Bathroom Tile Project: Day 4 "The 95% Reveal!"

    Okay, home stretch.  Here is where we are at after 4 glorious days of working.  She is so beautiful!  We are not totally done, but we hit a few roadblocks that will take a bit of time to fix.  Until then, here is the picture.

After the jump, you can see the whole process of mixing and applying grout, organizing tiles and putting up the mop board as well as some unexpected problems.

Bathroom Tile Project: Day 3 "Tile Installation"

    My sister's idea for the title of this post was Day 3: "Party in the Bathroom Tile USA featuring Tiley Cyrus".   Other ideas brainstormed were "The Tile High Club", "Goin' a Tile a Minute", "Tile 'n Out", and "The I-tile-ian Job".   Or what about "Tiler Perry's Big Fat Tilin' Barbeque Weekend"?

After the jump you can see all of the ups and downs of day three.  Finally, we are seeing some progress!

Bathroom Tile Project: Day 2 "Unexpected Concrete"

    Day 2 of our bathroom tiling adventure was a rough day.  We started out by going to Lowe's to pick up cement board.  The plan was to lay that over the existing cement and adhere it with some sort of adhesive.  That way we could raise up the floor and have a level surface.  When we got to Lowe's we learned that you can only screw cement board into something.  And that something could not be cement. Womp, womp.  We made some calls and got advice.  Unfortunately that advice was that we would have to mix and pour a concrete floor on top of what we had.

Here is the patch for the sink and the concrete that we poured.  Plus I'm giving you a sneak-peak at what the tile looks like.

After the jump, you can see all the fun (and no-so-fun) details of Day 2.

Bathroom Tile Project: Day 1 "DEMO TIME!"

    On Thursday, my pops arrived in Chicago and we got right down to business tearing up tile.  Here is the before view of the bathroom so we can all remember where we were starting.

    Ugh.  This tile has been the eye sore of our place since day 1.  I have invested far too much time trying different cleaning products in the hope that it will make the tile white and beautiful.  I have scrubbed on my hands and knees with a grout brush, bleach, cleanser, tile products, you name it.  I shudder just looking at this picture.

After the jump you can see the whole demolition process and all of the unexpected things that we found under that nasty tile.

The Bathroom Tile has Been Purchsed!

    Mike and I went to the Tile Outlet yesterday and found a beautifully wonderful tile!  Drumroll please...

   It is 1" White Natural Marble Hexagon Tile.  Isn't it beautiful!  I can't wait to change out our terrible, old tile.   We got 10 boxes of this stuff.  Fifty square feet of beauty.  The tile laying process begins on Thursday.  Stay tuned for more fun.

    In the meantime, here is another view of the tile. (Disregard the subway tile)

Big Project News!

Drum roll, please.  I'm retiling my bathroom floor next week!  I'm so excited!

    My generous, wonderful, crafty, caring father will be coming out to Chicago next week to lead the project and help me learn about how to tile a floor.

Aren't my sister and dad cute?!

    Last year, Mike and I put up a tile backsplash in our kitchen, which you can see here.  It was our first semi-big project that we did together on our house.  Flooring, however, seems much more complicated with the whole "take off the toilet, disconnect your radiator, make the floor level" thing going on.

    Mike and I are going tile shopping tomorrow morning.  I will share all the details with you tomorrow.  Until then, here are some inspiration pictures.  I might not love the whole bathroom, but the tile is the focus of all of these pictures.

I love the pixelated look.  Ooo, and how it goes up the one wall.  I think it's a little complicated for me though.

Oh, how I love hexagon tile!  Don't be shocked if that's what we end up with tomorrow.

I love the herringbone pattern made with simple rectangular tiles.  

Yes, I really love the herringbone.

    You can see some more of my tile inspiration on my Pinterest board  appropriately named Bathroom Tile Inspiration.

What do you think?  Do you have a dream-tile for your bathroom?  Please share!