Climbing Mount Conception: Bathroom Renovation

So, when we bought this place about 3 years ago, our first priority was the kitchen. It was a freakin disaster. It was in the kind of shape that I imagine Mama Texas-Chainsaw- Massacre's kitchen was in. Not in the streaked- with-the-blood-of- innocents kind of disaster, just really badly maintained. I mean, she couldn't keep an immaculate modern appointed kitchen when she was busy helping her homicidal family kill the oversexed teenagers that wandered in their vicinity. Her priorities were skewed, if you ask me. At any rate, the kitchen took almost a year to finish completely. And to be honest, there is still some finishing that needs to be done. But, I have curtains up in there, decorative crap on top of the shelves, under-cabinet lighting, its not bad.
What you see here is the after, but I think (I hope) you already knew that. For my first home renovation, I am pretty darned happy with the way that it all turned out. And, for anyone thats ever wondered what the f*cking point of a blog is, well, it just got me to clean up my kitchen. It had to be clean for the after shots. So, Kitchen is done-ish. We've moved on to the bathroom now, in case you'd forgotten since we moved passed the title of this post.

After we did the kitchen, I told myself that any more majo renos would be done by a contractor. But, here we are 2 years and a bit later, and we are tackling the bathroom. Our original plan was to rip it all out to the studs and start over. Since we've decided to move though, we've scaled back the plan. We have a hideous mauve sink and tub. We can't really easily replace the tub, so we are going to have to drop what I think is way too much money to get bathfitters in here to cover it. Once that's done though, it really won't be that tough to do the rest. We've already taken out the toilet and the vanity. Rich is, at this very moment, sanding the walls and readying them for plastering. We have to cover them with drywall compound so they can be smooth again. They were covered in tiles. We only left tiles around the tub. They are a weird oyster color, so I won't find anything to match them, but I think I have worked out a new color scheme that should work. More on that later. Gotta love the mauve eh? The wall paper used to be a busy flowered pattern of mauve flowers on a white background. The ceiling was papered. Why... So, this is the before. And I'll be sure to post the Afters Later.