Nope, I didn't finish the bathroom this weekend like I'd thought! I'm tired of it! I never want to see tile again!! I might actually be afraid to enter the bathroom once it is complete… if ever!
Besides taking forever, it is actually coming along quite nicely and I have some pictures for you to view. I also installed a version of Lightbox Lightbox instructions:
- You can navigate using your mouse, hover over the left or right side click close or grayed out area to close.
- You can use the arrow keys to navigate through pictures, Esc. to close. to make the picture viewing more enjoyable.
Just to take you back, Jen and I got our inspiration for this project when we were in Italy. We stayed at a hotel that had a completely tiled bathroom, with a waterfall tub, rain shower and LED light design in the ceiling, so we decided to design a bathroom that would incorporate some (or all) of these into our own bathroom. We designed it to have the rain shower, regular shower, waterfall bath filler and a fiber optic star field ceiling.
Inspiration in Italy
Master Plans 1A
Master Plans 1B
We framed and waterproofed the floor, shower and tub area.
Schlutering
me working (or posing)
Shower waterproofed
We picked some tile we liked and dry fitted it before sticking it down.
Tile that caught our eye
dry fitting shower
dry fitting floor
Removed the cabinets
Removed the cabinets
We decided to remove the Cabinet and tile under it incase we decide to change out the counter later down the road (which is part of the master plan).
Next we stuck the dry fitted tile down with mortar then cut some more and stuck them down as well. This is a long process when you only work at it evenings and weekends and have a cheap Princess Auto wet saw that only cost $50 and sprays water everywhere when you use it.
The floor dirty from mortar.
Shower and tub partially complete
Dry fitting more tiles around the tub
Shower and tub almost complete
Putting the tile edging up on the shower
Tile edging and more tile around the tub
And this is were I'm at today. The tub side is grouted and the fixers are on. this is what the waterfall tub filler looks like while filling the tub.
I didn't have the magnetic access hatch for the bottom of the tub on that is why the picture is cut off an on an angle.
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First off i ended up buying the Lumix DMC-ZS3 camera! I finally was on sale so i went and bought it. I haven’t had a whole lot of time to play with it but have discovered a few things about it. The battery life really does suck, and so far I am a little disappointed with the amount of noise in the pictures that it takes. The LCD is crystal clear which may be one reason why I am noticing the noise. The camera is made in Japan rather than China, it feels well built (but time will tell). It takes pretty impressive video for a camera. 
Now about the tub. I purchased the Maax Urban 32″ tub over a year ago and finally tried it out. It is loud! I’ll have to accommodate some sort of sound dampening into my tub surround design. Other than that it warms up your back and blows air bubbles, that’s about it. It looks nice and I’m glad it works, that’s all that really counts. 