look. The dirty grout lines are my only complaint.
We finally found a contractor that would agree to replace just the flooring and re-grout the subway tiles. Selecting new flooring was simple. After searching Pinterest for ideas, I knew we would go with white marble to compliment the white carrera countertops.
Before Updated Bathroom
Looking at these photos makes me cringe – disgusting. It looks like we never cleaned our floors. Now I see why it was driving us so crazy. Pretty bad uh?
One thing to notice in the photo above, the steam spout in the shower was installed entirely too low causing the floor to crack. Our contractor was able to move up higher during the renovation.
After Updated Bathroom:
How does it look? Definite improvement. I love the basket weave design and the grout lines are almost invisible. The project required replacing a few rows of the subway tiles along the bottom of the shower stall. You can see the slight discoloration but hopefully it’s not that noticeable.
Calacatta Basket Weave Polished Marble Mosaic
