Bathroom Part 2, Demo

Demolition


I saved what I could when demoing the bathroom so not much. I did use the door from the stair closet and it's now the bathroom door, it matches the rest of the doors in the hall.

 

 

 

 

 Also slavaged some built-in cabatints that were around the window and where the closest thing to a vanity in the bathroom.

The added bonus was when I pulled the radiator out of the bathroom the supply pipes that  ran on the outside of the kitchen wall also went away.

Part 1

Bathroom Part 1, Design

When I bought the house October  2013 I new full well how much work the house might need.
The main bathroom did not have a shower only a bathtub. Most all of the rooms had hand any work done on them since the 1940's, with the expectation of the kitchen, witch is a different situation all together.  Something need to be done with the bathroom.

The picture makes it look ok. The truth is the ceiling was only about 6 feet tall with the only light on the wall. The room also had a "closet like thing at the back. It was cold and cravenness.  With limited head room and nothing in the room taking advantage of it I was always hunched over.







The bathroom is part of an addition that was made to match the original house. The floors and ceilings don't line up. The result was a small door, about 4.5 feet tall, and a 3 inch step down into the bathroom.  The room as it was conceived was (most likely) not meant to be used, something akin to an attic space.  A new design was called for.

The other side of the wall is a "second"  set of stairs that had been covered and used as a closet. The closet while large is not very useful and useable only from the hall. I decided to use part of it in the bathroom to get some more head room. In order to get the required head room for a shower it had to either go over the stairs by door or into the small dormer. I decided to place the shower in the dormer even though the plumbing will get tricky but I figured that it would be better to have the sink closest to the living area.

I plugged all of the measurements and dimensions into Illustrator. I moved things around until I came up with a layout I liked.



Part 2, here. 

Curtain Rod

While I was welding up the light for my entryway, I also made curtain rod holders. I got the curtain rod from my parents garage, they think it was in their house when they bought it. I did not have a way to hang it so I welded up this.  

Entryway Light

The did not have a light when I bought the house. It does have a switched electrical outlet up about 8 feet up and a hole in the ceiling where a light used to hang. I constructed a wall light. 

 Basically, I welded to pieces of angle steel and a piece of plexiglass. I wired three lights and a plug together so it could be plugged in.

Hinges

If there is one detail in a house that is (almost) always over looked its door hinges espicely old one that get painted over and get painted over. Some have very nice detail that gets lost under all that paint. An angle grinder with a wire wheel and some spray paint.

 Most of the older hinges where brass plated. most of it will be lost getting the paint off with a wire wheel. I did not use a chemical paint remover but that may keep the brass platting on but would probly damage the finish.

Painting them also means that will all have the same finish.

Oh... So Far Behind.

So in buying a house you lose so much time to everything else. So much wiring to fix and plumbing to get up to this century (we are 13 years into it). The new studio space is workable and once the weather breaks I can get it to were i want it. But the thing that bothers me is how is it with for wall mounted lights none of them are the same. I don't know what to do with them. I can't really do a cool door way with one on each side... They don't match.

Making Fire Hotter

I grabbed some galvanized pipe a cheap regulator valve to attach to the air line off the compressor. That gave me a way to crank the air going in to the "fire pit" to make it nice and hot for heating steel. 

Easy to make and effective although it worked the compressor, not something to do with any regularity.    Less than $10 dollars to make and even less time to put together.

I made the wood base just to hold it in place and it acts as a heat shield.