Moody Monday - 1st Floor Bath

Mood board novice here. I have LITERALLY (imagine Chris Traeger saying this) no experience putting something like this together. I typically fly by the seat of my pants for projects around the house, but this one is different.

This project requires planning, demolition, skill and a crapton of money.

We’re planning a complete renovation of our hideous first floor bathroom in the next few weeks. This is the only full bath in the house, meaning we’ll be showerless for awhile. In order to (I hope!) minimize the amount of time we spend showering at various relatives’ houses, we actually sat down and planned this one out.

I’m a simple girl. That’s why there are a mere five things on my mood board. We have the big stuff planned though. In the shower, we’ll go with traditional white subway tile. Although we’re on the fence when it comes to grout color, I’m leaning toward something in the grey or brown family. We aren’t doing any accent tile, so I think colored grout will really pop.

We’ll replace the crazy colored tile floor with ceramic tiles that resemble wood planks. The rest of our first floor is hardwood and this should tie in nicely. A soft, muted green should look nice with this and white trim.

Although the vanity in the bathroom now is only a few years old, it’s not really our preferred style. This white vanity from Ikea is closer to our style, and we’ll top it with an interesting mirror. This one is from Target and if the measurements are right (gotta check that!) I think we’ll go with it.

I have ideas for a few of the other details – a white waffle-weave shower curtain, wood plank shelves over the toilet, and maybe even removing the linen closet door to open up the space more.

We took a tiling workshop at Home Depot last weekend. I’m still stymied by the notion of a wet saw (the blade is in water? does that mean that the tile gets wet when you cut it? does that impact how the thinset works? did I use the term thinset correctly?) but the workshop was moderately helpful. I think we'll keep the name and number of a handyman close by though once we start the project... just in case!