[This was posted a while back on our Instagram channel, but I've not done a full-post here on the blog.]
After successful completion of their first bathroom John and Vanessa contacted me about doing their second bathroom — the "guest" bath. As previous, Vanessa — with a background in retail/design — had a good number of the design elements and ideas sorted, including the idea for hex tile. When approaching the build, we still had a few extra things to sort out, including the reinforcement of a later-addition pocket door which joined a tiled wall — a terrible combination as there could be little/no structural reinforcement to the tile.
After a few design iterations and lots of structural steel later, we had reinforced the door-wall, created a nook for bath products, created a custom walnut vanity and medicine cabinet and worked the hex tile in an undulating pattern up the wall. It turned out well.
In the end, the process included:
- Refreshed electrical circuits — the previous owners did a number on the wiring, so we had some clean-up to do
- Refreshed PEX plumbing lines
- Reinforced structural elements including the pocket-door/tile wall
- Complete demo and sealing — my new process includes sealing all of the interior walls with primer… an odd technique, but it really keeps things fresh and tidy
- Rebuilding of the original Nutone vent
- Installation of operable skylight
- Custom hex tiling
- Custom linear tiling in shower
- Custom walnut vanity and medicine cabinet/mirror
- New luan pocket-door and mahogany trim-out
- New luan/plexi transom window above pocket door (not shown — too bad as it was kind of cool… brought the light from the bathroom skylight into the dark hall)
- New drywall and paint
[As odd as it may seem, sealing the walls up before doing any work really cuts down on current dust and odor]
[Tiling: In process… the hex tile up the wall took a while to execute]
[Nutone fan with new motor… gives new life to the ventilation]
