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My small bathroom makeover

18 years ago

It's not fancy but much better than before. I'm happy with it. We had to remove old wallpaper what a pain and messy.

Removed popcorn ceiling, it wasn't to bad.

New lighting

Taking up the old stick down tile and linoma was the pits, it took a lot of work. Poor hubby worked on this for two days good thing it was only 20 square feet.

New tile floor is down.

Last weekend was spent trying to put the old toilet, DH works on planes guess he's never installed a toilet cause he tighten the nuts on the flange to tight and broke the flange. After spending all day Saturday having to run back and forth to home depot to fix broken flange HD had the toilet in the tub laying on it's back, don't ask me why but he ended up dropping the seat on the tank and broke the tank. Well, wouldn't you know the toilet was more than 20 years old so they know longer carry that model. So we went and purchased a new toilet. DH said he wanted a new one in the beginning anyway LOL.

Nearly finished, just a few small thing's to do.

Comments (10)

  • 18 years ago

    Love your new tiles and wall color. Good job! What did you do with the ceiling after you removed the popcorn?

  • 18 years ago

    Very pretty and a good story about the toilet.... I really like the wall color- what is it?
    and just curious - what color is the tub? At first glance I thought white but I am not sure if it is my monitor it looks non-white. Very pretty whatever it is, just curious (taking names-lol)
    You must be so happy and proud.

  • 18 years ago

    We removed our big slab mirror like yours and installed a large framed mirror ($75 at Home Depot) and it made a dramatic difference in the room. Something about those plate class mirrors just screams "builder grade." I would recommend something that would coordinate with your brushed nickel fixtures.

  • 18 years ago

    That's a very nice update you did on your bath. It looks really pretty.

  • 18 years ago

    Looks great, good job.

  • 18 years ago

    A room completely refreshed ... good job!

  • 18 years ago

    Wall color is a light blue, and the tub is white. One of the thing's that really pulled it all together was the shower curtain.
    jbjust, I would love to remove the old mirror but DH has a hard enough time with what work we've already done. He's not the DIY type.

    I am happy, it has made such a big improvement to that little space that use to be all beige.

    DS came over yesterday and saw our handy work for the first time, he's a very good handyman and he praised us for the work we did. Yesterday I finished hanging the door back on and the trim, the trim is very hard to do when you have to cut and piece to fit between the door trim and wall with only half inch.
    A pro would have no problem but for someone that doesn't do that type of work I'd go broke if I was trying to make a living at it LOL. It took me 3 hours to do a 18 1/16" - 3" and 1/2 inch cut.

    The thing that I liked about doing the trim myself verses having it done was it could be done right. I use the oil based primer doing two coats front and back making it water resistant. Were the old stuff was rotting away from the back side.

    Next up is the kitchen but we're having to hire it out :( it's to big of a job for me.

    Thank you for your kind comment, Barb

  • 18 years ago

    What a nice job you two did. My upstairs bathroom is exactly the same size/layout except we have a window above the towel bar. We even have the same shade of blue paint on the walls. Can you tell me how you removed the popcorn ceiling since neither my DH or I are DIYers besides painting or hanging up pictures on walls :) Also, what is your vanity top made of? Is it a Corian material?

  • 18 years ago

    I wish our's had a window but on the other side of the wall is a bed room closet. I thought about doing a fake window LOL then knocked some sence into my head.

    The counter top is part of the orginal bath room. I think's it's that fake marble stuff, sorry don't know what it's called.

    If and or when we replace the counter top it will have to be made to order cause it's not stock. Where home depot and lowes carry 22" depth our's is only 18" in depth.

    When it does get replaced I will go with granite and then maybe I can hit DH up for getting rid of the old mirror :)

  • 18 years ago

    Don't be intimidated into not removing that mirror. I have NO skills, I wouldn't even know where to begin with what you've done, but I was able to remove the plate mirror in about 5 minutes and hanging a new mirror was no harder than hanging a picture. The only real work is doing some light sanding if there is residual adhesive and then painting over where the mirror was.