Clean Showers. Before and After.

Looking back it's kind of embarrassing that we've been showering in this tub for over a year. It's the original cast iron clawfoot tub so we wanted to refinish it, but the task seemed a bit daunting for us to do on our own and I wasn't ready to give up using our one in only bathroom for a couple of days. 

Until we decided we wanted to put new tile in the bathroom, so we'd have to take the tub out and the bathroom would be out of service for a couple of days anyway. 

This is Nic. He stayed with us for the weekend to help us tile the bathroom floor. Which is incredibly nice, but also makes us the absolute worst hosts ever. With only one bathroom, and it not being accesible for 72 hours, it was more like we invited him over to camp. There were a lot of trips to 24hr fitness to shower and Starbucks for potty breaks. I'm not gonna hide the fact that there were some squats popped in the backyard. Obviously, if you look at our tub, you'll know we aren't the classiest crew. 


I read a billion different reviews on different diy tub refinishing kits and settled on the Homax refinishing kit. From all the reviews it seemed the spray was easier to work with than the paint. The woman at lowes seemed a little worried about me and pulled out the instructions and did a play by play with me before I bought it (high five to customer service). I admit, she scared me into thoroughly reading the directions and completing each step. I'm more of a read the instructions after I screw it up type of girl. It was relatively painless, the worst part of the whole project was going to the gym late at night for showers and realizing I forgot my towel. 


Finished tub. 

Scrub a dub dub