It's about time I blogged about the renovations and shown you what it looks like now!
The whole entire aim of the exercise was to fix the flooring (which was so badly tiled), and to get more light into the house.
Think white… very white… with some grey.
The bathrooms downstairs were in sore need of an upgrade. Although the previous owners of the house had retiled before we moved in, the fittings were absolutely ancient. When we got the quote from Peter (our builder), he also said that our water pipes were galvanised steel, and not copper… which meant 2 things… that we couldn't get mixers and that at some stage we would have to replace them because the pipes start closing and they'd virtually reached the end of their lives. So, that meant more cost because all the pipes needed to be replaced with copper and chased into the walls again… but that also meant that we could get the types of taps we really wanted!
1. Removed the existing tiles, all the fittings (apart from the bath that we'd re-enamelled 2 years ago) and the wall around the shower.
3. Re-tiled the walls using my favourite white subway tiles (which was a much more expensive exercise than we bargained on, we needed 30sqm).
4. Re-tiled the showers with a hint of blue… using gorgeous tiles meant for swimming pools! Hey, it works, don't knock it… and it reminds us of a waterfall going into a pool at the bottom 😉 . These tiles were from the strangest tile place in Roodepoort. It's a house on Ontdekkers called Latitude Tile. They had the widest range we came across in our extensive travels, and apart from the subway tiles, were far far cheaper than anyone else we found.
For some reason I didn't take photos of the bathrooms before the renovations… but they were beige with old huge toilets and dark brown beams on the ceilings. The only photo that kind of shows you something, is the one down the passage. The beige tiled wall at the end is the shower wall. You can kind of see how dark the house was before… drove me batty!!
The guest bathroom is absolutely tiny… so we stuck with the white subway tiles again. You can see the wooden ceiling beams that we painted in the second photo.
What a difference !!! Fabulous !!
WOW that is so awesome Jeanette! Totally worth it!
It looks absolutely amazing Jenty! Time and money well spent I think!