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posted November 28, 2003 05:43 AM
New Bathroom/Laundrey room progress pics
Well, it has been quite a journey, plumbing, framing, electrical, drywall, new doors. Some stuff I've never done before but know now. We had one room that comprised of our laundrey room and a hole in the floor for a toilet. In our sub the homes like ours, I was told, were built with the option of an additional bathroom in this room. Appearantly the people who built our home did not choose that option in 1974 but the hole is there. So I wanted a toilet here and even though I've wanted it since I bought the house in 2000, I'm just getting getting to it.
So here is a pic of the laundrey side after I cut out the drywall for the new doorway which will enter the laundrey room from a different place than before.
Here is a pic of part of the bathroom side after I began the framing for the new wall. You can also see the new copper pipes/water supply lines I installed for the toilet and the new vanity.
This is a pic of the new door in the new entrance to the laundrey room. I just bought a solid pine prehung door from HD. It was unfinished so I stained it and poly'd it. I thought it came out pretty good.
This is a pic of the new wall in the laundrey room. I insulated the wall and was going to drywall in here but decided cause it's just a laundrey room to use hardboard for the walls and paint them and use trim. The washer and dryer on on the left and the furnace and hot water tank on the right. My wife picked out this color and I am still not sure how I feel about it but she likes it.
Now this is the new bathroom. I still have to cut in the paint between the ceiling and the walls, which I painted yesterday but I am now thinking about maybe using crown moulding, not sure yet. You can see there is a funky round spot on the drywall, that was from when I drywalled this wall two years ago, this whole room was just open studs when we moved in. I sucked at drywall then and for this spot, I didn't worry about remudding it now cause the mirror for over the vanity will cover it.
You can see here I did not paint to the floor cause I am installing Oak wainscotting around the bottom and this weekend I am ripping up the sheet vinyl floor and installing new tile. My view of this bathroom is to try to make it look like a library. The dark green walls, the stained oak wainscotting around the bottom, oak trim will be put up around the window and oak base moulding for the floor. I am building a custom vanity with a custom cut marble top with a "mount from the bottom" sink. And I have bought a real nice light fixture for above the sink that has that old library look with 4 hang down lights (hard to describe but it's perfect).
Anyway, that's where I'm at now, it's been a ton of work to get to this point, I have done everything myself and loved every minute of it. I'll be sure to post pictures of the finished product when I'm done.
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Otis
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posted November 28, 2003 05:45 AM
Oh, and there will be a new door for the bathroom, a solid Oak door I built. It's beautiful.
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posted November 28, 2003 07:09 AM
Beautiful work. The library theme is a great idea. The bathroom is where I do most of my reading anyway. 
Steve
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fish_antlers
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posted November 28, 2003 09:35 AM
wow... yer making me feel guilt putting off my own reno...
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fish_antlers
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posted November 28, 2003 09:38 AM
hey.. did you do the tile yerself... I need to do some tiling... saw a cheap chinese tile tablesaw at HD and was thinking of buying it/using it but I've never tiled... how hard is it etc?
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necro
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posted November 28, 2003 11:28 AM
It looks like a lot of work. Have you done such a think before?
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posted November 28, 2003 11:45 AM
I will be doing the tile this weekend Fish, it's actually much easier than you may think. My father bought a tile saw, I think the same one you are thinking of and I will be using it to do the bathroom. He used it for his bathroom and said it's great.
Necro, I've never done framing or plumbing before. I've done a little drywall but not much. It has been a lot of work indeed.
By the way Fish, thanks a lot for the Christmas card man, very cool and appreciated. Merry Christmas to you and Princess Kiwi too!!!!
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Hells Dark Lord
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posted November 30, 2003 07:19 AM
all I am getting are x's there Chris, would like to see the pics so freaking fix it eh....lol
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necro
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posted November 30, 2003 02:47 PM
Last summer I did about 300 bags of cement premix.
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