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H its me, exlrrp again. here's what Ive been working on this month (and last month and the month before that.
To explain:
Now last Fall I cut off an extension on my house that was stupidly made. (Pictures 7 and 8 in this diary) It was a small popout part of a bathroom that was actually built to cover a fuckup. This is known as covering a fuckup with another fuckup, a not uncommon sight in construction. Anyway we hacked it off and burned it up then patched the outside up.
then after I'd been working on it a while I showed you this picture of it in this diary.
OK, here's a couple of "Befores:" (this was 2009, when I installed the new toilet)
here's some "durings>"
Here's what It looked like before installing the vanity
helpful hint: Set up your sink and faucet BEFORE you put the sink top on the vanity, including supply tubes and setting up the stopper.
Ok, so now here's what it finally looks like.
It's a tile floor and I wanted to keep that so I didn't move the toilet, which was oddly placed, about 13" from the wall behind. that's why I built the popout on the right, with the shelves, behind the toilet---to fill up that space. Easier than moving a toilet on a tile floor.
But I had centered the window on the whole wall---when I built that popout it made the window look offcenter and crowded too close to the toliet. I'll spend the rest of my life wishing I'd moved that window over to the left 6" for that and other reasons but Oh Well.
It had a Tbar/panel drop ceiling that looked really crappy. That was done to hide the plumbing on the bath above. I took it out and then discovered the upstairs plumbing was so shitty done I decided to do it over too. This meant remodeling the upstairs bath too, adding another month of work. that's for next month.
So that's what the coffered ceiling's about---hiding the plumbing from up above. Three rows of crown molding. here's a great hint for installing molding: after you make the cuts in molding, stain the ends---that way if a joint is a little open, it doesn' show
You make this as a box, then install in the hole and put casing around it:
Same for this one:
This shower was here before but it had a really crappy looking curtain set up.I'm going to put a glass enclosure on this shower.......some day. no one uses it, this is just a guest bath off the kitchen
A little extra trim around the shower. I used storebought trim molding, would have taken too long to make
and don't forget:
"You always feel so super, when you park that little pooper
on a Bemis Toilet Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat!!!!!!"
(same toilet, new seat)
So what are you working on?