Bathroom Renovation

This project was a big one. Too big to do it ourselves, so we hired out the work on this project. We designed the layout and picked everything out, and that was probably work enough alone!

If you can't remember what the bathroom looked like, stroll down memory lane here. The new bathroom layout called for giving up 18" of space of office space by moving the wall back, which allowed us to build a separate shower stall. On the opposite wall, the bedroom had a few feet of underutilized space plus there was a few more square feet adjacent to that that was walled off, completely unused so we added that to the bathroom too. All in our bathroom went from about 72 square feet to over 100, and it feels even more spacious.

Early stage pics:

In this one you can see where the old wall was by the strip on the ceiling, along with the new wall set back from there. Perpendicular to that you can also make out the small wall that formed one side of the bathtub/shower alcove.

Here is one of the door to the bathroom, without and later with some semblance of a floor and wall.

And this corner is where the shower stall will go.

Speak of the devil, looks like that shower stall is all framed out!
Somewhere in the middle of the project:

Subfloor in, wallboard up and taped. Guest appearance by our vanity!

...And the floor tiles are installed. We used regular white marble tiles for the majority of the floor, but for a nice bonus we bought basketweave tile and installed them in the center of the floor in a 4'x6' pattern, bordered with small (3/4") black marble tiles. Nice.

Back to the shower stall. We used standard issue American Standard/American Olean white tiles from the big box home improvement store for the bulk of the stall, accented with some nice tile from our fancy tile store.

Stall in progress:

Close up of the built-in nook.
Close up of the accent tiles

Next up was the beadboard and the counter tops. We went with white marble counter tops, and had that same marble cut for atop the knee wall on the shower and for above the curb below the shower door.

Finished goods:

First lets get to the shower stall, complete with glass door and side panel:

Double vanity was seen earlier, but here it is in all its glory, with his and hers medicine cabinets along with three shiny bath sconce lights.

For all of the talk of the shower stall, you might have wondered about the bath. Yep, we have one of those too. Here it is, near the window which got a new set of blinds to keep it all private.

A bathroom wouldn't be a bathroom without a toilet, and sure enough we have one of those too. We placed this on the opposite wall from the vanity. Most of this space was reclaimed from the adjacent bedroom.

Hope you enjoyed our bath. Now the work continues inside and outside of the house!