Sunday, March 12, 2006

Half bath re-do

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be replacing the vanity and medicine cabinets in one of our half baths. I don't know if I'll do the toilet yet. But the plan is to pull out the old vanity, repaint the walls, do any cosmetic repairs, then put in a new vanity and cabinets. Here's a look at the work I've done so far.This is the old vanity. The patch on the wall above it is where I removed the old cabinet. That cabinet was a wall-hung one, but when I took it off, there was a gaping hole in the wall - left from some previous owner who had an inset cabinet.


Here, I managed to pull out the sink. It was only attached by caulk to the wall - not even clipped to the cabinet. I had to make sure the water was off before disconnecting the pipes.

After yanking out the cabinet:


There was some old blue wallpaper here and a disgusting looking floor. I found about 5 old Q-tips, a bobby-pin, and one of those dental floss/toothpick things (you can actually see it in the groove on the left side).

Here it is cleaned up. I'll have to add new baseboards, prime the wall, and repaint. I will probably fill in the missing tiles as well, since the previous owner was kind enough to leave about 2 dozen spares in the shed.