Upstairs Bathroom Renovation

About a year ago I upgraded the upstairs bathroom in our home.  Unfortunately I do not have any before pictures.  The picture below is an after picture.  I will just briefly describe what I did to this room.  I took this picture using my new HD video camera which has 170 degree fisheye lens.  I think camera does a great job for taking pictures in small rooms.  

1. Installed an exhaust fan in the ceiling.  The fan is powered off the same switch which controls the light.  The fan vent runs through the attic to the side of the home.  The trickiest part about this installation was very small section of flat ceiling in this bathroom which made it difficult to fit the fan.  
2. The old toilet and vanity were removed.  
3. The tub originally had a hand held shower on a flexible hose.  I fabricated a rigid copper pipe assembly which runs up the wall to a shower head.  I used chrome spray paint to paint the copper pipe assembly.
4. The tub wall is tiled only hallway up.  So I fabricated a stainless steel shower curtain rod which completely surrounds the tub.  The curtain rod is stepped to match the slanted roof line of the bathroom.  It takes three shower curtains which are custom cut to length to completely surround the tub.  
5. The biggest mistake I made was trying to reglaze the yellow tub to white color using a home depot kit.  Although the tub looked great at first, the glaze quick started chipping and now it looks worse then plain yellow tub did.  I am not sure how I will fix this issue.  I did not want to remove the tub because it is cast iron and quite large and in good shape other then the ugly color.
6. I tiled the floor and it came out pretty good for my first attempt at tiling.
7. My Dad and I designed and built the green vanity.  The vanity has 2 outlets, 2 sconce lights, a shaving mirror, a towel rack, a cereal bowl sink, and a tall tap style faucet.  We built the vanity from poplar and pine.  
8. I also installed a new toilet with a larger oval shaped bowl and a narrow tank.  The original toilet was yellow and the tank was too wide so the toilet had to be installed at a slight angle.
   
   

Demolition of Fake Fireplace

This afternoon Jay and I demolished the fake masonry fireplace in my house to make room for a built-in entertainment center.  The fireplace is non functional and does not have a flu and is definitely not in style.  The first step was to remove the wooden mantle and the trim, using a hammer, crowbar, and sledge hammer.  Then the brick was carefully broken up using a sledge hammer.  The side bricks were removed first and then the center bricks were removed.  We were surprised to find an outlet hidden in the side bricks.  I used an outlet tester to verify the outlet was worked and then turned off the outlet at the breaker while we removed the bricks around it.  This existing wiring for this outlet will prove to be very useful for supplying power to the outlets I plan to add to the built-in entertainment center. Shown below are some pictures of this demolition.  Sorry about the picture quality, my camera was not working well and the pictures came out blurry.

Picture of fireplace before it was removed.

Picture of fireplace after mantle and some of the bricks were removed.

Picture of  working outlet which was found in the side of the fireplace.

Picture of hole in the wall after the fireplace and mantle were removed.