The Master Bedroom and Bath

Before the renovation there really wasn’t a master bedroom and bath.  There was only one full bathroom in the house, which we closed off to the main hallway, added a linen closet to and ultimately converted into the master bathroom.

As far as the master bedroom is concerned, there were three different ways to get to the sleeping area before we gutted the joint.  Through the bathroom, through the “third bedroom”/den type area and through what was the closet.  We tore out that closet and the interior door and created an archway that became the entrance to the master bedroom.  We also took about a third of what was the “third bedroom” and converted it into a walk in closet, giving us more than double the closet space that was previously available.  Now there is just one way in or out, unless you count the windows, and it feels more like a true master suite.

    

    

   

The Second bedroom and bath

During the renovation this was one of the trickier parts.  The house, as it was marketed, had three bedrooms, but the middle bedroom had no closet and was the only way to get into what is now the master bedroom without going through a closet or the only full bathroom the house had at the time.  In what should have been that middle bedroom’s closet was a water closet, if you will.  There was a single toilet and a pedastal sink, right behind a set of bi-fold doors.  One of the weirdest things we’d ever seen.

As a result, what is now the second bedroom lost a good chunk of real estate to accomodate the aforementioned water closet.  Combined with a cedar closet that was built out of the opposite corner of the room and a closet bar stuck between the two this room was extremely tiny.

During the design stage we ultimately sacrificed this oddly placed “middle bedroom” and carved it up into a good sized closet for the second bedroom, a walk in closet for the master bedroom and a second full bathroom that the house did not previously have.  It made the flow of the house floorplan a lot more logical.  From an appraisal standpoint this was never a three bedroom house because quantifying a room as a bedroom requires that it has a closet.  Since that “middle bedroom” had a toilet and sink in what was supposed to be its closet it was really just dead space, well, maybe just a glorified den.

Regardless, we reclaimed that wasted space and squared the room off, gave it a functional closet and, ultimately, close access to the second full bathroom in the house.

    

   

Time to do the tiling…

I’m not sure if I feel like Fred the baker making the donuts since we’ve been tiling for more than a week already or if I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day since every morning my day starts with firing up the tile saw.  Either way the house is really starting to take shape with the tile coming together.  Both bathrooms are 90% complete and the kitchen backsplash and entryway are the two largest places left to tile.  Without further adieu, here’s today’s progress:

Guest bathroom tub surround:    

Guest bathroom floor:  

TV picture frame:

More adventures in tiling

Mudroom countertop and backsplash:   

Kitchen backsplash (the start of, anyway):   

Master bathroom floor:  

Guest bathroom walls:  

Introducing the Taj Ma-Tub

That’s the best name we could think of for it…so, we bit off a little more than we could chew with our first ever tiling job…but it came out quite good!

     

Time to tile…

…the plumbers are expected to trim out the house in a few days, so we have to motor and get the tile done near where they need to install the fixtures…here’s where we are at after about two and a half days into it:

Master Bathroom:   

Guest Bathroom:    

The lights are on…well, almost

The light fixtures have been installed and the electrical trim out is about 90%…

    

   

And the bathrooms too…

 

More color…

  

A touch of color…

with the trim work done and the bulk of the interior work taken care of it was time to put some color on the walls!