My husband and I finally made a few decisions after not making any for the first 12 years we’ve lived in our 70s split level:

1. The bathroom would be our first project.
2. We chose the tile for the backsplash and flooring from Home Depot and Lowe’s so we were limited in our choices, but we liked what we chose.
3. This is absolutely a budget makeover so we went with what would make the biggest impact.
4. My husband did 98% of the work and he did a great job.
5. But I don’t like the tile or the floor.

Every time I walk into our lone bathroom, it reminds me of a castle dungeon. It’s dark. I feel depressed in there. I wanted a lighter teal or aqua backsplash, but neither of the big box stores had what we wanted and we had to decide. I think that would have worked better with our charcoal floor. See our work in progress.

Any suggestions on how to make lemonade out of this lemon? Speaking of lemons, we took down the yellow tile and light colored vinyl sheet flooring and I miss it now even though I hated it. ☹️