Bathroom Renovation

[kecleveland]

The bathroom won't be exactly like I planned. I had originally hoped to make this bathroom a bit more rustic looking, but I have a wife to please and she didn't want the place looking like it came from a flea market. Below are some of the items I've already purchased.


8"-18" variable width wood paneling with hand planing from Craftsman Lumber in Groton, MA. This will end up getting painted. The wood is getting delivered on Thursday, and I can't wait!


Sconce from Schoolhouse Electric. I will have one on each side of the sink.


American Olean mosaic tile.


Toto faucet in a polished nickel finish.


15" deep by 18" wide Barclay pedestal sink.

[kecleveland]

My bathroom renovation finally started and should be finished late next week. There were several layers of floor boards - linoleum, a "modern" oak floor, and then the original wide board white pine. 100+ years ago the room must have been a pantry because the original pine floor showed a worn groove right down the center from 100+ years of use. Unfortunately the worn floor was covered up before I ever got a chance to see it, my wife told me later. Hopefully the next time I post I can show everyone the finished product!

[lavender_bush]

We have the same tile but chose charcoal grout instead of white - I like the effect, it makes the black 'pop'

[kecleveland]

I'll be using charcoal grout as well.

[kecleveland]

Here's an update. The new floor tiling and wall paneling is in. The vertical beads on the back wall are actually level. This just goes to show how out of whack my house is! We'll probably re-do the back wall and rotate the paneling about an inch to make it "appear" level. The middle photo is a little hidden storage cabinet for the plunger and spare toilet paper. The old door is the last image is original to the house.

[Civil War Seamstress]

Looking good! I need inspiration for my narrow bathroom that has issues!!

[kecleveland]

Here's the pictures of my bathroom. It just needs a towel hook and toilet paper holder. I'm very pleased with the way it came out. The old door in the picture is original to the house, probably about 230+ years old.

[sooth]

Nice, simple, and classic. I love it!

[michaelskis]

As mentioned in the other thread, we are doing a gut job on a very bad 2nd floor bathroom. Right now, all the plumbing is along one wall and it makes everything feel very crowded. We will be gaining some room because of two areas that were enclosed (a 2' by 2' and a 30" by 17") to make room for plumbing and gas lines from when it was an apartment. In the end, we will have an unobstructed 6'3" by 7'6" box.

I used google sctechup to figure out the layout. The tub and the sink fit best in the same general location. However, we would end up moving the toilet onto a different wall entirely. Right now, there is plumbing in that location that was leftover from when the neighboring room was a kitchen, but I fear that it will be greatly undersized and is in the opposite corner of the room as the location of the vent stack (about 10 feet diagonal) Also, since it is a second floor bathroom, (right above the entryway) I am not sure what all I am going to need to to to upgrade the drain line. We plan on using a low flow toilet and I am not sure if we should go with a 3 inch or 4 inch drain and how we should run it so it connects into the drain stack. We also plan on replacing the very old 8-inch cast iron drain stack with PVC. This bathroom is the only thing on the line and it is not actually in a wall, but runs through a servants pass through that goes under the main stairwell from the kitchen to the front door.

Now I guess the question is does anyone have any suggestions regarding what size waste line to use from the toilet to the stack and suggestions on how to run in it under the floor? We plan on stripping everything down to the studs and the joists, so it will be fully open. We want to also want to insulate all the walls and the floors for a combination of noise and temperature balance.

The other new question I have is we currently have the heater vent in the ceiling (furnace for 2nd floor is in the attic) and we are thinking about relocating the heating vent down near the floor for better circulation. I will also be putting an exhaust vent in the ceiling since there is nothing right now. I already found a location that would work great, but I was wondering if anyone else has done something like this before.

[kecleveland]

The plumbing work in my house was actually fairly easy. This bathroom is located over my basement. The plumbing was only being relocated a foot or two, and this bathroom never had a vent stack. We also replaced the old cast iron with PVC, which took a significant amount of weight off my 230+ year old beams. My walls are plank framed (no cavity) so finding space for electrical and insulation was more of a challege. Since the room was only about 3 foot wide I wasn't willing to give up too much space for insulation. We ended up with about 2" of foil faced rigid; it should help a little. We ran most of the electrical between the furring that new paneling was nailed to.

At my upstairs bathroom the plumbing line is between floor beams. Luckily it didn't need to cross below any beams before it makes the drop down to the basement.