Bathroom redo #3

Next up: the floor. I had been itching to pull up this floor for at least 6 years. But, something else always made the top of the list. The existing floor is what I would call The Least Ugly of the Ugly choices in linoleum ever.

When we were building our house, we had choices for flooring, lighting, paint, fixtures, cabinets and counters that were considered "standard". Those standard choices did not add to the cost of the house. However, most of the time, they weren't usually choices I would make. Sometimes there were only 2 ugly choices: would you like the single white bare bulb fixture or the cream colored single bulb bare fixture?Being on a budget, we upgraded very few things (taller cabinets, breakfast bar, bay windows, vaulted ceilings, atrium stairs). We opted to upgrade only the things that would be very expensive or impossible to upgrade ourselves later.

Anyway, this flooring was the least ugly of the ugly choices. I never loved it (it has PINK in it), but I knew I had to live with until we could afford to fix it AND I knew what I wanted to replace it with.

Last year at Thanksgiving, I found some replacement tile at a good price. We bought it immediately and then it has sat in our room in the corner. For over a year. Just waiting for is to have time/energy to installing it. Finally! The time is now!

The downside is John and I spent 2 hours ripping out the old linoleum by hand and then scraping up the chunks of backing paper stuck behind. Not my favorite job by far and I have the blisters to show for it.