This one is a serious remodel, to include moving walls and fixtures, tiling multiple rooms/surfaces, and a complete fabrication of a shower.
After.
Before, from the bedroom. Here is a typical 1970s 2x16 closet. And the curious thing was the huge amount of unused space at the end of the bed in the master.
And the master bath had only 30 sf, with about 32" for the toilet.
And a mere 2 ft vanity.
And the guest bath had 50 sf
And a double vanity.
We spent five hours trying to reconfigure things to get better use out of the space.
While the owners was in Moab for the week, we hurriedly moved the wall in on the second bath after removing one of the sinks and set the bath up for use while gutting and rebuilding the master bath.
Here we knocked out the wall at the back of the closet and will move it a foot into the second bath, whose dimensions will now be set.
Demolition for the whole project fit in the back of my old F150. Just one load.
Wall between the bedroom closet and the second bath is temporarily gone. Closet wall is gone too.
The closet has morphed from 2x8 to 5 deep by 6 wide. We did a full size mockup in order to test whether a 5x5 closet could work as a walk in. It couldn't. Minimum 6 ft wide required. So we went back to the drawing board to find 5 sf somewhere in the plan. It took a while but this is our final solution. And it worked.
Now we have room for a much larger no-door shower. And since the room is still small, we chose to make it seem larger by cutting a notch out of the shower wall so visibility into the shower and from the shower into the rest of the bath will make the room seem larger.
Here is the underlying rubber gasket for the packed sand shower floor.
Corners folded up for no leakage.
The packed sand installed. It's actually concrete that won't shrink as it cures. Graded gracefully (1/4" per ft) to the center drain.
Wonderboard installed so all of the tile has 1/2" of concrete backing for solidity.
Two nooks for shower necssities. Keeps the shower looking clutter free from the outside.
The floor is now tiles, after a complete layer of Red Guard has been applied to provide the second impermeable layer in the shower.
A corner seat -- quartz from Granite Concepts in Lewiston -- was added because the customer seems to be in a cast or boot about a quarter of every year. Nicely smoothed on the edge.
Electric floor heat mat. I put one of these in just about every bathhroom now.
Concrete poured on the electric heat mat. And tile being laid out for look.
The floor heat thermostat is in and working.
Tile laid on the floor. Grout next.
The finished bath with new vanity.
Nice new low flow toilet. These are practically free now with the rebate.
And the glass for the shower wall is installed. Nice and open, yet clean looking.
The second bath used similar tile in a slightly different pattern.
