The Bathroom Project

Here are the pictures of the bathroom renovation over at my sister’s.

The room is very small. If you stand in the center of the room, you can touch most of the walls and you don’t need freakishly long arms to do it. Now the room seems more spacious.

The paint on the top half of the wall is called Restful and the lower half of the wall is Bright White. My sister’s friend painted the room and did a great job.

My sister had a good idea to get some storage space without using any more space in the room. She thought there must be some way to put a cabinet into the crawl space that runs along the back of her house between the master bedroom and the upstairs bath.

The better-half built a cabinet:

My brother-in-law thought of the idea to use towel hooks instead of towel rods to free up space:

When we took the old sink and cabinet to the landfill, the cabinet popped like a balloon as it hit the ground. This new sink won’t be going to the dump anytime soon:

The beadboard you can see in all the pictures is also new. Nearly everything in the room is new except the tub/shower.

My sister and I went to the Home Depot on Christmas Eve and bought some supplies. The glass shelf box was devoid of brackets (thanks Home Depot). We took that back the other day and got a complete shelf/bracket box and now the shelf provides storage space without looking too heavy:

The toilet is one of those ADA models because my sister occasionally has back problems and it is easier to sit higher. The cool part of this toilet is how fast and efficiently it moves the contents out of the bowl. That toilet doesn’t mess around.

We had to pull out the drywall on one wall because it wasn’t the right size to match all the other walls and it didn’t actually go all the way to the floor in one spot (the original, crazy jack-legged things done in this bathroom boggles the mind). My sister’s family had been looking at 2X4 studs for 9 years. When we ripped out the half-done drywall, we had to replace the door so all the trim would match up. My sister and I couldn’t find a threshold that would work so we spray painted the old one to make it match the nickel finish selected for the other hardware bits in the room. Here’s a shot of the new floor: