NFT: I need to redo a bathroom. Anybody proud of theirs?
 

I have a bathroom that is in dire need of an upgrade. There isn't a ton that can be done with the space, but Christ almighty it's a pain in the ****ing ass to find anything on bathrooms. Kitchens? Massive amount of design ideas, products, features, whatever. Bathrooms? A couple shitty pinterest posts. If anybody is a non-pinterest user and tries to get anything OUT of pinterest (pictures and whatnot), Seppuku suddenly seems reasonable.

I digress.

Anybody have any features or designs in their bathroom they're proud of?

Essentially mine consists of:
A shower (replaced shortly before I moved in I'm not going to mess with)
72" double sink cabinet vanity
A full length huge ass built in vanity above the sink with bypass mirror doors.
Shit flooring
A closet with bypass doors.
Toilet I probably won't replace.
1 outlet (:cuss:)

The wall next to the shower is just sheetrock with crappy trim that is starting to show some effects from moisture.

I need to get some more electricity in there and probably different lighting. I'm guessing the electricity will require the big wall vanity to come out. If it doesn't I need to do something with the bypass mirrors regardless.

Some dicknose along the way painted all the wood in the house (trim, doors, whatever). Which I wouldn't hate so much if they would have chosen to SAND THE POLYURITHANE OFF FIRST. The ****s. They did not, so it all looks like dog balls.

I need some ideas, if anyone has any.

any windows?
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Negative.

1. sell your house
2. find house with nicer bathroom
3. buy house

Nah man. I kind of went crazy and spent a mountain of money on a kick-ass kitchen. I don’t think I could move somewhere with a dumpy little kitchen. I’m stuck here.

This is my bathroom. I added a towel to the back of the toilet, I feel that really spices it up. Maybe that's something you'll want to consider as it's a cheaper alternative.

We spent around $8k when we redid ours back in 2018. It was a handicap bathroom with no door to the bathroom just a wide open view to the toilet from the bed. Contractor built a new wall, added a door, tile floors, granite, glass shower door (expensive by itself) painted, textured.

The previous shower was not usable, had no shower door. Not even a curtain. Looks pretty sweet in there now. Has a nice seat in the shower and built in niche as he calls it. Most of that $8k was just the shower.

Damn son, you need to change your diet and work on your aim

I'm remodeling 3 bathrooms this month. Tile shower surrounds new marble floors, upgrade the shower doors new vanities new lighting etc. If you weren't so far away I would come do yours.

The thing to do is google image search for tile showers. Find what you like and then pay a guy. The electrical is easy when you have everything torn out.

So your not actually "redoing" your bathroom since that would entail gutting the whole thing and starting over from scratch.

My suggestion would be to hire an electrician and have him run the power. After that, if you're handy, you should be able to to handle wall repair, flooring and paint.

You son of a bitch. You're the one that just moved out of my rent house!!! You can kiss your ****ing deposit goodbye!

I gutted and replaced my entire bathroom except for the tub. Did it all myself. Really wasn't that bad. Tiling sucks ass though

Im going to be putting rollouts in my cabinets under my vanity, so I don’t have to lay down to grab shit out of it. Also put up some wainscoting in the kids bathroom and put in wood floors, that helped a lot. I can text you some pictures of that if you want to see them.

This is what I plan on doing this year in my master. Convert my shower stall to a towel closet and take my tub out and put in a nice tile shower.


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We like to look at new model homes in the area and wainscoting and wall paper look really good. You might try looking at home builder web sites for ideas. Wainscoting especially is a nice way to add elegance to the walls if you have a lot of wall space. There are so many different patterns you can make and it’s not too expensive to add. I completely remodeled almost the entire house my mother in law bought and she has a big first floor bathroom that just had this big empty wall that really benefited from wainscoting and wall paper.

It'll buff out.

With gasoline and matches.

We remodeled ours at our old house, then sold it.

It resembled a high-end hotel bathroom. Huge Onyx shower, double vanity, slate-like tile, etc.

I wasn't a fan of the huge shower believe it or not. It seemed like their was a lot of wasted space, and it cost a fortune. The glass needs constant cleaning.

When we redid the farm house I put in a large 6'x36 bath tub with Onyx surround in the main bath. More than large enough, and a lot more usable. We can give our toddler baths, etc.

Let me know when you need the floor. I get the rigid-core waterproof plank at cost.

Wish I knew how to post pics. We remodeled ours in 2018. Feels like a resort bathroom now. Went all tile on the floors and added a jacuzzi tub. Went from Jack and Jill sinks to one large sink with large mirror. Added cabinetry and lighting. Love it. Not sure on the cost since we did a whole house remodel.

Go to Menards- they have rows of bathroom models.

I did tile flooring, new vanity, new light fixture, new fart fan and new shitter. Left the tub shower in place. Did it all myself, and after 10 years it still looks awesome. Pretty proud of it.

We're going to do the Master bath in a few years. Neither of these are big bathrooms, so there's not much space to work with. Mostly updating fixtures and flooring, though my wife wants a tiled shower in the master when we get around to it.

I'm actually kind of looking forward to the job. I don't hate tiling, as long as I don't have to do it for a living.

Ours. 40x60 standup shower. New toilet new everything. What you can't see is the door that was between the vanity and the toilet. It took up a lot of room, and made the room book cluttered. We also took down a soffit.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d9c2925379.jpg

I've redone four bathrooms over the years, and my rules of thumb are;

1. You can never have too much lighting. A brightly lit bathroom is a happy bathroom.
2. The most important single item is the shower faucet. In our daily-driver bathroom, we got some awesome faucet where you can adjust the pressure/water flow without changing the temperature, and it's worth every penny.
3. If your shower is separate from the tub, don't go cheap on the shower base. The cheap plastic stuff won't last, so tile it and build it well.
4. Does anyone use a bathtub any more? I'll watch those home shows and fancy bathrooms always have a standalone soaking tub, and I wonder who uses them. Maybe my wife and I are outliers, but we'd much rather have a larger shower space and no tub.

That's exactly what we did. We got rid of the existing tub down to the concrete, replumbed the shower and tiled everything.

Did you expand the shower to be a big multi-person orgy shower? Our time share place has a really big shower with two different shower heads, and even though I've never taken an actual orgy shower in it, I like the room. I wish we could do that in our house, but the layout doesn't work in our main bathroom, and the other bathroom is all period with a 1920s look and kind of needs the tub to pull it off. (And we never shower in that one anyway.)

Stand alone vanity, if you can ditch the closet do so and use simple but cool looking towel storage. If you keep the double sinks do individual mirrors not one big one. Vynil plank flooring is great in bathrooms and wet areas.
If you can do full frameless glass doors for the shower.
Most of my remodels this is the basics we recommend.
If the shower is a pan and you can do tile on the walls that's a huge bonus for looks.

My wife and I are getting ready to interview a few contractors to re-do our Master Bathroom and closet area. That shit ain't cheap, especially when you are as old and worthless as I am at doing anything myself. :)

Currently house shopping, looking mostly at new construction or full remodels. These space eating, freestanding bathtubs seem super popular, at least with one particular builder. They're an absolute deal killer for me though. Give me that space for nearly anything else but a tub.

would love to know what to expect to pay for wainscoting installation......

Have a room that will probably need 300-400 sq feet.

True, during the boom, every builder was putting the damn things in and they're a pain in the ass to install. When I switched back to service, most people use them to store towels in or don't use them at all. Lots of people have them taken out all together. I have a Jacuzzi tub in my master that's been used 4 times in 2 years. Our bath was just remodeled right before we bought, so we're leaving for now

We started ours mid winter. Had to tear the subfloor and laundry shoot out. Moved the toilet and sink. Of course the wife wanted some custom vanity so that was a pain but her brothers are plumbing wizards and made it easy.

There isn't dick around here for contractors. Come on down!

I might make a suggestion on yours though. If you're going to tile any shower surrounds, take a look at Onyx. Its a epoxy type material they roll out to look like granite. You just glue it to the walls and it looks great and is easy as hell to clean (especially compared to grouted tile).

My kids bathroom (which anybody that visits will use) was originally a tiled surround then some **** PAINTED (badly mind you) the tile with some....shit. It was awful. Put in an acrylic tub and onyx surround and it looks really nice for not a ton of money.

Who the **** paints tile?

You're correct. Not a full renovation, but closer than I'd like. Plus there will undoubtedly be a mountain of costs I don't see coming so there's that.

I'm hiring that stuff done. My deal is I work a ****load of hours. More than I want. And they return pretty well. So the margin on home improvement projects is pretty slim. Especially since I'm not particularly good at that kind of stuff. Plus my knees are shot, so I'm not going to spend days on my knees laying tile.

Send them.

I might also recommend onyx to you. See above.

Can you text me a picture of your renovated bathroom.

I'll be in touch on the floor. Do you have a website on that flooring?

Good post.

I'm not messing with the shower. Someone before me put in an onyx stand up shower with a rainfall head and a seat. It's staying.

As a minor anecdote, when we redid our shower in our daily-driver bathroom, I told the contractor that I wanted five or six recessed cubbyholes in the shower, and I wanted them to be completely random. Make them all different sizes, put them in random locations from waist-height to face-height, and I don't want any of them to line up with each other.

It was a high-risk design move, but it worked out great. They range from maybe 4x6 inches (perfect for holding my razor and razor blades) to 9x12 inches (perfect for holding shampoo for my wife). Being all different sizes, we found a good use for all of them where each perfectly holds something.

The outcome may depend on the contractor and randomness, though.

I think they're popular everywhere, but mostly as a sales tool for builders. Every house on HGTV seems to have them, and I really question the value compared to the real estate they take up. Maybe some people use them a lot, and they're often nice architectural features, but I bet most of them sit unused 362 days per year.

I'm going to presume that's in conjunction with a stand up shower or something?

Yeah, that'd be a deal killer for me.

On the tub line, I had tub showers for a long time. Have one for the kids.
They're fine whatever. But as I've gotten older, I would hate to be using one every day. There are a remarkable amount of injuries of people slipping stepping out of the tub. Last thing I need to do is brain myself on a towel rack when there is another option. The standup shower thing is where to go.

My wife's dad fell in one 5 or so years back, landed on his ribcage (which is lucky as hell) and was pretty stoved up for a good long time.

Fat boy doesn't need that in his life.

Looks like you've got some IBS issues.

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Lowes has a thing where you can design you own tub/shower set up. It may be worth a look if you have limited space or can reconfig a little bit.

I've had all 5 bathrooms remodeled since purchasing my home in 2003 and two of them I've had torn out and remodeled twice. In the past month, the shower valve in my recording studio burst and sent about 60 gallons of water into the garage below. I had my contractor tear out part of the tile and shower around the valve to replace it, only to have the replacement malfunction, so it had to be replaced, again.

Shortly thereafter, about a gallon or so of water per day leaked into my garage but I've been so busy that I haven't had a chance to have him out to take a look. He was out today, tore out the ceiling, only to find a dual floor for some unknown reason, tore that out and found that the drain pipe was sloped upward, not downward. He replaced that entire section but water was still leaking when the shower was turned on, so he tore out a section of the wall in my studio, only to find part of a copper joint still leaking. That was repaired but now, I have a 4' x 6' gaping hole in my wall and an 8' x 8' hole in my garage ceiling, neither of which should be closed for a couple of weeks while the joists and framing dries out.

So, all of that said:

1. Tear down to the studs, if possible. Be sure to check your copper, thoroughly. Replace anything that looks janky now.

2. Before putting up cement backer board (Please! Do not use hardibacker. It's cheaper but far less efficient), make sure your walls are furred up and square. It's probably not a big deal in Kansas but in LA, especially on a hillside, it's a major, major deal and the difference between a shower door fitting or not fitting.

3. Old School guys like to Hot Mop the shower pan and besides the smell, I'm good with that. I had one shower done with the Oatey Gray Shower Pan Liner and yep, you guessed it, it leaked and the contractor had to tear out and redo the entire shower.

4. Don't skimp on the glass. Most places will give you at least a 25% discount off the shower doors and walls. I'd definitely recommend the thicker glass: Don't skimp and go 1/4". It feels like a toy. Go 3/8's and if you can afford it, 1/2". It's a lot heavier but they'll use heavy duty hinges, which will make it feel much lighter than the actual weight of the glass.

5. I like natural tile, so three of my bathrooms feature 4x4 Travertine walls with Chair Rail and "Feature Strips" of either glass or mosaic Travertine. They look very "Roman" or "Spanish" but I really dig that look. I also prefer 1x1 Travertine mosiac tile for the floor because not only does it give the shower some "vibe" and color, the very slight variations in height make it easy for my toes to grip and feel comfortable.

6. Don't to crazy with a high end shower panel with jets and all that nonsense, especially if you have hard water (our water is the worst!). It just causes problems with the jets and replacing the valve means tearing out the tile.

7. Find a common name brand shower valve that looks good to you and go with it. My wife wanted all this "high end" stuff when we first remodeled and whoops, all the Grohe products failed within 10 years, whether it was kitchen, master bath or unfortunately, my studio shower bath. I replaced it with Moen, which are engineered in such a way that if the cartridge goes bad (the hot/cold knob), it takes about 10 minutes to replace for anyone that's ever held a screwdriver. No advanced engineering degree required.

8. As for your shower floor, go with whatever your wife likes but we prefer natural tile or at least tile with some texture and grip. Marble scares the bejeezus out of me because I just know that I'll slip, crack my head open on the shower dam and die in a really stupid way, so anything slippery and shiny is out.

9. Don't be afraid of cool glass mosaics, travertine mosaics, etc. It looks like it would be difficult to install but they're on mesh so in some cases, it's even easier than cutting ceramic or travertine.

I hope this helps and good luck!

Great stuff. Thanks Dane.

I tried that but there isn't much you can customize.

We redid master bath and new kitchen and decks, removal of popcorn ceilings and repaint plus a bunch of windows. Looks great. I wrote checks more than annual income.

What did you do to the Master Bath?

One more thing: Don't skimp on ceiling fans and make sure they're properly vented so that the exhaust is vented outside. You'd be surprised but I know of people out here whose bathroom fans were vented to the ceiling joists: No true exhaust.

I replaced the old fans in my house with Panasonic Whisper Fans and while they aren't truly "silent", they're a million times quieter than the average fan, which is nice (at least for me). Since the room doesn't have a window, I'd recommend two fans: One over the toilet and one over the shower.

I have a pair of these in my Master. They're extremely efficient and easy to clean.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Panasoni...-203762030-_-N

Also, don't forget to purchase Glass Light covers for your recessed lighting. It'll help to prevent moisture from getting into the fixtures.

This is an example, although I found them for a fraction of the cost at USA Lighting.com

https://www.amazon.com/4055WH-Recess...654149&sr=8-21

And whatever you do, add more lighting than you'd ever think you'll need. We put in 12 six inch can lights and a vanity light that spans the entire two sink fixture and we still ending up adding a Solar Tube for even more light.

Ugh.

Don't get me started on venting ****ing fans. Whatever ****lehead installed the exhaust fan currently in the bathroom just put the fan in the ceiling and went ahead and put the insulation overtop of the exhaust. What the **** does that do? Jesus ****ing Christ.

I didn't even realize it until I thought my roof was leaking. The ****ing rafters are pretty tight for my gigantor ass. I have to go a fair ways on my knees, which are junk. But I freaked the **** out and got up there. Top of the insulation is bone ass dry. So I go looking. Start trying to find walls and shit. Where the **** is the exhaust fan in the bathroom....Kitchen....Exterior wall....WTF? It's got to be right here. Call Wife - turn on fan. Here it the **** is. Right here under this god ****ing insulation. It exhausted the steam right into the insulation where it ran in to the other room.

The amount of profanity I laid down in that attic was....we'll call it substantial.

What in the dick shitting ****

Yeah, it took me awhile to figure out WTF was going on because it never even occurred to me that it was even a possibility.

Phil made Me a killer bathroom about 10 years ago, and it’s held up great and it’s really freaking awesome. It has a **** bench in the shower, glass block, and tile everywhere, complete with a custom concrete countertop. I’d give him a call

I’d love to but I live in ****ing nowhere. I doubt he’d sign on for this commute.

Took out floor, toilet, vanity and shower..

Tiled floor and new tile shower to replace the old Fiberglas unit from 1985

Floor had a hump because of a high joist so he had to level it first

Old school tile guy who built the base in place

Vanity matches the kitchen cabinets we had built by a Mennonite cabinet maker, cherry, slide out shelves...countertop is some super $$ quartz, Moen fixtures cause they last forever and even I can replace the cartridge

New toilet is taller....as you get older you appreciate that more and more

Also as you redo bathroom think access when you are 80.....ageproof the bathroom now, seat in shower and great hand bars

Fortunately the person that lived here before me got old and spent the old guy money. Talk toilet. Seat in shower. Handle bars. It’s actually one of the reasons that we bought the house. Intend to retire here.

Tall toilet. Oh yeah. Put those in in the new house

OH MY IT HAPPENED

Make the whole bathroom a walk in shower with built in shitter

You just stomped on my dreams!!! Is it really that bad?

We just finished an upgrade on a pretty small bathroom.

I don't like clutter in the bathroom so we downsized the sink vanity by a few inches, the new gap next to the wall is workable.

Replaced the cabinet with a design that prevents anything being placed on top avoiding that temptation not creating another area hard to keep clean.

Replaced the multi-light fixture with a brighter single bulb fixture that actually sells as a porch light. Looks good and blends in.

Sanded and meticulously repainted the old existing heater/fan unit cover, cleaned the interior thoroughly.

Replaced the flooring. I read that the optics of which way you lay them has an impact on the room appearing larger.

Replaced all the trim.

Upgraded the toilet to adult size. My favorite.

Did it a myself, saved some $. Have had positive reviews from friends.

We recently added new sinks,countertops,toilet and shower.We were going to do away with the jacuzzi tub but opted to keep it.

Also went with ONYX shower and very happy we did.

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I’ve got some people working up some bids. We’ll see if I’ve saved anywhere near enough money. Holy crap some of this shit is expensive.

I redid all 3 bathrooms in my house

1998: master bed room bathroom toilet/vanity and shower/ no window

Gutted everything and installed new floor and walls. Wonder board around the shower and encased the whole thing in tile. New vanity toilet and shower and Put in a heater/fan/light combo in the ceiling

2001: bathroom #2 bathtub/vanity and toilet

Gutted the floor and removed the bathtub toilet and vanity. New floor and tile. Wonder board around bath tub and new tub with tile et al new toilet and new vanity

2009: bathroom #3 toilet and vanity

New tile floor and vanity. Left the toilet.

The first two bathrooms were expensive but were done the right way. if you stay on them (recalk your shower and bathtub) they’ll last a long time

I couldn’t imagine what doing it now would entail. I replaced my hot water heater myself in 2003 and it cost me $400 total for a 50 gallon hot water heater and parts. I drained and left the old one at the curb and the garbage guys took it. And no permit.

Now? Lol I can’t do that anymore. No leaving hot water heater at the curb and you must get a permit. It cost me $1,400.00 for a 40 gallon hot water heater install in 2015. (With permit and disposal)

The permit nazis have over taken my town

Pinterest is your tool

Pinterest is the bane of my existence. Did you know that if you find a picture of a bathroom you like on there and want to save the picture, zoom in on the picture, send the picture to someone else or, well butt****ing anything, they have some ****ing voodoo wizardry that won't let you do a goddamned thing to the media?

****ing bane of my ****ing existence.

We don't have a water softener, as there's never been a place to install one in our home, so the hard water (DWP) pretty much destroyed the shower panel, bathroom and kitchen faucets along with shower heads.

I purchased Grohe faucets for the master bath and kitchen that were about $450 each back in 2003/2004 because my wife wanted the Master bath faucets to match the kitchen faucet. They barely made it six years due to the water. The handles would get stuck and freeze. The hard water became visible on the fixtures but using a hard water remover like Lime Away also removes the finish.

As for the Grohe shower panel, the valve began leaking about 5 years after installation and the shower head became completely useless. And unless you turn on the jets at least once a week, they'll clog and become unusable because the sediment just sits in the head and eventually blocks the water.

To top that off, the Grohe cartridges are nearly impossible to replace and as I mentioned earlier, I had to have a 2' x 2' area around the valve ripped out so that the valve could be replaced. Such a waste of time and money.

That said, I haven't had any issues with my Maxx Jacuzzi in the master, probably because the jets are much larger than the shower panel's jets. I'd recommend two shower heads in the master bath as opposed to a shower panel, at least for DWP water.

We had several metal rain shower heads that just got the point where they were so clogged that I had to replace them. Instead of spending a ton of dough on replacements, I just started buying 8" rain shower heads on Amazon for $30 dollars or less because it would have been a waste of money to purchase something more expensive. These look good and appear to be metal, so we aren't losing anything visually.

Such is life with extremely hard water...

I take it you've never purchased and assembled something from IKEA?

:evil:

LOL

Correct, sir. I live a hell of a long way away from one.

The only thing harder than your water Dane, is my penis while seeing you post on CP.

As always, nice to see you.

Aren't you the lucky one! :p

Dad bought one of these for the office. It is servicable. You still get hard water spots, but they wipe right off as opposed to bonding to the metal.

I prefer the water softener at my house, but he didn't want to monkey with it and it works well enough. We bought cheap shitty fixtures for the office and they held up.

Might be worth a shot. You don't have to pay for too many fixtures to get to breakeven to give it a shot.

https://easywater.com/

EDIT: Shit - forgot the link.

If you suck any harder you're going to get lockjaw. LMAO

If you want pinterest ideas I have a fiance who is on Pinterest. I could post some pics of the bathrooms not my fiance.