Bathroom redo

The results are in and not a bit disappointing!  Our redesign on a dime bathroom really surpassed our expectations.

We started with this:

I seriously hope that the previous owners of this house never find my blog!  I am sure they were delightful people, but this is too much.  We had to take care of this and fast!

We started by removing the hideous carpet that was glued directly to the sub floor.  Years of yuck that we don’t need to discuss here, trust me.

We proceeded to get this nasty sink out of the house as quickly as possible. We are pretty handy recyclers but neither of us could think of a way that we could reuse this.  Not even fit for a chicken feeder or bird bath. Still, we’ve kept it.  Old habits die hard.

We saw a pinterest post about using plywood for flooring.  Seemed like a small risk and we reasoned that if it failed we could use the wood elsewhere.

We bought two sheets of plywood and Jim used his table saw to cut 3.5 inch strips. We sanded them and nailed them to the subfloor. 

We stained and let dry overnight and came back with a couple coats of polyurethane. The results were quite stunning.

Now the sink…I had this idea to use a vessel sink.  I have childhood memories of visiting a great-aunt in the country. She had a basin and a pitcher on a stand.  When we’d come in from playing in the sugar cane fields, and would take turns pouring water so we could wash up.

I found the sink and the pump faucet at a local chain,  but it was quite pricey.  A quick jaunt to Amazon and I found exactly what I needed at a fraction of the cost.  Bonus: they delivered it to my door!

I had a chest of drawers that I purchased at an antique store and thought It would be the perfect stand for our new sink. It was in poor shape, but has little key holes in all the drawers and would fit my theme nicely.

Jim cut out the top and arrange for the plumbing to fit nicely into newly cut drawers.  He managed to save most of the storage space and the drawers are all fully functioning.

After fresh paint on walls and moulding we are quite pleased with the results.  What do you think?

You can find the original inspiration post here!

Thanks for reading…as always  I welcome comments, thoughts, suggestions, or just say hi!

Eleanor