Plans are made for changing

Well, after making the plans to remodel the master bathroom as our next major project, we did what any self respecting do-it-yourselfer would do and changed them at the last minute. We are now remodeling the Jack and Jill bathroom linking our kids bedrooms. We made that decision primarily because I simply cannot live without a shower. If I cut the old fiberglass shower out of the master bathroom, I'll have to draw a bath before work every morning, hardly practicle. Since the Jack and Jill bath is not in terrible shape, adding a shower extension and ring to the clawfoot tub in that bathroom seemed like a more logical solution for creating a shower than the complete overhaul required in the master bathroom. I had replaced the water damage floor in the Jack and Jill bath over the summer. No problem right? I thought I would be in for a simple project, adding a shower extension tube to the fixture in the tub and installing a shower curtain ring. Nothing to it...Wrong. The project seems to have morphed into much more than I had originally conceived. We are now relocating the sink, completly re-tiling the entire bathroom, adding a linen closet, installing new fixtures (the old ones didn't match the new shower hardware) and installing recessed lighting. We went by Lowes and purchased the material for the project over the weekend. We went ahead and bought the floor tiles, grout, and thinset, but we didn't pick up the backerboard because we didn't have the van at that time, which is clearly indicative of an impulse buy, and one beyond my span of control. So, even though we didn't actually start the project, we have nearly all of the material required to do so piled up in the living room, which is a great motivator in and of itself. Take a look at this wonderful tile here...