We still had the original hardwood floor in the downstairs half bath.  It doesn't make sense to put any kind of hardwood in a bathroom.  It might look good at the beginning but after 20 years it did not at all.  We finally bought the trim for the house and the bathroom needed new trim because it was going to need new flooring.  Scope creep strikes again.  So I took a trip to the hardware store.  I had been eying small mosaic hexagon tiles anyway.  Another month went by and I finally figured out what I wanted in the bathroom.  So we purchased many boxes of 1 ft by 1 ft hexagon mosaic mesh tiles  (more than we needed or so we thought). Purchased our cement board for the underlayment, mortar, trowel, and grout.  I had scoured Pinterest for the best grout color and found this hilarious blog about it.  We did try out their suggestion about a trial for the grout I had picked. I used both Maria Killman and Young House Love's recommendation for the color. We removed the toilet and it sat in my dining room for a month. The pedestal sink moved from breakfast nook, to dining room to living room depending on what we were doing.  We repaired part of the wall that was crumbling, removed all the hardware on the walls including the light for a bit, the door that leaned against my couch in the living room and started work on this very small bathroom. John repaired the wall, painted the ceiling and I painted the wall. I had removed the glued on oval mirror so that I could paint.  Since we weren't sure about actually putting in the tile and we thought that we would do the prep work and then hire someone to do the actual tile work.  With plenty of encouragement from people and a borrowed wet tile saw we went to work.  Very slowly.  We laid it out to see what was going to be needed to cut.  We cut and laid it out again trying to make sure the grout lines would be spaced evenly apart with the mesh.  We clipped around the toilet drain.  We really meaning John.  I watched and encouraged and asked questions.  Finally we used the mortar and permanently placed the tile on the floor.  We let it dry and then after deciding on warm grey grout, bought more bags. Mixing it up we just went for it.  Turns out we didn't need as much as we thought but ok.  We will have it for the next project.  Yes, we are already talking about the next project.  Just aren't sure what that project is. I then sealed the grout.  Wait for another 24 hours for the sealent to cure.  Finally we could install the toilet and get that out of my dining room.  Try having a diner with people when you have a toilet in the room.  Uncomfortable.  Anyhow, we then realized we needed more parts for the toilet.  Because the floor was a little thicker than before we needed an extender or some such thing.  Two more trips to the hardware store and the toilet was installed.  Next we tried out the pedestal sink.  We hooked it up but the sink wasn't in the spot for it to look right with the picture frame moulding I put up.  So a trip to the hardware store to find out they didn't have the part.  Amazon to the rescue and we wait.  The baseboard trim had been painted and we installed it along one wall.  Finally the part for the sink came.  We hooked it up only to find out that the seals on the handles were leaking and so the pedestal sink came back out and more parts were searched for and finally ordered.  Meanwhile I kept working on the picture moulding.  There were lessons to be learned about that as well.  The moulding done, the sink in we were able to put in the rest of the baseboards and call this room finished.  Except that I still needed to buy a mirror but that eventually happened too.  This was all done so we could baseboard trim in the rest of the downstairs.  And yet that has another story to it as well.