Bathroom Remodel
Eric and I purchased our Sparrowwood home back in 2002 and we knew then we wanted to redo the main level bathrooms. Certainly the main hall bathroom, which had salmon colored tile and bathtub, needed some updating. Then we investigated price and amount of bother, and we decided we would delay remodeling.
We called in our trusty plumber many times over the next 12 years, but the collective problems kept mounting. In 2014, in the hall bathroom, the toilet ran too long, the shower leaked into the basement, the tub faucet continuously dripped, the flooring was water damaged and not level, the exhaust fan was gunked up with roofing tiles. The light fixture and the medicine cabinet reliably worked, but everything else was in various stages of broken.
The master bath was in better shape, with only two things technically broken: the medicine cabinet and the sink stopper. But the pipes, etc., were from the early 1960's and we all would be happier if they were updated to a reliable level.
We committed. I spent a substantial portion of my summer shopping, comparing, measuring, ordering, and accumulating everything we would need for two bathrooms. Yes, we decided to remodel two bathrooms at once. The inconvenience level would be higher -- the five Whomptons would be restricted to one bathroom for the duration -- but the overall inconvenience would be shorter in duration.
Demolition began September 7th. We came home from school to see a massive amount of trash in our garage and a cleared out space in the bathrooms. When our contractor said he was ripping everything out to the studs, he was not kidding.
What was cool was looking from the hallway bath into the master bath. If you look closely, you can see the two new bathtubs installed.
Then the walls went up and we had to peek into each room individually to see progress. The process was fascinating to experience second-hand, as we would come home from work each day and progress had "magically" appeared in our absence.
Unfortunately, we're missing two intervening pictures. I guess we never took them. The tile flooring went in, then the cultured marble walls, then the painting and installation of last items. We had three functional toilets by October 20th, which was an absolutely wonderful gift.
Here is the new hall bath.
And here is the new master bath.
We're looking forward to not calling our plumber for at least 15 years!
We called in our trusty plumber many times over the next 12 years, but the collective problems kept mounting. In 2014, in the hall bathroom, the toilet ran too long, the shower leaked into the basement, the tub faucet continuously dripped, the flooring was water damaged and not level, the exhaust fan was gunked up with roofing tiles. The light fixture and the medicine cabinet reliably worked, but everything else was in various stages of broken.
The master bath was in better shape, with only two things technically broken: the medicine cabinet and the sink stopper. But the pipes, etc., were from the early 1960's and we all would be happier if they were updated to a reliable level.
We committed. I spent a substantial portion of my summer shopping, comparing, measuring, ordering, and accumulating everything we would need for two bathrooms. Yes, we decided to remodel two bathrooms at once. The inconvenience level would be higher -- the five Whomptons would be restricted to one bathroom for the duration -- but the overall inconvenience would be shorter in duration.
Demolition began September 7th. We came home from school to see a massive amount of trash in our garage and a cleared out space in the bathrooms. When our contractor said he was ripping everything out to the studs, he was not kidding.
What was cool was looking from the hallway bath into the master bath. If you look closely, you can see the two new bathtubs installed.
Then the walls went up and we had to peek into each room individually to see progress. The process was fascinating to experience second-hand, as we would come home from work each day and progress had "magically" appeared in our absence.
Unfortunately, we're missing two intervening pictures. I guess we never took them. The tile flooring went in, then the cultured marble walls, then the painting and installation of last items. We had three functional toilets by October 20th, which was an absolutely wonderful gift.
Here is the new hall bath.
And here is the new master bath.
We're looking forward to not calling our plumber for at least 15 years!
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