Ted and I just finished updating our master bathroom and our powder room. Except for the paint color, they don’t look much different because we chose the same materials and colors, but we added new sinktops; new sink faucets; a new 35 x 60-inch mirror over the master sink; a new shower stall with a low-entry base; new shower doors; different, more useful built-in shelving/storage in the shower; and a higher shower seat (the last crew set it at 14 inches–way too low). The different paint color required new towels and throw rugs and different pictures on the walls, so the rooms look different to us, if not to everyone else.
The contractor told us to paint before the crew arrived. Then they could simply finish with touch-up painting and we wouldn’t have to paint around the new things.
Master painter at work.
While the crew was working, we moved to our upstairs “apartment” to be out of their way.
We had a large bedroom, . . .
. . . a full bathroom, . . .
. . . and even a sitting room with lots of books to read.
The construction mess wasn’t too bad. The two-man crew covered all the floors, beginning at the outside door, and they also brought in an air cleaner to pull construction dust out of the air.
The powder room didn’t need much work–only a new sinktop and faucet.
The master bath was a bigger mess. The crew needed to rip out the shower stall. . .
. . . and the sinktop. The blue thing is the air cleaner.
We like the results. Now everything looks fresh.
The master bathroom before. . .
. . . and after.
The powder room before. . .
. . . and after.