Another project done...this one, giving the upstairs bathroom aka
boys bathroom a face lift. The bathroom still had it's lovely oak
vanity cabinet and oddly low height of about 28 in tall, hollywood
lights, toilet that did not flush right and wall to wall mirror. My
little idea included staining the cabinet Java...which led to lifting the counter
top, framing the mirror, replacing the toilet, cutting off the counter
over the toilet and replacing the fan with fan/light combo.
This all started with
Pinterest...how to stain the honey oak vanity. This little idea and instructions
here.
I did have the stain for a few weeks, before I got started. But, like many
projects around here, Danny leaves for work, he comes home to find demolition and and a new project has started.
I did the first few coats of stain on the vanity. Then my love said, 'let's do the other things you wanted to do in here'. Woohoo!!!! Now the real demo will begin. We remove that huge mirror, still in one piece. That I was hoping we could cut smaller, hang back up and frame out. Next was cutting the end off overhang that went over the toilet at the end of the counter. Danny was up to the challenge, he first started with a dermal, not working. First of many trips to Lowe's... for a circular saw blade, not working. Danny pulled out the reciprocating saw and went to town. It worked!! Next was sanding the counter top to smooth it down. It looks great, I just need to put some sealer on the end.
Getting rid of the overhang meant we could get a real toilet as in 'taller' one. Again thanks so blog surfing I knew which
one alot of people liked. Happily, it has a 10 flushing power! Yes that is exciting to us. And it was a great price. After removing the old nasty potty we found that the wax rings had never been compressed. Success...new potty in place and working.
Next up, removing vanity counter top. My idea was to add a 1x4 to the top, like the idea I saw
here. To make the counter top higher. This however led to extending the drain pipe, and another trip to Lowes. The faucets we had replaced when we first moved in, so we left those. Time to put the counter back on top of the vanity. As Danny was reconnecting the water lines... they cracked! So off to Home Depot for new water lines...finally plumbing done!
Next we took on the Hollywood lights. Lucky for us the electrical was center between the sinks. When the builders put the light in they cut out the drywall, as you see in the pic. That left us with patching, but that is easy stuff to us. Happily, I did not even electrocute Danny this time when he was playing with electricity...Touch up paint, done.
Now we were ready to cut the mirror. Well, lets just say we may have many years of
bad luck. That mirror was thick. So this led to another trip back to Home Depot for new mirrors.
Mirrors hung, then raised and hung again, yes they are even level.
Here it is....for less than $500 our new bathroom. I still have a few touch ups here and there and I am in the process of painting all our doors and trim, from oil based cream to a latex white.
