This is Redgard, available by the gallon at Home Depot. It's expensive, but very easy to use and can be tiled directly over. Goes on with a roller or brush, about the same consistency as mayonnaise.
That last image showed Redgard on the shower floor as well. We ended up having to pull that back up (fun!). Apparently it isn't meant for application over fresh concrete and did not stick. Peeling it off in quarter size pieces was a total pain, but it beats having your tiles popping off the floor!
After a little more wall preparation, we were FINALLY ready to tile! We spent a few hours drawing all our guidelines on the walls (we knew exactly how we wanted the tile coursing to lay out) and go to it. We designed the new bath with tile on all four walls to about the 7' line with a bit of trim at the top, so we had a lot of work to do. Luckily it goes pretty quickly, and using a tile saw is therapeutic.
First wall going up. This felt really good.
Tiling around the recessed medicine cabinet and wall hung sink. The sink was a huge pain from start to finish. We had to install the wall clips on the wall perfectly level, because any variation at all would be evident against the straight lines of the tile. We also bought a faucet that wasn't meant to be used on a sink, but rather installed in the wall for a bowl style vessel. It worked, but took forever to design and implement.
Dad tackled the entire floor during our weekdays at work. It looked amazing!
Wall tile nearing completion:
Shower niche and the start of our detail banding:
Temporary shower curtain and rod while our glass was being fabricated:
Installing the last trim band:
This was actually a gamble on our part that paid off. We liked the look of decorative tile banding, but couldn't justify the cost to run the band all the way around the room at around $15 per foot. Instead we sourced some elaborate wood moulding and painted it with color matched paint we had custom made. It looked exactly how we wanted!
Close-up of some of our new chrome bits:
We're very happy with how the sink turned out, however EVERYTHING on it was expensive thanks to our love of exposed chrome hardware.
Little memento in the wall before installing the mirror. You can still see the side-mounted outlet for our toothbrushes in the cabinet:
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Placing the medicine cabinet. Another expensive purchase from Kohler, all because we didn't want one with a beveled mirror:
Getting close...
And our new rain head so we could finally shower in our own home for the first time in months!
Next up: finishing touches and final shots!
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