Master Bath Progress report

Just a quick master bath progress update. The lovely avacado green tile came off remarkably easily in most places. It was a bit terrifying. We confirmed what we'd suspected before - that we have a real professional layered "mud" surface on all of our walls which is ideal for laying the new tile. Unfortunately, in the bath, they'd had some water damage that they "fixed" by putting drywall in as a patch and then a vinyl tub surround. We went in and ripped out all the drywall and were again surprised to see the outside of the old house (the fake brick siding that was on some point in the distant past). Our bedroom was an addition and it buts up against the outside of the original house. We assumed that would be water barrier enough and patched the large holes with concrete backer board. We then used some thinset to fill in the gaps and some of the areas where the old tile was stubborn coming off. Here's a view of the bathroom at current.

The tile we're using in the bath (floor and walls) is a creme color with rough edges. We are capping the top with some small slate tiles. Megan also came up with the idea of doing something fun on the back wall of the shower. We'll again use the slate to set it off and some smaller tiles to fill the interior on the diagonal with a central square of the slate again. My current attempt at a design, obviously not centered (see the masking tape on the floor laying out the back wall) can be seen below.

Sorry for the bad lighting, but that was a rush take before Calvin ran in to play with all of the spacers. :-) The slate is really much prettier than it shows in this picture.