Y’all, the day is lastly right here! After a year-and-a-half of engaged on this grasp lavatory transform, it’s lastly carried out, and I’ve a load of pictures to point out you. I will probably be writing a follow-up publish later this week that can embrace the whole value, sources, and so forth. However for now, I simply wished to get to the photographs. We’ve all been ready manner too lengthy for this!
That is positively a room transform. In spite of everything, we took a room, tore it down to the studs, floor joists, and ceiling joists, and utterly rebuilt it.
Nevertheless it’s a bit deceptive to name it a grasp lavatory transform. That suggests that we took a grasp lavatory and utterly redid it. What we truly did is take the previous grasp bed room and switch it into a brand new, giant grasp lavatory.
As a result of we utterly modified the operate of the room, and since we turned it into a really giant wheelchair-accessible grasp lavatory, this was not an affordable transform, even with me doing half of the work myself. My household helped me with the demolition of the room, after which my contractor took over and his guys did all the primary, foundational work to show the room into a toilet. His guys did all the work as much as and together with transferring a wall, constructing new partitions, plumbing rough-in, drywall, concrete board on the toilet ground and bathe partitions, and pouring the concrete bathe pan.
As soon as their half was carried out, I took over and did all the finishes — putting in tile (lavatory ground and the entire bathe), hanging the wallpaper mural, doing the Venetian plaster wall end, putting in all the trim, constructing the vanities and two storage cupboards, making a bubble chandelier, and so forth.
So in any case of that, let me present you the way it turned out. First up is my favourite factor about this grasp lavatory transform — the mural wall with the tub. To the left of the mural wall is the bathe, and to the suitable of the mural wall is the water closet (rest room room).
After which with me standing within the bathtub and searching the wrong way, that is the view (taken with a large angle lens to get the entire view)…
Now we will again up a bit, and I’ll present you some earlier than and after views.
That is what the room used to appear to be when standing within the bed room doorway and searching in direction of the again proper nook and proper facet of the room. You possibly can see the very tiny authentic grasp lavatory there. 😀 I’d say we obtained fairly the improve.
Immediately, if I stand in that very same place and take an image in that very same route, most of what I’m going to see is the water closet, with the quick wall of the water closet instantly in entrance of me. It’s not a lot to see. 😀
So I’ve to step outdoors of the water closet so that you can get a good suggestion of what that very same (or very related) view seems like right this moment…
This subsequent view of the unique main bedroom is trying in direction of the unique tiny grasp lavatory. Behind the closed door was the somewhat small walk-in closet.
And that very same view right this moment seems like this.
The humorous factor is that the unique grasp lavatory remains to be there behind the wall of the bathe, however there’s no entry to it in any respect. It’s utterly walled off. (Don’t fear, there’s no electrical energy or water going to that room anymore, so no concern of leaks or burst pipes that we will’t get to.) That room, together with the large sunroom, will probably be torn down previous to us constructing the addition onto the again of the home.
This subsequent picture is trying again in direction of the wall that had the walk-in closet on the left, and the bed room doorway that led to the hallway on the suitable…
The closet was utterly eliminated, the suitable half of the wall was moved again about 4 ft (our hallway is way smaller right this moment), and the doorway into this room was closed up. That view now seems like this…
Right here’s a little bit of an angled view in direction of the unique bed room doorway.
With the closet eliminated, the doorway closed up, and the half of that authentic wall that had the bed room doorway moved again and squared up with the again wall of the closet, that gave us loads of room for the massive curbless bathe on the left, and the water closet on the suitable.
For now, the one inside entrance into the toilet is thru the door that you just see within the picture above. That doorway results in our dwelling fitness center. However after our addition is constructed, which can embrace a brand new main bedroom, the bed room will probably be our primary entry to the toilet. For now, issues are a bit of unconventional. 😀
You possibly can see right here that this wall of the bed room was was a strong wall.
However now that wall has the one inside entrance into the toilet.
However even after we construct our addition, and have regular entry into the toilet by the master suite, I believe we’re nonetheless going to maintain this doorway. It simply makes good sense in my thoughts to have direct entry from the house fitness center into the toilet.
And that is the ultimate earlier than and after of this grasp lavatory transform. That is what the window wall used to appear to be…
And right here’s what that wall seems like now. You possibly can see the outside door on the suitable beneath.
It’s a bit unconventional to have an exterior door in a grasp lavatory, however we now have to reside with it for now. That can ultimately be an inside pocket door an identical to the one on the left wall within the image above.
So these are all the earlier than and after footage, however I’ve lots extra footage to point out you!
Let’s begin with the water closet. I simply love this room that’s tucked behind the mural wall. Since our bathe is so giant to accommodate Matt’s wheelchair, that made our water closet a bit bigger than most traditional water closets. And that gave me loads of room to get artistic.
To take up a few of the room, make the realm really feel much less cavernous, and so as to add some sensible storage to the room, I built this cabinet using leftover French doors that I had taken off of our walk-in pantry.
On the wall to the left, I added a gallery wall of colorful butterflies and moths.
This area is bigger than most traditional water closets, however it’s nonetheless a small room, so I used my huge angle lens to attempt to get the entire view of the cupboard and the butterfly wall. Vast angle lenses at all times distort issues a bit, however at the very least you possibly can see every little thing in a single picture.
However right here’s a non-wide-angle, non-distorted view of the butterfly gallery wall…
On the opposite facet of the butterfly gallery wall is the massive curbless bathe. Since Matt (my husband who has M.S.) makes use of a wheelchair, it was crucial that we now have a big bathe the place he might have loads of room to maneuver round, and it completely needed to be curbless for simple accessibility.
This bathe is an absolute dream. It measures about 7′ x 7.5′, and this bathe alone is in regards to the measurement of our total hallway lavatory.
I didn’t need something obstructing his motion, so I didn’t need any form of glass door or something like that. However I did resolve so as to add a bathe curtain to separate the massive bathe into two areas — a moist space and a drying off space. Plus, the bathe curtain retains the nice and cozy air in. I truly love the softness and the spa-like really feel that the bathe curtain provides to the in any other case cold-looking bathe space.
The bathe could be very huge, so there are two 36-inch linear drains on the ground to span virtually your complete width. And so as to add extra heat to the bathe, I made a bit of teak wood shelf for the shower niche to match the teak bathe stool within the nook.
Listed here are a number of extra footage of the bathe, with out commentary…
Okay, sufficient in regards to the bathe. 🙂 The principle a part of the grasp lavatory transform is rather more enjoyable to have a look at than the bathe, so let’s get a number of extra seems at these areas. However first, let me present you the drawing that I did again in April of this yr…
And right here’s the ultimate self-importance wall…
I like it when a plan comes collectively! 😀
I had a heck of a time arising with a plan that I used to be happy with for this wall. I’m an individual who wants symmetry, so the vanities wanted to match. However since Matt is in a wheelchair, in addition they wanted to be wheelchair accessible.
After trying and wheelchair accessible lavatory concepts, and never liking something I used to be seeing, I lastly determined to construct some easy (and never so clearly “wheelchair accessible”) table-style vanities. Every one has two little drawers in it for issues like toothbrush, toothpaste, and get in touch with lens stuff. However clearly that wasn’t going to be sufficient storage in a grasp lavatory.
So for the majority of our storage wants, I constructed a big dresser-style cupboard to go underneath the window.
This was my first time constructing with walnut, and it was a bit scary! Not solely is walnut expensive, however I didn’t have my normal backups, like wooden filler and caulk, that I typically have when constructing issues which can be going to be painted.
My one remorse is that I used a bit of walnut that had a knot in it for the body of the underside proper drawer. In hindsight, I want I might have traded out that piece for one which didn’t have a swirly eye-catching knot in it, however hindsight is 20/20. It’s carried out, and I’ll reside with it. However total, I’m so happy with how the vanities and storage cupboard turned out. You possibly can see the vanity build here, and the storage cabinet build here.
That is one other huge angle lens pic, so it’s a bit distorted, however at the very least you possibly can see the entire wall…
I can’t consider it’s completed. It’s truly completed! This room has consumed my ideas, my artistic vitality, and an excessive amount of my time for 18 months now, and it’s lastly carried out! We will truly begin having fun with this room now.
And with that, I’ll depart you with a number of extra footage introduced with out commentary…
Like I mentioned, I’ll observe up with one other publish to share the fee (together with a price breakdown of every factor) and sources. So in the event you’re interested by that information, it’s coming!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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