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-We moved into a victorian house about 9 months ago where my wife has opened up an Antique/Vintage Clothing store on the first floor and we live in the upper 2 floors. The house was seriously cosmetically challenged when we moved in and we've been working on it from day 1. Right now I'm finishing up the 2nd floor bathroom.
The bathtub had already been removed by the previous owner. I took out the vanity and sink and the toilet then pulled the cheap paneling off the walls. This is what it looked like after that.
Here's where the toilet was. Just what every DIY'er wants to see - cast iron soil pipe. all the waste pipe had to be removed and I cut the cast iron about 6" from the toilet flange.
New waste pipe scheme. The old toilet flange was just to the left of the cast iron/plastic junction. You can see it's new home about 40" to the left of there where the pipe does a 90 degree turn up and there is towel stuffed in the top. Flange is not on it yet.
LOML did not want a conventional vanity. She wanted something which more closely fit with the age of the house. Uh - actually that would be called an outhouse and it would be a bit nippy this time of year. The bathrooms were probably added around the 20's near as we can figure. She found an antique dresser with a mirror at a nearby antique store and then left the building when I started cutting it up for it's new life as a vanity.
Here it is with the mirror off and the drawers removed getting ready to cut out for the sink.
The sink cutout went well and I rebuilt the upper drawers so they were still useable. Yes - they're about 40% of original size but that seemed better than just making them dead fronts. I also had to put some guides in underneath the drawers to get them to slide out straight instead of flopping all over the place.
Here's the finished installation. As you can see there is still a bunch of stuff to be done around the vanity. The electrical is all roughed in and some of it is working but the outlets need to be installed yet and the temporary flourescent shop light will soon be replaced with a fixture over the mirror.
The next big project is tiling around the tub and shower.
The bathtub had already been removed by the previous owner. I took out the vanity and sink and the toilet then pulled the cheap paneling off the walls. This is what it looked like after that.
Here's where the toilet was. Just what every DIY'er wants to see - cast iron soil pipe. all the waste pipe had to be removed and I cut the cast iron about 6" from the toilet flange.
New waste pipe scheme. The old toilet flange was just to the left of the cast iron/plastic junction. You can see it's new home about 40" to the left of there where the pipe does a 90 degree turn up and there is towel stuffed in the top. Flange is not on it yet.
LOML did not want a conventional vanity. She wanted something which more closely fit with the age of the house. Uh - actually that would be called an outhouse and it would be a bit nippy this time of year. The bathrooms were probably added around the 20's near as we can figure. She found an antique dresser with a mirror at a nearby antique store and then left the building when I started cutting it up for it's new life as a vanity.
Here it is with the mirror off and the drawers removed getting ready to cut out for the sink.
The sink cutout went well and I rebuilt the upper drawers so they were still useable. Yes - they're about 40% of original size but that seemed better than just making them dead fronts. I also had to put some guides in underneath the drawers to get them to slide out straight instead of flopping all over the place.
Here's the finished installation. As you can see there is still a bunch of stuff to be done around the vanity. The electrical is all roughed in and some of it is working but the outlets need to be installed yet and the temporary flourescent shop light will soon be replaced with a fixture over the mirror.
The next big project is tiling around the tub and shower.
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Pat
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