New Bathroom

After 2 years of on and off construction I have finally completed my last major room overhaul – the upstairs bathroom. Other than the kitchen, this room required more TLC than any room in the house. Knowing that I would never want to use that bathroom ‘as-is’, it was decided to almost completely rebuild. It took a long time because A) I had another bathroom downstairs that worked and was somewhat clean, B) I am fairly busy and have plenty of other projects and C) apparently bathroom overhauls are expensive. Last night I made the finishing touches and today I got ready in this bathroom for the first time!

In October of 2006 with the help of Fatt Matt I started by tearing out the nasty sink, toilet, and medicine cabinet. I contemplated busting out the old tub, which was covered in decades of filth, but instead opted to have it refinished – which was a great decision.

I attempted to remove the existing light blue floor tile, but the tiles were about a 1/2″ thick and even using all kinds of tools and wreckless force, I couldn’t get them out. So I decided to tile over them. One of these days someone will decide my small white tiles are ugly as sin and tear them out to find the old, 1950s era tiles underneath and think they have struck gold.

I couldn’t find a medicine cabinet to fit the hole left by the old cabinet so I decided to build a new custom one myself out of scrap wood i found in the dumpster at work. I am probably more proud of the medicine cabinet than anything else in the bathroom!

And here we have the finished product!

Although this was the last major room remodel I had on my list of things to do… as with any home it will never be “done”.