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[Althea]

NotAllThere is a wood whittler first and foremost.

You wish you had my abilities. But that's obvious by your overt jealousy of every aspect of my life.

[Althea]

Be careful with that. Around here the walk-in shower attracts parrots. lol

LMAO.

I just finished renovating GF's bathroom. We now have a 4'x 41/2' shower. What a joy.

[Nordberg]

He is absolutely correct about the problems with low flow toilets: https://www.plumbermag.com/how-to-ar...w_flow_toilets. Plenty of other references if anyone wants to look.

So you flush 10 or 15 times? I do not. I have not noticed my face looking orange from the lights. Why does it just work on him?

[Sailor]

So you flush 10 or 15 times? I do not. I have not noticed my face looking orange from the lights. Why does it just work on him?

Just I think you cannot make any dumber statements, BAM!!!!!!!!!!!! There it is.

[christiefan915]

My Bengal loved water! They are an exception!

One of my calicos likes water, too. She'll come up to me to be petted and her fur is wet, so I know that somewhere she played in water.

[christiefan915]

LMAO.

I just finished renovating GF's bathroom. We now have a 4'x 41/2' shower. What a joy.

Nice! What kind of tile did you use?

[Althea]

Nice! What kind of tile did you use?

Hang on. I'll edit some pix.

[christiefan915]

Hang on. I'll edit some pix.

Oh goody!

[Althea]

Oh goody!

GF watches too much t.v.. She's addicted to Chip/Joanna Gaines. Joanna is addicted to shiplap. Naturally, one wall HAD to be shiplap. I did a two part wash on the wood to tie it into the blue in the bathroom, while making it look weathered.

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Shower is where the toilet used to be. Huge area...might as well make a huge shower.

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[christiefan915]

GF watches too much t.v.. She's addicted to Chip/Joanna Gaines. Joanna is addicted to shiplap. Naturally, one wall HAD to be shiplap. I did a two part wash on the wood to tie it into the blue in the bathroom, while making it look weathered.

shiplap.jpg

Shower is where the toilet used to be. Huge area...might as well make a huge shower.

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That is just beautiful! I love the shiplap feature wall, and the shower is stunning. I suppose like Joanna your GF directed the operation and like Chip, you carried it out.

Did you get your shiplap at a Home Depot or Lowe's? I've seen them sell it in boxes.

[Althea]

That is just beautiful! I love the shiplap feature wall, and the shower is stunning. I suppose like Joanna your GF directed the operation and like Chip, you carried it out.

Well...there was a lot of 'directing', and also a lot of heated debate. She wanted to keep everything where it used to be. That would have given us a standard tub sized walk in shower, and a toilet in that huge space that is now the shower. Of course, I've done quite a few bathrooms so I could picture it. She couldn't. After I ripped out the walls/floor, I was able to draw everything out and she agreed to my suggestions. EVERYTHING was a fight. She didn't let me build a small knee wall next to the toilet. I typically build a cubby in the wall for a magazine rack/toilet paper holder. Funny...she couldn't crap in there for a long time...too wide open. (I tried to tell her)

Did you get your shiplap at a Home Depot or Lowe's? I've seen them sell it in boxes.

Not in HD. Their shiplap had a chamfer on the edges that made it look like tongue in groove. I got this at a lumber yard. It was cheaper than buying the pine and making it myself.


We did buy the (high end) vanity cabinetry at HD. No way I was going to build them for that price. Having trouble getting good pix of the vanity. Going to go try again.

[christiefan915]

Well...there was a lot of 'directing', and also a lot of heated debate. She wanted to keep everything where it used to be. That would have given us a standard tub sized walk in shower, and a toilet in that huge space that is now the shower. Of course, I've done quite a few bathrooms so I could picture it. She couldn't. After I ripped out the walls/floor, I was able to draw everything out and she agreed to my suggestions. EVERYTHING was a fight. She didn't let me build a small knee wall next to the toilet. I typically build a cubby in the wall for a magazine rack/toilet paper holder. Funny...she couldn't crap in there for a long time...too wide open. (I tried to tell her)

Not in HD. Their shiplap had a chamfer on the edges that made it look like tongue in groove. I got this at a lumber yard. It was cheaper than buying the pine and making it myself.


We did buy the (high end) vanity cabinetry at HD. No way I was going to build them for that price. Having trouble getting good pix of the vanity. Going to go try again.

I like the idea of the knee wall. Also on HGTV they show toilets completely walled off and I like that even more. I understand your GF's difficulty of picturing a finished bathroom while looking at studs lol. In the show I'm bingeing, Good Bones, the one woman walks into a dump, looks around, and says "we can tear this wall down and make it a LR-DR combination, we can move the steps to the other side of the hall, we can close in the back porch and make it a kitchen, etc." There's no way in the world I can picture it until they lay down the blueprints. Gotta see it on paper.

Hope you can get some pics of the vanity. I love to see this stuff, it gives me ideas.

[Althea]

I like the idea of the knee wall. Also on HGTV they show toilets completely walled off and I like that even more. I understand your GF's difficulty of picturing a finished bathroom while looking at studs lol. In the show I'm bingeing, Good Bones, the one woman walks into a dump, looks around, and says "we can tear this wall down and make it a LR-DR combination, we can move the steps to the other side of the hall, we can close in the back porch and make it a kitchen, etc." There's no way in the world I can picture it until they lay down the blueprints. Gotta see it on paper.

Hope you can get some pics of the vanity. I love to see this stuff, it gives me ideas.

Truthfully, what a lot of these 'designers' do is to 'borrow' something they've seen elsewhere. In the beginning, it's nothing more than 2nd grade math. You know that you need certain amounts of space for typical applications, and you work on layout from there.

GF was worried about making the room too cramped, as it used to have a ridiculous layout. It's a huge room....15'x7'. Bathrooms are supposed to be 'cozy', as opposed to a kitchen that should be spacious and have large work areas.

I think the knee wall would have been perfect, but I'm not in charge of executive decisions. I have a few antique tables that I can refinish and put near the toilet. Design kept changing as the room came together. Originally, I was going to frame a closet next to the vanity. I suggested we use matching pantry cabinets instead. Much cleaner, and less obtrusive. (Hey...what's another $2k?) It created a unique situation where I pulled the 21" deep vanity cabinets forward to 24" which made for a deeper countertop. I put a 4" shelf atop the splash. It was a fight at first "Why do I need a f'ing shelf on the backsplash?"

Now she loves it. The door on the right wall is a medicine cabinet. I framed the shower wall out an extra 6" in order to have a 10" deep hollow to build a matching cubby with a door. Best medicine cabinet ever. It holds all of our crap.

Cabinets are Kraftmaid with a plywood upgrade. About $5k after discounts at HD. I took the old mirror and cut it down. Made a matching frame. I went a bit hog wild with the lighting. You can see the sconces. There are recessed lights above the vanity. A ceiling fixture in the middle of the room, with a fan/light in the shower. We can make movies in there.



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[ThatOwlWoman]

GF watches too much t.v.. She's addicted to Chip/Joanna Gaines. Joanna is addicted to shiplap. Naturally, one wall HAD to be shiplap. I did a two part wash on the wood to tie it into the blue in the bathroom, while making it look weathered.

shiplap.jpg

Shower is where the toilet used to be. Huge area...might as well make a huge shower.

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Gorgeous!

LOL @ shiplap.

How hard is it to do a DIY remodel like this?

[ThatOwlWoman]

I like the idea of the knee wall. Also on HGTV they show toilets completely walled off and I like that even more. I understand your GF's difficulty of picturing a finished bathroom while looking at studs lol. In the show I'm bingeing, Good Bones, the one woman walks into a dump, looks around, and says "we can tear this wall down and make it a LR-DR combination, we can move the steps to the other side of the hall, we can close in the back porch and make it a kitchen, etc." There's no way in the world I can picture it until they lay down the blueprints. Gotta see it on paper.

Hope you can get some pics of the vanity. I love to see this stuff, it gives me ideas.

We watch those home remodeling shows a lot. How DO they come up with those ideas just looking at plain walls? Of course those programs are all scripted so no doubt they've already looked at the proposed remodel, drew out the ideas, and are just following a script that makes the rest of us think they're building geniuses.