Baby Steps

Bathroom tiling has begun! It's been mostly prep work so far because we're still waiting on floor tile to arrive, but they began tiling the walls above the bathtub, and wow! We couldn't be happier. I love the transition from the pretty white tub to the clean white tile on the walls. It's just a hint of what we're working toward, but we love the look so far. I've looked at so many hundreds of subway tile bathrooms over the past two years that this feels pretty surreal. I honestly have to remind myself that this is ours, and that our dream bath is finally underway.

We've had the the tile installers keep nice, tight joints between each tile so the grout lines will be minimal. We're going to have them do very light grey grout, so it actually won't look too different in color than the gaps do now - just a bit lighter.

Once the floor tile does arrive (come on, Home Depot!) it sounds like progress should move pretty quickly. Our bathroom is pretty small, and while we're using tile a ton (on the floor and walls, all the way to the ceiling around the tub, and 4 feet everywhere else) it still isn't a huge amount of surface area. We hope to be using this bathroom for showering (and bathing - YAY!) in the next week or so, which will be a tremendous relief as our creepy basement shower leaves much to be desired.

We're scheduled for a BIG delivery tomorrow. I won't tell you what it is, but this post should give a pretty unmissable hint.