Bathroom Bonanza

If we were looking for a new homeowner's challenge, we certainly found it in our first major project of upgrading the upstairs bathroom.

Here's some of the 'before' pictures.  I thought we had more pics of this room, but apparently we couldn't stand the horror:

Don't you love the black floor tile on the wall?
Yes, that's a window on the right - nearly touching the floor.

Fake stonework hid vent pipes and water pipes.

And the other two walls had fake wood paneling...

With all the fake wood and floor tile removed from the walls, we got... yellow!

Then came the biggest surprise of all.  We knew that the toilet leaned a little to the right, and were worried that the floor underneath was rotten.  Well, that was sort of true - the toilet had been balanced on its pipe, with nothing really solid holding up that side but several layers of linoleum...

Under the toilet

And still under...

To fix that, our handyman and I put in lots of wooden braces at various angles, since the pipes interfered with putting in straight joists:

Starting to look better.

After that came two layers of plywood (3/4" and 1/4" inch) to put in a new floor even with the old one.

The same thing happened with the bathroom sink, too, so we put a new floor and reinforcements in there, too:

Here's the sink floor piece that will go around the hot and cold pipes.

More news and pics coming soon!