New Bathroom!!

We recently renovated our bathroom. We did some of the work but we didn't try and handle the hard core plumbing of the job. I'm not a skilled craftsman by a long shot so we hired some help for that. However, we did some of the work and we did all of the painting. I'll take you through what we did.


The first thing that we did was take down the molding in the bathroom. Does a bathroom need molding around the middle of it? No, Elizabeth didn't think so and she took it off. She is responsible for the majority of the work in the bathroom as I was more of an assistant. So, the "we" could really be Elizabeth 90%; Ben 10%. I had a ton of school work this summer so I was doing that a lot of the time. When she took the molding down she had to put joint compound in it's place.

As you can see, we have a little bathroom but it works. We also took out both medicine cabinets that we had. There is some new drywall up there on the left of the second picture. Elizabeth and Ryan put that in place.


After that was complete, we decided to paint the bathroom before the plumber came in to install everything. Here is the primed bathroom.

We then painted the ceiling and the walls. We had some issues with the paints that we bought from Lowe's not showing up right so Elizabeth decided to do a faux finish. We have one of those downstairs in that bathroom. I think that one is very cool so I pushed for it. Elizabeth was concerned that the next people buying this house would not like it but we had no real choice since the paint did not turn out. It also helped to hide some joint compound issues. Here she is making some touch ups.





We then had the plumbers and then a handyman come in and complete the work. One of the coolest things is the seat on the toilet. It does not slam. It goes down extremely slowly. It's very cool. It's right there with tissues as the coolest things in the house that don't require batteries or power to work. Here is the finished product.

Next Week . . . A NEW CAR!