Y’all, the day is lastly right here! After a year-and-a-half of engaged on this grasp lavatory transform, it’s lastly performed, and I’ve a load of images to point out you. I might be writing a follow-up publish later this week that may embrace the full value, sources, and so on. However for now, I simply needed to get to the photographs. We’ve all been ready means too lengthy for this!
That is positively a room transform. In any case, 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, massive grasp lavatory.
As a result of we utterly modified the perform of the room, and since we turned it into a really massive wheelchair-accessible grasp lavatory, this was not an inexpensive 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 the entire primary, foundational work to show the room into a rest room. His guys did the entire work as much as and together with shifting a wall, constructing new partitions, plumbing rough-in, drywall, concrete board on the lavatory ground and bathe partitions, and pouring the concrete bathe pan.
As soon as their half was performed, I took over and did the entire finishes — putting in tile (lavatory ground and the entire bathe), hanging the wallpaper mural, doing the Venetian plaster wall end, putting in the entire trim, constructing the vanities and two storage cupboards, making a bubble chandelier, and so on.
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 bath. To the left of the mural wall is the bathe, and to the proper 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 seem like when standing within the bed room doorway and searching in direction of the again proper nook and proper facet of the room. You may see the very tiny authentic grasp lavatory there. 😀 I’d say we acquired fairly the improve.
At the moment, if I stand in that very same place and take an image in that very same course, 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 appears to be like like right now…
This subsequent view of the unique main bedroom is trying in direction of the unique tiny grasp lavatory. Behind the closed door was the relatively small walk-in closet.
And that very same view right now appears to be like like this.
The humorous factor is that the unique grasp lavatory continues 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 worry of leaks or burst pipes that we will’t get to.) That room, together with the massive sunroom, might be torn down previous to us constructing the addition onto the again of the home.
This subsequent photograph 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 proper…
The closet was utterly eliminated, the proper half of the wall was moved again about 4 toes (our hallway is way smaller right now), and the doorway into this room was closed up. That view now appears to be like 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 big curbless bathe on the left, and the water closet on the proper.
For now, the one inside entrance into the lavatory is thru the door that you simply see within the photograph 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 might be our foremost entry to the lavatory. For now, issues are just a little unconventional. 😀
You may see right here that this wall of the bed room was was once a stable wall.
However now that wall has the one inside entrance into the lavatory.
However even after we construct our addition, and have regular entry into the lavatory 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 lavatory.
And that is the ultimate earlier than and after of this grasp lavatory transform. That is what the window wall used to seem like…
And right here’s what that wall appears to be like like now. You may see the outside door on the proper under.
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 may finally be an inside pocket door similar to the one on the left wall within the image above.
So these are the entire earlier than and after photos, however I’ve a lot extra photos 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 massive 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 among the room, make the world 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 large angle lens to attempt to get the entire view of the cupboard and the butterfly wall. Broad angle lenses at all times distort issues a bit, however at the very least you possibly can see all the things in a single photograph.
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 big 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 may have loads of room to maneuver round, and it completely needed to be curbless for straightforward 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 type of glass door or something like that. However I did resolve so as to add a bathe curtain to separate the big 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 may be very large, so there are two 36-inch linear drains on the ground to span nearly your complete width. And so as to add extra heat to the bathe, I made just a little teak wood shelf for the shower niche to match the teak bathe stool within the nook.
Listed here are a couple of extra photos of the bathe, with out commentary…
Okay, sufficient in regards to the bathe. 🙂 The principle a part of the grasp lavatory transform is way more enjoyable to have a look at than the bathe, so let’s get a couple of extra appears to be like 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 adore it when a plan comes collectively! 😀
I had a heck of a time developing 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, additionally they wanted to be wheelchair accessible.
After trying and taking a look at 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 call 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 beneath the window.
This was my first time constructing with walnut, and it was a bit scary! Not solely is walnut dear, however I didn’t have my normal backups, like wooden filler and caulk, that I typically have when constructing issues which are 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 performed, and I’ll reside with it. However general, I’m so happy with how the vanities and storage cupboard turned out. You may see the vanity build here, and the storage cabinet build here.
That is one other large 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 power, and quite a lot of my time for 18 months now, and it’s lastly performed! We are able to truly begin having fun with this room now.
And with that, I’ll go away you with a couple of extra photos offered with out commentary…
Like I mentioned, I’ll observe up with one other publish to share the associated fee (together with a price breakdown of every factor) and sources. So should you’re taken with that data, it’s coming!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify 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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