New tile for our bathroom!

I'm so so so excited. For as long as L has owned his house, he has been living with some seriously ugly tile in his bathroom. Not only are the tiles ugly, they are very strange - they are 6"x6" plastic grey/marbled tiles, something I've never seen anywhere else. The grey tiles are the overall field tile, and then - to make things worse - the bathroom is finished with BLACK accent tiles at the top. Gag. Lately, they have begun popping off the walls, since I suppose the moisture from the shower has been causing their thin-set to deteriorate. Assuming the tiles are original to the house (built in 1941), this totally makes sense.

He has always wanted to replace all the tile, but never had the time or the money to invest in it. Now that I've moved in, we'd made some serious headway on the bathroom. We (he, mostly, while I cleaned the house) spent all of Saturday chipping away at these ugly tiles, and after a lot of cursing and swearing, L successfully removed the toilet in order to get the rest of the tiles off the wall (and then reinstalled it when I couldn't hold it any longer).

And look what we're replacing it with! We've decided to cover the entire vanity wall with a lovely mosaic tile. It's a mixture of glass and stone, and it is truly breathtaking. This is one advantage of working at an architectural firm. Me + new cool products + designer discount = one happy couple.


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I'll be sure to post pictures of our (soon-to-be) finished bathroom!