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Basement reno progress.

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Yesterday was a good day.
The tile guys finished grouting!
Woot! Woot!
I was downstairs dancing a happy dance on the tile all night.
Seriously better than a trip to Disneyland!

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How awesome is this tile?!
Tile manufacturers have made huge strides in the world of faux wood ceramic tile.
We put ceramic wood tile in two other parts our home a couple years ago and it looks like tile that is trying to chameleon itself in to wood.
In other words, you can tell it ain’t wood.
This ceramic wood oak tile from the Tile Shop will fool you.  It really looks like wood.

Now you’re probably asking why we just didn’t put in real wood if I was so dead set on going for a wood floor look.
I’ve got a little basement-flooding-phobia.
It’s been said, “Not if, but when…” in regards to your basement flooding (yeah, that sucks),
plus I’ve known too many people who have had this catastrophe happen to them so ix-nay on the ood-way (pig-latin for NO WOOD!).

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I have had a serious crush on this framed inset medicine cabinet from Restoration Hardware FOREVER.
It’s in baby!
And it’s a darn good thing too. This will be the only source of bathroom storage in the whole bathroom.
I’m doing something a little different for the vanity (if my miracle wood worker can pull it off)!

This white herringbone tile was sort of a happy accident.
You see, I bought a different tile a while back for the shower niche that was AWESOME…or so I thought.
When we put it in it didn’t look right, it didn’t fit right, it didn’t smell right…it just wasn’t right.
Now what?
I could have gone out shopping again, then wait for shipping, the re-schedule the tilers…this had snafu written all over it.
We had some subway tile left over so I told the tiler to cut each tile  in half length-wise then cut the ends at an angle.

We laid it out on the floor and three tile guys all said they didn’t like it and tried to talk me out of it. I told them I LOVED IT and put it up.
They changed their mind after they saw it installed.

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Next up, lighting, painting, shelving, and plumbing. Stay tuned!

Comments

  1. LOVE LOVE love it! Love the herringbone too… who wouldn’t love it! Great decision when the other tile didn’t work out! I don’t think I could put ‘real’ wood or carpeting in a basement as I have a phobia of flooding as well. My basement currently has the concrete stained and it looks pretty cool. Have you seen vinyl wood planks before? Those are starting to look a lot better and good use for basements too.

    • If we didn’t do tile then stained concrete would have been my next choice. I LOVE the look of it! I have to check out vinyl wood and see what improvements have been made there. Thanks for your comment Lauren!

  5. Love it. I,m doing something very similar in our basement bathroom. Can you tell me what color that grout is and the brand? How wide are the grout lines? You’ve done a bang up job with the tile!

  10. I love it! That herringbone tile is AWESOME. Have to tell you though– it’s SNAFU… military slang term. Situation normal: all “fouled” up. 😉

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