From Harry's post about his bathroom project, I thought I'd show you the bathroom project we completed before the family room. Two things about these projects.
1. When the wife says "Maybe we should remodel the bathroom?", run away, cripple yourself, or join the Merchant Marines
2. If you violated #1, then keep it as simple as possible while maintaing a good look
So here's a few shots in various stages. I don't have any of the fully completed room but it
is done!
Floor & walls - remember #2 above? I threw that one right over the back fence! You are seeing a waterproofing method made by
The Schluter Company. Great product but not the easiest to install. Also note the river stone floor. That was SO fun and easy to install!
So once we got going on this project, I thought "How about an inset shelf? How cool would that be?" I was beating #2 senseless right now... However, I did find a pre-fabbed inset shelf that looked pretty easy to install (installing it was VERY easy but tiling it......).
Here's a closer look at inset and a closer look at the Schulter stuff. Those orange 'squares' are actually dovetailed back into the plastic to rock solid hold the mortar (and tile). Note the floor rocks. They are held together with a membrane which made it a lot easier to install. I was actually entertaining the idea of using them to do the inset shelf. Thank God I came to my senses!
Tiling.... only for the masochist! Inset shelf is partially done. Note the tape to hold the upper pieces and the metal piece (for a shelf). It took me almost two days just to cut all those little pieces and get them up! WAY too much work!
Here's the inset all done with the shelf tiled too. I used a marine grade epoxy instead of thinset for this and clamped them.
Here's a section of wall painted. Janet provided the magic here. I think it came out very nice!!!
More of Janet's magic
Almost done (mirror, light, sink)
When the wife says 'a bench would be nice', see #1
Another perspective
(NO, I will not come to your house and 'help' you with your projects!
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