Bathroom Renovation - Complete

Come in, let me show you around…

The first thing you see on entering the bathroom is the basin. The shower screen is to the right:

The shower screen is hinged so it can be pushed to one side when it’s not in use, to make the room seem bigger:

The shower head is on a rail, so it’s height adjustable. It’s also detachable and on a hose, so you can use it to clean the bath and shower area (or the dog):

There’s a recessed shelf to keep our soap and shampoo in:

And a ‘soaker’ bath (extra deep and extra wide):

 

Before and After Pics

Originally the shower was the first thing you saw when you entered the bathroom:

Now the basin is the first thing you see. You might be able to spot the little panel heater just behind the door in the pic below. It has a timer on it so it’s set to come on before we get up in the morning so we have a nice warm bathroom:

We used to have to walk to the end of the bathroom to get to the vanity. The space was narrow and you could only fit one person in the bathroom at at time:

Now the bath is at the end of the room where the vanity used to be:

The space is much more user-friendly now. Rob and I can both use the bathroom at the same time, and there’s even a spot for TJ:

We also had the toilet renovated, with new floor tiles to match the bathroom, and a new toilet suite. I also painted the toilet, as it used to be green and white, like the hall wall to the right in the pic below. Changing that is my next job…

Bathroom Renovation – Day 24

I decided to keep working on the walls today. Where I had hand-painted (cut in) the corners of the bathroom that the roller couldn’t get to, it looked a bit lighter than the rolled areas, so I hand-painted those areas again, just to get everything looking uniform.

Then it was on to the toilet walls. They were a bit patchy from the partial prep coat applied a week ago, so I sanded back the rough bits, vacuumed up the dust off the floor and walls, then applied another prep coat, waited two hours then put a coat of colour on.

Tomorrow I’ll put the last coat of colour on the toilet walls, then do the windows and doors in both rooms. 

Bathroom Renovation – Day 23

Got two coats of paint on the ceiling and walls of the bathroom today. Not sure about the colour, but hopefully it will look better once it’s dry. Tomorrow I’ll do the window and door, and possibly the walls in the toilet.

Bathroom Renovation – Day 22

I’ve got a few days free until my next batch of work arrives, so am taking this opportunity to paint the bathroom (was too tired last weekend).

So today I washed down all the surfaces that I wanted to paint in the bathroom, then stuck painters tape next to all the surfaces I wanted to paint (to avoid any bleeds), and then I covered the bathroom in drop sheets. And then do you think I could start painting? No. Since the ceiling and walls were bare plaster, and the window frame and door frame were bare timber, I first had to apply a prepcoat to prime, seal and undercoat the surfaces. All of that took most of the day, so actual painting will be tomorrow. Once I’ve decided on a colour. Too. Many. Whites.  

Bathroom Renovation – Day 21

We were planning to paint the bathroom today, but scraping back the flaking paint on the inside of the window frame took much longer than expected. While I was doing that, Rob washed the toilet walls with sugar soap, and put as much prep coat on the toilet walls as he could (a large man with a broken rib in a small space can only do so much). Hope to get the rest done on the weekend.

Bathroom Renovation – Day 20

The bath repair man was here today and was able to fix the damage to the bath – yay!

Now we have another problem. The soft-close toilet seat won’t actually stay up when Rob wants to use it. The project manger took it off and put it back on a couple of times, but wasn’t able to fix it. He thinks it’s a faulty soft-close mechanism so has put in a service call to Reece (the place the toilet was bought from). Someone there will come out and sort it out for us.

I managed to do a little bit of prep for painting today, sanding back the two-tone suede effect paint in the toilet so we can cover it in a low-sheen paint in one colour. I also sanded the window frame and door frame in the toilet. Whoever painted them last put water-based paint directly over the top of oil-based paint and it had started to peel off.  Unfortunately all the sanding made a huge mess :-(

Bathroom Renovation – Day 19

This morning the glass guy came to install the shower screen (it took less time to make the screen than I expected!). The screen has been made so that it folds back out of the way when not in use, so it has been put in that position for now, with instructions not to touch it for two days.

Bathroom Renovation – Day 18

This morning the project manager came in to do a few things, including mounting a bracket on the wall for the panel heater, and giving the plaster a sand in preparation for painting. He also arranged for a cleaner to come later in the day to clean up all the dust and dirt. Unfortunately once the bath was clean, a deep scratch could be seen in the bottom of it:

The bath has been fairly well protected at all stages of the reno – it has been covered with surface protector (like thick blue bubble wrap) and/or a sheet of ply, but somehow it still got damaged.

Someone is coming out in the next day or so to assess the damage and see what can be done.