Keep in mind that this is after the bathroom had been completely abandoned for a few months.. so it’s a disaster!

But I was not entirely thrilled about the idea of having no pictures.Everything I had written up to that point had been done with the idea that there would be big, beautiful photos to inspire you and make you feel like “Yes!

I can do this cleaning thing!”, and maybe even some fun illustrations thrown in for good measure.This idea also came at a time when they had just suggested a title for the book that I wasn’t particularly excited about either, so I wasn’t really the happiest of campers.I kind of, almost, sorta just felt like giving up on the whole thing and that’s just not something I would normally do, like, ever..

So we decided to get on another phone call and talk the whole thing out like civilized people instead of emailing politely back and forth while I secretly had a mini panic attack every five minutes thinking about this whole thing.I was actually looking forward to the call.

I was thinking that surely they must have some kind of amazingly brilliant explanation for why we shouldn’t make my book beautiful and photo-filled, and as soon as I heard it, I would completely understand.

But of course, that was not the case.I also got pretty excited about the whole marble thing and decided that the whole wall behind the vanity would be amazing if we did a marble mosaic in a herringbone pattern.

Well, that sounds easy enough until you get to the edges and realize that you need to figure out a way to cut each individual teeny tiny tile into a little mini 1/4 inch triangle with the tile saw.I’m just lucky that Chris specializes in ridiculously meticulous tasks like that!… and about 20 straight work hours later, we had a tiled wall!.

The floors were also a bit of a finicky tile because of their giant size.We sure know how to pick ’em!