guest bathroom - after

Happy Friday everyone! The first full work week after the holidays is coming to an end and I am finally starting to ease back into the groove of daily life, here on the blog, at work and at home.

Today I will photos of our guest bathroom as promised on Wednesday, the contrast between the before and after are not as stark as with the powder room because the guest bath looked decent, if you can't see the loose tiles in the tub surround. But as I mentioned before it looked only good on the outside, below the toilet the floor was rotting away because the toilet was not installed properly and must have been leaking since it was installed. Since all the drywall was in good condition we only replaced the area around the tub with cement board and of course the subfloor was replaced as well. We had known from the beginning that we wanted white subway tile and mosaic floor tile, either hexagon or penny rounds. And I don't regret our decision one bit. Really glad we decided on black grout too. The wall color is a warm gray called Amherst Gray from Benjamin Moore's Historical Color collection. We picked the Lillången sink & cabinet from IKEA because of its depth, we didn't have enough space for anything deeper and wanted a solution with storage underneath. For a tub we loved the Cube Collection from Wetstyle but not the price, so I searched the internet for an affordable solution and found one from American Standard at a fraction of the price. We found it at a Lowes in the area and had it delivered but now they don't seem to carry it any longer. Most of the little pieces, like the mirror, towel holder and tub caddy we already owned and when I saw the matching wooden bath mats on a recent IKEA run I had to have them. I like the light birch color with the white of the tile and the gray of the walls. Hope our first guests will like the bathroom as much as we do.

I am looking forward to be able to take a nice long bath in our new tub this weekend, with candle light and a glass of wine...What are your plans this weekend? Hope you will have a great one!

 l wall color benjamin moore amherst gray #HC-167 l in regal select in pearl finish l 

l light fixture lillholmen ikea (already owned) l mirror molger ikea (already owned) similar l 
l urchin target l pharmacy bottles restoration hardware (already owned) l

l sink lillången ikea l faucet dalskär ikea l soap dispenser sävern ikea (already owned) l 

l towel holder molger ikea (already owned) l towels skagern ikea l toilet american standard l

l toilet brush holder sävern ikea (already owned) l trash can sävern ikea (already owned) l

l bathtub american standard (discontinued) l shower head l spout l and controls american standard l wooden bath mats molger ikea l tub caddy molger ikea (already owned) l
l roman shades jc penney (already owned) l