Rounding out the first bathroom

Hello all. We actually jumped the gun with the last post. Before tiling we painted the walls and ceiling. If you're going to drip, far better to drip on a floor that's about to get covered up. Plain white on the ceiling and a nice, mild gray on the walls, all courtesy of Sherwin Williams.

 

If you haven't tried to buy household goods lately, then you may not know how hard it is to find things you need. We needed a new vanity for the bathroom, but none could be found despite having more than the usual number of home building supply stores around. We improvised by shortening a standard kitchen cabinet (24-inch depth) by 3 inches. With a guide in place it was a simple matter for the jigsaw. Then we added a new back out of 1/2-inch plywood.

This is what the old vanity looked like. It had the advantage of almost no back but the supply lines were so high they interfered with access to the drain.

We fixed the latter by trimming about 6 inches from the supply lines and installing new shutoff valves.

If you followed our previous house renovation blog then you know plumbing isn't high on our list of favorite activities. It always seems as though you create two problems for every one you try to fix. In this case we had a clean slate and tried to do everything right the first time.

You can tell us if you're as pleased with how everything turned out as we are. Before:

After:

Until next time.