The downstairs bathroom
Pic of the downstairs bathroom. For those of you who know the house, the window in the bathroom used to be the exterior door at the top of the porch stairs. We are going to move the stairs over towards the rear of the house and then add a step or two down to the garage. The flat area of grass where the stairs are now will be a perfect terrace seating place for an outdoor table and chairs and the grill. If the pocketbook allows it will be a slate terrace.
I digress. The photo below is the downstairs bath. pocket door framing is not in yet so that we can accommodate the shower pan and the interior walls, either stall or tile. The shower will be on the right with the commode and sink on the left. Not a big bath, but big enough to work. We'll have to put up the exterior bathroom walls before insulating so the foam has something to stick to! We can experiment with the board walls this way as I am still not sure how the walls will be. (beadboard below and v-match or tongue and groove above? All tongue and groove, or all beadboard for that matter.)
The groove in the floor marks where the chimney board wall was. I was wracking my brain trying to come up with some solution for filling in a 2" gap between floors and I decided the easiest way was to just open the gap up to a medium board length and then inset a board to make a flush division between the floors. You can see the yellow board right there, waiting to go in. When the floors are sanded and painted, I don't think anyone will notice so much. One of my more expensive options was to floor over the whole thing, but I really like the floors and the colors on them as well. (well, the green floors upstairs and the blue floors in the parlor at least.)
Pic of the downstairs bathroom. For those of you who know the house, the window in the bathroom used to be the exterior door at the top of the porch stairs. We are going to move the stairs over towards the rear of the house and then add a step or two down to the garage. The flat area of grass where the stairs are now will be a perfect terrace seating place for an outdoor table and chairs and the grill. If the pocketbook allows it will be a slate terrace.
I digress. The photo below is the downstairs bath. pocket door framing is not in yet so that we can accommodate the shower pan and the interior walls, either stall or tile. The shower will be on the right with the commode and sink on the left. Not a big bath, but big enough to work. We'll have to put up the exterior bathroom walls before insulating so the foam has something to stick to! We can experiment with the board walls this way as I am still not sure how the walls will be. (beadboard below and v-match or tongue and groove above? All tongue and groove, or all beadboard for that matter.)
The groove in the floor marks where the chimney board wall was. I was wracking my brain trying to come up with some solution for filling in a 2" gap between floors and I decided the easiest way was to just open the gap up to a medium board length and then inset a board to make a flush division between the floors. You can see the yellow board right there, waiting to go in. When the floors are sanded and painted, I don't think anyone will notice so much. One of my more expensive options was to floor over the whole thing, but I really like the floors and the colors on them as well. (well, the green floors upstairs and the blue floors in the parlor at least.)
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