bathroom remodel day 2

so on day 2 we ripped up the existing floor.  that was not fun.  i'm not entirely sure what kind of tile was on the floor, it was some sort of vinyl tile but it had a rigid backing that was almost the consistency of grout and that was attached to a piece of plywood with adhesive and then stapled to the subfloor.  when i was researching how to demo a  bathroom, i saw tutorials on how to remove a vinyl tile and ceramic tile, but not this weird tile.  with ceramic tile, you just use a hammer and chisel or sledgehammer to break it and chisel the tile out, but with the tile we had on our floor, the grout-like stuff that it was made out of was flexible enough that it didn't chip away when we chiseled it, so it was only coming off one small square at a time, like a square inch at a time, and because they were adhered to plywood, the plywood was splitting in half with the tile, so i was basically chiseling the plywood sheet in half for the first row of tile.  soooooooooo frustrating.  it took me almost an hour to chip 2 tiles off (the tiles were big though). but then i noticed that the plywood was stapled into the subfloor and i could pull it up.  since hubby is stronger, he was able to rip off that strip of plywood and then he loosened up the tile on the second row and ripped the plywood up, tile and all.  then i went in and did the third and last sections, and we were done!  wooohooo!  i was thinking this part would take a week, and it probably would have if we had to chip the tile off of the plywood and then remove the plywood from the subfloor, but we got lucky and were able to just rip it all up, and it took about 2.5 hours.  then we cleaned all the debris up, and vacuumed and i went through and did some drywall patching.  so here is what all that looked like:

before

so yellow

the tile that we ripped up, kind of a cream and taupe color, not bad but not in line with my vision for this bathroom

the hole left in the wall after took out the medicine cabinet

towel holder

towel bar, its all gotta go!

trying to chisel the tile off, see the plywood splintering?

halfway through removing the floor

big chunks of the floor removed

after doing some drywall repair

originally i wanted to covert the space where the medicine cabinet was to some recessed shelving, but because those electrical cords are there, we just decided to forget it and patch it up.  so now we are working on repairing the hole where the medicine cabinet was, removing some rogue screws left over from the vanity that we couldn't unscrew, repairing those holes, sanding smooth, and then painting.  ok, off to get some more stuff done. 

Oh and here is me starting the floor removal. Good times.