Video: My affordable beige tile bathroom. Yes. Beige.

So I had the bathroom clean… I put on makeup… The good camera was all set up on the big tripod… and DH was on the scene to help me shoot this video all about my bathroom renovation — completed with affordable beige ceramic tile from Home Depot. Then, the camera froze up, and we couldn’t get it back on. So I grabbed my little Canon that also shoots video — and, well, the show must go on.

Which is to say: This isn’t my greatest video, but, if I didn’t do it then, I was never gonna do it.

In this first of three segments — all about the renovation of my small, 1951 master bathroom — I talk about why I chose beige 4″x4″ field tiles, with white bullnose.

Beige ceramic 4″ x 4″ tile:

• A totally accessible color if tile — available immediately and inexpensively from Home Depot, Lowes and other big box stores…
• An everlasting gobstopper timeless tile color — as is light grey, but I’ve never seen that color stocked on the shelf at Home Depot…
• And it’s super easy to punch up with color via wallpaper or a patterned shower curtain and then, with towels.

Yes, I installed a beige bathroom.

Oh, and this is embarrassing: I swear I cleaned the bathroom. But, the yellow cast of light is making the floor grout look pukier than it really appears in real life. And, crikey, I need to figure out how to really clean the non-skid surface of the Kohler tub, which turned that kind of bottom-of-your-feet color within a month of installation and which I’ve never been able to get white again. Anyone? Bueller?

Two more Beige Bathroom videos to come:

• My Beige Bathroom: Features I Like
• My Beige Bathroom: Things I’d Do Differently

Want to see my other bathroom design videos — including the one that went viral, Things I’d Do Differently — click here.