The house has two and a half bathrooms.
The master bathroom is 12 x 7. When we moved in, it was divided into two rooms - a sink area and a tub-and-toilet area. The tub didn't have a shower, and there was '70s green carpet in the sink area. Maybe that was great in its day, but now we need an update. Then again, can you really call it an "update" when you're hoping to make the room look more like its age?
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We demolished the wall between the two parts of the room, removed a linen cabinet, bashed out the white tile on the walls and floor ... and the 3-inch-thick layer of concrete underneath. This revealed good-condition painted wood floors. We found beadboard under the drywall, so the drywall came off, too. We also took out the old cabinet and rusted sink.
We repaired some holes and a rotted place behind the toilet in the wood floors and replaces some termitey pieces of beadboard. Then we scraped, puttied and sanded the floors and walls and painted them.
My favorite project was a built-in shelving unit under the window to fill up a space where previous owners had moved the window higher in the wall.
Still left to do:
Replumb for tub and toilet (they're switching places).
Install wall-hung sink.
Replace slant in part of the ceiling.
Paint trim.
Install new lighting and mirror.
Build walk-in closet in the nook outside the bathroom.
Demo big ugly closet in master bedroom.
We've bought some stuff to finish out the room:
Check out more of our bathroom renovation photos on Flickr.
The second full bathroom is located between two of the bedrooms. It was updated/created in the late '60s, so it's tiny and tiled in peach. It has a toilet, cute wall-hung sink, standing shower and a closet with storage all the way up to the 10-foot ceiling, which is handy since neither of the two adjacent bedrooms are equipped with closets. We painted it yellow and accented with green and white. We have plans for a new light fixture over the sink one day, and the trim still needs painting. |
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| The third bathroom is a spacious half bath with a toilet, sink and closet ... not too shabby if you disregard the '70s countertops and green carpet. This room is located where the butler's pantry once was, though it's hard to tell how the room was arranged before. My current plan is to put the Hoosier cabinet in here and replace the sink/cabinet with something a little more butler's pantryish ... if there is such a thing. Notice, we've already ditched the '70s curtains and carpet. We plan to restore the wood floor that's underneath this plywood. |
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