The major problem with our old home in Tupelo has always been the bathrooms, which I am sure were original to the house. Very dated and grimy and disgusting. We started with the worst, which was the tiny en suite in the master bedroom.
The before pics will show you what we were dealing with, the biggest problem, not enough space. So we went into the closet in the next room (a large coat closet behind the front door in living room) and utilized this space for a new shower. Also took out some old built in cabinets and into one of the closets in bedroom to “square” it off. That gave us just enough room to do what we wanted. This took the contractor over a month to accomplish as it involved moving all the plumbing which entailed tearing into the concrete. Not a fun job!
Here are pictures of what the bathroom looked like before! The tiny corner shower was so disgusting we never used it even once. Goodbye tiny bathroom and yellow tile! Here comes a big mess!
Here are the in progress pictures. You can see how glad we are that this is finally done. One of the last things was to drywall in the living room where the closet door was. If you have ever been around dry wall sand, you will understand why we spent all last weekend, vaccuming, mopping and dusting. Of course with Monday morning, here came the crew to get started on the 2nd bathroom, so much for the clean floor! LOL
Finally it is done! Notice also the storage cabinet that fits perfectly under the window. Patti made that! and she also did the old ladder towel hanger/shelf for over the toilet. So much talent! so….here’s the final product! New bathroom…HURRAH!
It’s still a smallish bathroom, but double the size it was before! What do you think? Besides this we haven’t been up to a whole lot, some little projects, like finishing new storage cabinets for each of the bathrooms and corraling accessories like baskets LOL…fun stuff! We have a few more little projects going and Patti will share those on facebook. I continue to draw her little pictures to try to explain my ideas, she continues to puzzle over them, but eventually with a lot of hand gestures and descriptive words, she does get it figured out what I need her to do (she’s in charge of the power tools you know!) I’m not allowed to operate most of them, she does let me use the sander though! Last week I managed to drop a big block of wood that we were trying to move and of course it landed on my foot. So now I guess I’m banned from that too. Is it my fault she inherited all the coordination?
The guest room is now available again! It was a giant storage area as we cleaned out 2 big closets for the renovation. All restowed in their places now. Weather has started to cool off in the evenings. We actually have turned the a/c off and don’t need the furnace yet, so all is good! Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you have been up to!
I really like it . Did you do it yourself?
Lord no! There is a limit to what 2 old ladies can tackle. It was all done by contractor .we did pitch in with a little painting
The barn door has me puzzled…new or old? I love that floor. Think the shower is almost as big as the rest of the bathroom but I always said the bathroom does not have to be so big. Not a room we spend a lot of time in. Would rather have my room in the other rooms! Good job!
That is a new barn door. The other bathroom will have barn door too and that will have some siding on it from our old barn. Stayed tuned
That’s awesome ladies ! Great look and love the big shower now yes😁😁💕
LOL! I have that yellow tile in my bathroom (only it is blue)!