This new bathroom.....

So it was settled, the new bathroom would now be in the room that was the old kitchen.    

As you can see,  it really was a very tiny room, way too tiny for a kitchen but perfect for a bathroom/laundry room.  So tiny that I had to stand on the cupboards to get a good picture of the whole room.  

First thing we had to do was cover up that door leading to the dining room.. no sense of having two doors in the room.

My son and I had come to spend a Sunday afternoon helping out a week ago or so and since the bathroom had an outer wall, the plaster had to come off so that it could be insulated. That meant we had to tear out the cupboards.  While doing that we ran into one minor problem. See that block of wall?  That's actually the headroom for the stairs to the basement on the other side of the wall. It can't be removed.  That's okay though, See that open spot to the right of it?  That's where the sink is going and so there will be a counter top covering that entire wall. The rest of the counter top will be perfect for folding laundry on.

Here is the space with all the cupboards out and the plaster cleaned up. At this point, my son and I had to leave at this point to get him home to bed so Dad has done a lot more to it since then and has been taking pictures regularly..











So since it's close to Christmas and it's a busy season, I haven't been able to go over and actually help in over a week although I have popped in to see progress whenever I see his truck in the yard.  I've asked him to make sure he is taking pictures of the progress and last night he brought his camera over so here are the pictures of what he has accomplished so far.

Insulation needed to be put into this wall because there was such a draft coming up from probably the basement door that leads to outside.  

The entire bathroom/laundry room needed to be drywalled.  It looks so clean in there! That little indentation in the wall is under the back stairs and is where the refridgerator had been.  It's now going to be a linen closet of some type. 

This will be where the toilet and sink will be in this corner. 

The washer and dryer will go along the same wall as this window.  Basically in front of the door that we closed over. 

 

Dad also put the trim up around the door to the kitchen as well.  He's planning on putting up crown molding by the ceiling in the kitchen as well.

When my son and I arrived that sunday we found that the hole that lead to living room #2 had been dry walled over.  We stood looking at the flue and wondered what it looked like. It was covered in plaster and we weren't if the brick was in good enough shape.  So we picked at a part that would be covered by cabinets anyway and discovered that with a little cleaning, the brick would look great.  So we set to work carefully prying the plaster off.  Between my boy and I, we made good time getting all that plaster off.  The exposed flue is going to look amazing in that room surrounded by cupboards.

  It was also decided that since one side of the flue had drywall on it, we would remove the plaster from the other side and dry wall that side as well.

Dad also did a bunch of crack filling as well and now the kitchen is paint ready and ready for the cabinets to be built and installed.  Exciting times!

That's it for now!  Thanks for reading!!