Bedroom to Bathroom - Before and After
SubscribeSo last year my wife and I decided to make a 4th bedroom into a bathroom and walk in closet. Now it's almost done, opinions?
Specs:
3x5 walk in shower with raised head for me (6'3" tall)
Shower tiled floor to ceiling
Built in shower storage, floating glass door with seals for steam
Bona Kemi Traffic industrial waterproof floor finish over solid red oak (not laminate)
Cheapie Chinese hardwood and black marble vanity and medicine cabinet
Half-Island jacuzzi insulated and set in structolite.
Solid Brass Price Pfister fixtures all around
Fun things like 2 outlets of GFCI for all my wifes hairdyers and sonicare, etc
Did everything myself including plumbing, electrical, drywall, structural strengthening etc.
Before:
After(trim and paint is not up here, there are still new windows to install):



Specs:
3x5 walk in shower with raised head for me (6'3" tall)
Shower tiled floor to ceiling
Built in shower storage, floating glass door with seals for steam
Bona Kemi Traffic industrial waterproof floor finish over solid red oak (not laminate)
Cheapie Chinese hardwood and black marble vanity and medicine cabinet
Half-Island jacuzzi insulated and set in structolite.
Solid Brass Price Pfister fixtures all around
Fun things like 2 outlets of GFCI for all my wifes hairdyers and sonicare, etc
Did everything myself including plumbing, electrical, drywall, structural strengthening etc.
Before:
After(trim and paint is not up here, there are still new windows to install):



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looks like slate to me.Originally Posted by cTLgo
travertine is good stuff
nice work!
Yep, it's slate.
It's actually some kind of chinese slate from the tile shop. I liked the color variation better than the HD and lowes stuff (which they pricematched). Athough I have done my share of tile work and this stuff is nasty, you have to seal it, grout, remove the grouting sealer with acid that lightens the grout, then waterseal it, all that and it's not uniform thickness.
It's actually some kind of chinese slate from the tile shop. I liked the color variation better than the HD and lowes stuff (which they pricematched). Athough I have done my share of tile work and this stuff is nasty, you have to seal it, grout, remove the grouting sealer with acid that lightens the grout, then waterseal it, all that and it's not uniform thickness.
I was about to say why did you put in hardwood floors, until I saw this:
"Bona Kemi Traffic industrial waterproof floor finish over solid red oak (not laminate)"
"Bona Kemi Traffic industrial waterproof floor finish over solid red oak (not laminate)"
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"Bona Kemi Traffic industrial waterproof floor finish over solid red oak (not laminate)"
Originally Posted by synth19
I was about to say why did you put in hardwood floors, until I saw this:"Bona Kemi Traffic industrial waterproof floor finish over solid red oak (not laminate)"
Ok i fibbed a bit. I did have the floors done, with the rest of the house. The Bona Kemi is AWESOME. It's like having epoxy on your floor. Water just beads on it.Yumcha
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Nice work... Some pooh-pooh the loss of a bedroom on house value, but if the bathroom is luxurious it usually pays off
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I dont think I would leave that bathtub. ever.
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That I get completely. I think we were safe because we have one of the larger homes in the neighborhood, and we went from 4 to 3 bedrooms. We only had one bathroom before which was one too few IMO. When we were originally looking for homes, 2 bathrooms (especially a dedicated master) was a big positive for us.Originally Posted by JLatimer
Nice work... Some pooh-pooh the loss of a bedroom on house value, but if the bathroom is luxurious it usually pays off
The only problem now will be that even homes twice the price of ours will have crummier bathrooms (our house was under 150k).
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3 bedroom/2 bath > 4 bedroom/1 bath
If you have enough people in the house to require a 4 bedroom home, you definitely want/need more than one bath.
Looks great!
If you have enough people in the house to require a 4 bedroom home, you definitely want/need more than one bath.
Looks great!
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Looks nice!
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I love the look of everything...I'm sure the slate was a pain in the ass, but in my opinion it looks like it was worth it.
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Props on having the skills to build the bathroom. It looks really good.Originally Posted by charlesgage
Did everything myself including plumbing, electrical, drywall, structural strengthening etc.
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That slate looks like it was worth every drop of sweat. Great stuff, and good on ya for getting a glass door for the stall - was that a custom cut?







