Our bathroom before

The bathroom when we moved in was ugly and not functional at all. Our house was a rental and the previous tenant was wheelchair bound. The landlord ripped out the nice vintage cast iron tub and replaced it with a roll-in shower. Fortunately they left the tub in the garage (probably because it was to heavy to move anywhere else).

The bathroom was completely covered with wood paneling. They added this lovely built in sink/cabinet. We knew that it had to go.


I had plans to paint the walls and remove the cabinents. We didn't really think we would have to gut the whole bathroom. Just remove the shower insert and plop in the old tub. Easy right? When we pulled the shower insert out we discover lath and plaster. So we kept removing plaster and then realized we would have to remove the ceiling as well.

After Brian pulled out the sink and took down the mirror, we discovered a space for a recessed medicine chest and built in shelves. Pretty neat! It was also obvious that there had been a pedestal sink at one time. Perfect as we were intending on putting one back in.

Down to the lath and plaster walls.

The ceiling. When we pulled back the vinyl flooring we found really neat pink/peach tile with a black border all the way around the bathroom. It was Hermosa by Gladding McBean & Co and was probably laid down in the 30's. Really high quality tile. We really wanted to keep the tile but it was in bad shape.