Tis the season to start indoor home improvement projects! We'd been planning a master bathroom redo (not really a remodel since we're using a most of the original fittings post-reno) for a while, and since we've decided to get builders in next summer to redo our upstairs layout, we figured it'd be nice to get this done first, so that when they're done, our upstairs is entirely done!
The original plan - rip out our cabinet (moldy from a leak pre-ownership, so has been sealed ever since we moved in) - replace with cabinet from second upstairs bathroom (which is being emptied with the builders next year); replace toilet; paint walls; replace light fitting with a light fitting from downstairs. Cheap fixes, but would make a huge difference.
The reality has been somewhat different. But we were also lucky. The mold it turned out ran into the wall and into the floor. The wall was pretty minor (some drywall repair), but unfortunately the tile floor has to be ripped up and we have to replace the subfloor too. Though we'd love to replace it with a heated tile floor (it gets brrr here in Maine!), we can't run that cost right now, so we're replacing it with groutable vinyl sticky tiles. Way cheaper, and we looked around, they don't look too bad and will be much warmer underfoot than non heated tile. One day, maybe when we can put in a proper shower, we'll redo the floor...again. We also found our upstairs heating is somewhat more interesting than we thought. Rather than 3 radiators in our bathroom, the other bathroom and the back bedroom, it's actually one pipe that runs through the wall. For our bathroom remodel it doesn't mean much, but for the back bathroom it changes plans somewhat (and of course, will cost more $$s...). Stay tuned for that one....
Everything else has so far gone to plan.....though very slowly, we've had a string of visitors and visits, which has been great fun, but i'm keen to move back into our bedroom soon!
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| Brandon removing the "contractor quality" toilet that both rocks and drives us both crazy. This might be the part i'm most excited by, a new toilet....:) |
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| The mess behind the cabinet, mold running into the wall and into the subfloor.... |
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| Apparently our radiator doesn't end, it just runs through the entire back half of the house, and into three different rooms..... |
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| Our bedroom has turned into a painting station.... |
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| The tile floor, which we had hoped to keep, is gone....Brandon had fun with the sledgehammer..... |
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