Building the bathroom

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You know what stinks (literally and figuratively)? When you need to pee and A CERTAIN SOMEONE is hogging the only bathroom in the house for an obscene amount of time. I mean, there is the lonely commode in the basement, but there are spiders down there, man! Two months into home ownership, it was decided: we needed another bathroom.

Luckily for me and Adamo, Adamo's uncle is an amazing architect and contractor who is completely awesome and stayed with us for a week to help us add on a bathroom. (LEGIT, all construction was all done in a week!) In advance, we picked out the wall colors, toilet, sink, faucet, and all that other fun stuff so that (almost) everything was ready for Adamo's uncle! Because I chose such a teeny sink and toilet, we ended up changing around the bathroom plan a bit—the initial plan had the door coming from the dining room (a little awkward during dinner, but whatevs):

I got a teeny toilet so that I could keep my garden window!

We ended up switching the toilet and sink diagonally, putting them against the inside wall, and moving the door to the kitchen side—this way, we also didn't end up needing to worry about putting plumbing in an existing wall (that is probably full of horsehair and magazines and crap). We also left the original dining room door (which was about where it is in the picture above) to add a little broom closet where I AT LAST had a spot for the vacuum!

Either way, we still needed to tear down my pantry and the built-in so that we could get to the dining room from the kitchen.

I wasn't actually at home for the destruction of the wall and our built-in. It was too much for me to handle T_T

But here is a little collage BOATLOAD OF PHOTOS of our progress:

Kitchen before, note awesome garden window!

Beginning to dismantle the built-in

Beginning to frame up the bathroom. Goodbye pantry, I miss you even though you smelled kinda weird

more framing, note the new plywood subfloor

There goes the pantry

no picture of the the built-in smashed up for you, too traumatic for me :(

and now there is a hole!

finishing up framing, including the closet, also that drill was left standing on its bit and that's really bugging me

Insulation and drywall up on the outer wall

Added poop hole, beadboard, drywall, and bathroom fan

beadboard on the outside, drywall nail holes patched, our awesome tile floor!

Btw: this is the tile we picked (but with a light gray grout:

We liked the classic style

Priming the beadboard

painting the beadboard

Painting the drywall, please excuse my terrible technique and instead note that now there is a light

Hole in dining room now patched!

Sink and toilet are in! (Aren't they lovely??)

Adamo's uncle brought his dog, and we learned pretty quickly that the floor was a dangerous place

Finished, with mirror, lights, towel bar and art! 

Check out that sweet antique marble doorknob! The door and door frame are actually what was formerly the pantry door, re-purposed. Unfortunately, one of the original hinges was broken and the other mysteriously disappeared (aka Adamo forgot it in the garage), so we ended up needing to get new hinges.

I still really need to paint the bathroom side of the door; it looks like someone was murdered against it via axe.

Anyway, that is all for the bathroom—however, this project meant that a lot more work needed to be done in the kitchen and the dining room! They get their own posts, so that I can keep all of this straight!