The powder room is now completely done. The room is so small that getting pics was tough. For those who missed this part, the powder room I started with had a cheap shower enclosure, a small sink and a toilet stuffed into a 4 x 6' room. This room was partially tiled to the ceiling with terrible 12 x 12" ceramic tiles nearly 3/8" thick, adhered to chipboard. And what wasn't tiled was painted a horrid turmeric yellow, over very lumpy walls, at least 4 layers of wallpaper deep. The original door trim had been cut to make the bad shower fit. Did I mention the folding closet door for a door ? Or the impossible to remove privacy film on the window ? A nightmare.
While in theory I "could have" fixed the plaster, in practice the bottom 1/3 was missing from where the tongue and groove boards had been. There was a huge amount of undoing until we even got to the doing part.
We used 1/4" and 3/8" drywall so as not to bury the window trim. I scored a bunch of salvaged antique door casings, and trim boards on Kijiji, so those went up, including the unusual square corner blocks. Many big thanks to Gothichome, who got me the plinths I needed, for the door casings. (Contractor grumbled those plinths were harder to cut/nail as they were fir v.s. pine). The floor was discovered to have many holes and a little rot from pipes having been moved around several times. The original plan was to use the white ceramic tile from the ReStore for the floor, so that is what was done.
The antique marble sink was an excellent $ 30.00 score from Kijiji. The medicine cabinet was free from an apartment reno. The door was a Milette brand door from Home Depot with glue chip glass. This was the best match for the original kitchen door, which is 98% identical except for the glue chip glass. I replaced the lower glass in the original window with privacy glass.
I painted the walls Benjamin Moore "Castleton Mist" (sort of a light chartreuse) with "Nantucket Grey" trim. On its own the Nantucket Grey is quite greenish, almost khaki, but against the yellowish wall color it becomes light pearl grey.
The chrome stand for the sink is unusually tall. Installed, the top of the sink is 37" to the floor. I am somewhat tall, so I didn't mind. The plumber had several questions just to make sure before the sink went up.
This room was absolutely the worst room in the house, so it feels incredible to have finally resolved/completed this.
(Adjacent kitchen is in progress.)
p.s. Yes, sink drain pipe is ABS not fancy chrome. The expense and hassle of using a chrome drain pipe which will only be seen by those on the toilet seemed foolish.
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Still have stitches from my hand surgery. They come out on Monday morning, so hopefully in a few days after that, I'll be able to work. It feels perfectly OK, I just have to be careful of the stitches.
