This bathroom is 30 years old, and it showed.
The linoleum was old and yellowed and missing in some spaces due to having to remove it to repair a leaking toilet. The vanity was old and old-fashioned, white with gold flecks in the vanity top. Nice. The door is a dark brown wood-grain laminate hollow door, not pretty at all. The shower had old white tile (with gold flecks). Some tiles were falling off and the grout was getting moldy. It was obvious the wall behind the shower was damaged because the wall gave a little when you pushed on it. The toilet and tub itself were in very good shape, so they were staying. Pretty much everything else was being changed, except for the lavendar walls which I had painted last year.
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I am going for a Cape Cod style bathroom, with white porcelain and chrome fixtures, white beadboard and my lavendar walls.
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RIPPING UP THE OLD LINOLEUM
PUTTING DOWN THE NEW WHITE CERAMIC TILE FLOOR
PUTTING UP THE WHITE BEADBOARD
INSTALLING THE VANITY
INSTALLING THE TRIM PIECES AND TOILET
TACKLING THE BATHTUB AND SHOWER
THE FINISH WORK AND SOME DETAILS
My new Cape Cod-ish, Cottage-style Bathroom.
Even though the before and after pictures look similar, everything in the bathroom was pretty much ripped out and replaced, except for the bathtub and toilet. My brother and I put in a new ceramic tile floor, new vanity and sinktop, new shower wall, new fixtures, painted the door and put beadboard up. The finished result is my dream bathroom.