First Floor Bathroom Project - Completion

There haven't been too many updates lately, mostly because we've been scrambling to get the bathroom done and the exterior painting as well as a myriad of little other things (like the media room, basement stairs, etc) for the Old West Side homes tour. We made it (with 6 hours to spare)!

NOTE: Many of the pictures below make the porcelain fixtures look sort of almond. Another one to chalk up to my photographic inexperience. They are all as white as porcelain gets (blinding white)..

	Shot of the sink and toilet, along with a good shot of the tiled floor. You can see the blue walls and the hyper white wainscoting. Note: re-using old fixtures isn't as much fun as it seems. I spent a week tracking down parts for the toilet - no one makes any parts anymore for the darn thing.
	This is a lot like the previous shot, but meant to show more of the medicine chest. This is the only part of the "old" bathroom we kept and based on what I know, it is actually original to the house! Note how the "shelf" at the bottom of it flows right into the wainscoting cap board. Why, you'd think a carpenter did this all, but it was just little ol'e me. The art deco light fixtures flanking the medicine chest are from the 1930's and were reconditioned from an architectural salvage yard. In fact, the sink, the toilet and the lights came from salvage yards and the medicine chest is salvaged too. Reduce, reuse, recycle!
	More of the same, but you can see the plumbing a bit better. Not perfect, but I wanted to keep it chrome. If you look, you can see the turn offs are "cross" handles with small porcelain inserts. Looks expensive, but wasn't. The most expensive thing was the sinks faucet set - pretty expensive to look "original"
	And here is the west wall. Until the day before the show, there wasn't anything on the windows. Mark pulled this one off at the 11th hour and it was perfect. You can see more of the floor and we finally had a good place for the commode we bought four years ago! While it's a bit tough to see the towel bar is actually a 1 inch think clear glass rod. Another thing picked up at a salvage yard.

Last updated September 27, 2001