I have been working on the main floor powder room for some time. The powder room is quite small. I wanted it so.
I’m not a carpenter, as I’m sure is clear by now, and I take lots time to figure out how to do something and then make many mistakes, so I take lots of breaks to psych myself up to keep going. Sometimes those breaks can be for weeks or more.
Here are some photos of work I’ve done to date:
I’d like to say the room is almost done, but aside from the obvious of installing toilet and sink, I have other finishing tasks to do:
– the window frame – is inset, so I have to build an ‘extension’ frame of some kind, and then put on header and casings.
– “crown” moulding – I haven’t caulked this in yet because I probably have to remove the piece that sits where the window header will go.
– vanity – this is going to be a dresser I had when I was a child, so I have to drill holes into it and modify the back to accept the plumbing etc. I find this intimidating and I have stress about otherwise destroying a perfectly good antique dresser.
– pocket door – for the life of me I cannot hang it by myself. It will not go onto the sliders. I’ll have to round up someone to help.
– door trim – can’t be completed until the pocket door is in. Then I have to shellack it.
– after the fixtures are in I can install soap dish, toilet paper holder, towel rack etc. I purchased those from Rejuvination, so they’re ready to go on.
– switch plates – I bought some fancy white ceramic and chrome ones, but noticed only after I’d bought them that I will also have to change the actual switches to white, in order to match. Right now they’re builder’s beige. I can do it myself, but not prior to ‘inspection’ of the electrical and I don’t want to pay the electrician to change them.
– blinds or curtains – I might try and install plantation shutters (as I call them in the frigid north).
– hang a fern
– hang something art-like; pictures or posters etc.
An example of the blinds I’d like (and similar to what was on the original part of the house when I bought it):
