Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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.

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  2. Eric----That's my Mom and Dad's old home! They lived there for 45 years (Dave and Theresa Taylor). Mom redecorated the bathroom with the yellow (fashionable 70s harvest gold) tub. Her idea to hang silver butterfly wallpaper above the tub.

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