I mentioned a few months ago that I was volunteered to remodel my son’s bathroom.  I have a few family members who think carpentry is woodworking.  Not so, but my son needed the help, and my wife would be the project manager.  October 1, I started the demolition.  The toilet and the walk-through door would be the only items reused in the new bathroom.  This bathroom is a small room which lent itself to difficulties along the way.  Also, nothing seemed to be level, plumb, or square.

The initial bathroom had a window in the shower/tub area and there had been a leak.  The plan was to permanently remove the window and install a shower surround.

 

I removed the door, vanity, toilet, light fixture, tub, flooring, existing shower surround, and drywall and found this mess.  The toilet had also been leaking and the floor had been patched.  After I removed the existing drywall, I noticed that the leaking widow caused some rotting.

 

The previous owners had left my son two – 12 ft pieces of siding.  Just enough for this effort.  My brother-in-law did a good job removing the window and trying to position the new siding pieces with the old pieces.

 

I do have some experience with mudding but would not say I am an expert.  I did surprise myself and other than a few questionable corners the finish work looked good.  Because we patched the ceiling to accept the new ceiling fan something had to be done with the ceiling.  After watching a few YouTube videos, for the 1st time I skim coated the entire ceiling.  I am very pleased with the results and thankful that I only had a small ceiling to work with.  Four paint colors were used for the trim, ceiling, walls, and accent wall behind the shelving. 

 

 

I trial fitted the vanity a few times because the new one was slightly deeper and moved to the left because of the pony wall. The old vanity had two doors.  The new vanity had one door and three drawers.  Just as you would guess, the drawers hit the plumbing.  I had to remove four inches from one of the drawers and I routed material off another to make clearance so that the drawers would shut (yea, woodworking).  I was not looking forward to installing the drain plumbing.  I thought the drawer slides may be in the way of the plumbing.  But one more trip to the big box store to get additional/different plumbing pieces and all was well with 1/16” clearance.

 

The bathroom is done, and it looks nice.  Three white oak shelves were added (yes, more woodworking) to provide additional storage.  My wife asked me to help make an accent piece of some-kind of interior decoration.  It was made of white oak also and will complement the shelving nicely.  (There were two electrical outlets added to the right side of the shelfs; they are somewhat hidden).  Thanks for looking.  Danl

 

 

 

You did a really nice job on it, time for a cold one (or three).

That came out great Danl

Beautifully done.  When it was in the torn out state I always told myself....."Look what you've gone and done now!"  Always felt good to see it accomplished.

Looking good..

Thank you all for the kind words.  Now, it is time to do some woodworking.

Danl

Mission accomplished! Looks great!

Great job @Danl.Time to celebrate.

Excellent work all around Dan. No doubt you were happy to conclude the mission but I guessing your son was quite pleased and proud of your work. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the information