A look at the loo.

Unfortunately, when we doing a lot of the work on the bathroom, my camera had a dead battery and a charger that was nowhere to be found.

I think there are some before pictures floating around on cameras other than mine, and I will try to track them down.

For now, I offer after pictures.

This is my favorite part of the bathroom.  It was our first tile job, so it's not great.  But I love the tiles.  I chose a 6" square tile for the center.  We took the same tiles and cut them in quarters to make the outer border.  The decorative border is made of stones that look like river stones.  That curved thing you see on the left is our shower.

This is our pedestal sink.  I love it, but the bottom is slightly crooked and we keep forgetting to fix it.

Our kitchen had an ironing board cabinet that was original to the house.  I really didn't want to close it off, but we were unable to incorporate it into the design of the kitchen.  My solution was to simply close it off from the kitchen and open it up from the bathroom.  I built a cabinet to fit in the space, and it now serves as the only permanent storage.  When I get around to it, I am going to make a door (that doubles as an art piece) to conceal the opening.

These are the rosettes I wanted in the trim.  Usually people match the size of the rosette to the width of the trim, but I like them oversized.  And since I am the head (only) decorator on this project, I do as I please.  Like always.

Here is the window that I trimmed out all by myself while Joe was at work.  I felt like a finish carpenter.  I loved it and I was really proud of myself.

You should also know that this wall used to be blank...no window.  When we were laying out the bathroom, we decided that the existing window was in a bad spot.  So we closed that one off and added a new window to this wall.  There's nothing quite like buying a house and then cutting a hole in the side of it with no experience in such undertakings.  My dad was a big help with that one.

Oh, hey...I may have been wrong.  There IS something like buying a house and cutting a hole in the side of it...

How about cutting a few holes in the roof?!  

The original ceiling of the then-pantry-now-bathroom was level with the one in the kitchen.  Since this room sticks off of the back of the house like its own little entity, it has its own roof.  We thought that was an awful waste of space to have that little unused area between the bathroom ceiling and the roof.  We decided that we would remove the ceiling and the framing supporting it, and just leave the ceiling vaulted.  To add extra light (and since I love them) we added two skylights.

Yes, there is still painter's tape on the trim.  No, we are not done painting the trim.  Yes, we know there is paint on the glass.  We're working on it.

Cutting those two holes in the ceiling was probably the most nerve-wracking project we undertook.  We were on our own for that one.  Granted, we had closed off windows in the bathroom and kitchen, reframed one window opening to accept a smaller winder, and added one window from scratch.  

But it's different when the hole is in the roof.  

ANY project is different when you are doing it precariously perched on a surface which is not only elevated, but angled.

We didn't want to reshingle that little section of roof, so each cut had to be PERFECT to preserve the shingles we were trying to keep.  We also had to make sure not to break any of the shingles as we slowly and carefully bent them back to slide the flashing underneath.  Broken shingles or improperly installed flashing would create leaks, and everyone knows, leaks are bad.

Both skylights went in with hitches no larger than tools repeatedly falling off the roof.  We were certain our caulking and siliconing and flashing installation were a success.  And to help us prove this, mother nature threw a storm at us.  It rained cats and dogs.  Joe and I stood in the bathroom staring at the skylights with a flashlight.

I'm pretty sure we weren't breathing.

The final verdict?

The bathroom with no electricity, no plumbing, no walls and no ceiling also had no leaks.

Yee ha.