Bathroom Renovation

So for the last two months we've been working on a major bathroom renovation on the second floor. While the bathroom worked, the bathtub was old, worn, and small, the tiles on the walls and floor were worn and cracking, the radiator got in the way, we only had one vanity, and it just got crowded when Sarah and Brody wanted to join us in the morning to get ready.

We do not have a master bathroom and this is the main bathroom for the three bedrooms we have upstairs. Fortunately, we do have a bathroom with a shower downstairs in the side room that we converted from a half bath several years ago. Also, as with old houses built in the 1930's we have a random toilet in our basement (yes, it works most of the time and is just in the basement next to a utility sink--no door or separate room, just out there against a wall).

We initially planned to just hand this over to the professionals after doing most of the house projects ourselves (that includes our parents when referring to the bathroom and porch renovations!). However, after the initial estimates and sticker shock, we were back to rolling up our sleeves and going the DIY route. Again, this is with the help of our parents, who know what they are doing with helping us setting up walls and tiling.

The first week was demolition and putting in reinforcements on the floors. Greg handled most of that. There was a lot of tile, mortar and plaster to remove. So much so that what we thought would take 3 days, took 7 and included some help from his parents and brother who came up. After that, the plumbers came in to put in the new pipes since we moved everything around to make a tight space the most efficient it could be.

The next week, I took off and my parents came down. My dad and Greg worked on getting the bathroom walls and floor setup --always a project with old homes. After that, my mom and I worked on getting heated and floors in and getting the tile up. There was a lot of tile since we decided to have it go up half way on the walls. After that was all the finishing work. We are now almost completely finished. We have a few finishing pieces but we can use it and Sarah loves her new bathtub!

Old Bathroom looking at the shower

Old bathroom with one vanity

Old bathroom-radiator in the way, couldn't open the vanity drawer all the way

Walls are out to make room for new vanity (we had to move the wall back into our closet)

Demolition--old tub still in place (we let the plumbers take this out because it was cast iron)

Walls down to the studs with new bathtub and in new place to make it more open

Walls are up for the new tub

Walls are in for new vanity

New shower and tub!