Sunday, December 28, 2008

Master Bath Update

For our vanity for the master bath we're refurbishing our IKEA kitchen island. I removed the butcherblock top, removed about a foot of width from the middle, and slapped it back together with braces. Reilly is priming and painting it black


It will get the concrete vanity top eventually. Speaking of, I was advised to let the concrete cure in the mold for several more days, so there it still sits for now. Probably Tuesday I can take it out and start polishing. I'll probably have to stain it, too, because it's come out really light gray -- not even close to black.

Anyway, we did have some other progress the last couple of days....tile!!



We think it came out really nice. Our original design was similar, but used 6 rows of 1/2" tiles, instead of 3 rows of 1". Turned out the 1/2" were hard to come by and we didn't want to wait.

We'll get grouted tomorrow (Monday), in a gray color pretty close to the color of the mortar bed (on the left, above).

3 comments:

Unknown said...

got plans for your butcher block top?

Unknown said...

ohhhh, I know somebody (me) that needs a new bathroom floor installed....very similar to this one....need more practice?

Jason said...

We can claim credit for the vanity and wainscoting, but not the tile. Well, design, but not installation. :-)