Whoa, time flies and I totally forgot about this blog!!
It's nice to look back on the dining room wainscotting and utility room upgrade. Last February - about a year ago - we revamped our master bathroom. Here's the before images.
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| A wall split the vanity from the toilet & tub |
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| View from the tub |
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| Shower view once the wall was down |
First thing was taking down that wall. I'm not a pro so I had to pay $200 for an engineer to tell me the wall was not load-bearing. Once it was down, it was amazing how much room there was in there!
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| Vanity removed and new wiring set up. |
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| Had to build a new corner complete with outlet |
One of the very first things we did was install my favorite feature! A bluetooth speaker/fan/light! This was a bit of a pain to install (crawl space, egk!) but once installed, we had wonderful lighting and music (not to mention a fan sucking up all the drywall dust!). Still, my favorite feature of this bathroom!
From there, we completed the walls, painted and began to work on the electrically heated floor.
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| 110v electric floor heat layout. |
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| Laying tile over the electric line. |
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| Looking good! |
From there, we got the new vanity in place. Nice new dimming light above and lots of space for bathroom items!
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| Setting things up - Ikea vanity. |
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| So much improvement! |
Once things were operational again, we took a bit of a break. But, we never forgot about the terrible looking walls in the tub surround.
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| YUCK! |
So, a few months later, while Jocelyn was out of town, I got working on my first wall tile project ever!
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| Water resistant cement board |
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| Botoms up tiling job! |
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| Notice the shelf on the left. |
It's so nice to have a beautiful open bathroom space! The floor heats up in the morning on winter days (the cat loves it!) and we can simply hit a button to pair our phone with the loud bluetooth speaker! It's definitely loud enough to overpower the shower and the fan noise. My favorite feature! (did I mention that yet?)
Of course there's always more to do - namely one day we'll upgrade the toilet. But for now, it's 100% better!
Cheers,
-JV2
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