Chuffed that my bathroom renovation is mostly over
Well I didn't have to ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- in a bucket, but it did suck not having a main bathroom for several weeks...
I am nearly done as well with my bathroom reno and pretty happy about it. Just waiting on the vanity which will be another week. I decided not to build the vanity a few weeks back and contacted a friend who sells cabinets and he got me a nice custom vanity for cost. Even at cost though, the stone top will be the most expensive item in the room, and the top and vanity combined is nearly double the cost of the entire rest of the bathroom figuring in every fixture, screw, nail, and pipe fitting. But I just didn't want to take a chance at doing a super dark stain on hardwood and end up with less than perfect results. Usually you have to dye the wood first to get super dark and not splotchy, and I am just not set up for using dyes in my shop, so rather than use up $250 in cherry wood and then ruin it trying to stain it a dark coffee color, I bit the bullet and ordered it up. Then once I was in for the custom cabinet, I wasn't going to make a laminated countertop, so I opted for stone, which around here starts at $100 per sq foot...
Here is where I started: a 1966 bathroom with a really bad 80's reno. That's an old steamer shower without the steamer part, the original 1966 valves, and to top it all off, commercial white fiberglass waterproofing panels on the walls.
This bathroom was my eyesore for the last 16 years, but with 5 people in the house it was always last on the priority list. The 3 layers of flooring had rotted out around the toilet and after 3 attempts to re-seat the toilet that would eventually unseal and flood in my basement several months later, I finally got pissed enough to gut the bathroom to the studs... With the exception of 10 minutes to move the tub into the bathroom, I did the whole thing solo, which sucked sometimes but hey, it's rewarding, right?
And the nearly finished results:
The last pic was taken about 5 minutes after finishing the grout, so it is a little dirty but the best "after" pic I have right now...
The vanity will be a dark coffee color, not black but a very rich brown. The top is going to be a fairly sanitary white with a white undermount sink.. The contrast pops between the porcelain white fixtures and vanity top and the charcoal tile and light gray walls really came out great. I am excited to get the last few pieces in place and call it done.. after which I will be starting on putting new windows in the upstairs rooms, after I strip the rooms down to bare walls, patch and retexture, prime, paint, new trim, and new carpet.. Aside from the kitchen floor, that will be the last project before the entire house has been renovated (since I bought it in 2000). AND, that will mark the start of re-renovating the basement, lol...
Somewhere in there I need to write another novel and maybe even get around to building a sit down cab for racing sims... I have a busy year planned..
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