Cured and Covered

Never fails.  Just as the beauty of the concrete is fully blooming, someone comes along and covers it with something else.  In the case of the bathroom, we ended up with squares of mud cooked at high temperature, also known as ceramic tiles.

The walls surrounding the tub went from this:

to This:

We even got some decorative trim and matching backsplash behind the faucets:

The floor also got covered with tiles:

And while nothing in construction can ever be considered speedy, the progress has at least been steady, if not brisk, none of which I really care about since the entire object of the exercise appears to be to cover the concrete.