Now that we have finished decorating the office, Philip and I have decided to move onto the bathroom. Please see this picture for an idea of how absolutely hideous my bathroom is. Especially the orange tile grout. The rest, like the vaguely cute seashells and seahorses, have since been painted over (very badly) in white by my husband's idiotic father who to this day still talks about what a great job he did. (We were on vacation, he was house-sitting, and he'd volunteered to "help" with the decorating.) I don't think I can actually describe the painting job he did... its splotchy and unfinished, its on the ceiling, its on the carpet, its on the fixtures... and its even on top of some of the orange grout because he thought it was a great idea for covering it up. It isn't. Especially considering in the process he got white paint all over the tiles as well. And there's always the fact that the orange still shows through.

Never again am I letting that man near my house. This was not the only thing he did to "help" but I won't go into it, it pisses me off too much.

So anyways... yesterday we managed to regrout about 1/5th of the tiles in the bathroom. This time with grey coloured grout - much nicer. It breaks up the space nicely, unlike if it was white grout with white tiles... then it'd just be white. But anyways, grey grout good. Its going to look great when we're done, apart from the fact that the single row of patterned tiles in the scheme feature orange. Determined to rid the bathroom of the disgusting colour and feeling brave from our success with the grouting itself, we had the brilliant idea of changing out the tiles. So I went out today and bought everything we needed for the job, including shiny new blue glass tiles. Very nice. Very shiny.

However, DIY fucking sucks. None of the DIY books tells you this. For instance, tile removal seems like it should be straight forward enough - you basically chisel apart the offending tiles. However, what no one bothers to tell you is that the force you need to break apart the tiles is also enough to completely shatter the underlying plasterboard.

I now have a hole in my bathroom.

Great.