When I moved into this place the basement bathroom was a shitbox. Really junky. It had an el cheapo vanity, a toilet, and a very plain mirror. There was no shut off valve at the toilet, or under the sink. There was a piece of carpet roughly cut to size and tossed on top of the concrete base. There was no electrical outlet.
When my basement flooded a while back and I redid it, I ripped out a sink that was roughly put in for a wet bar on the outside of the bathroom wall. We saw that it had been installed from the same lines as the sink in the bathroom, and also noticed that the plumbing for the whole thing was done with flex line copper tubing, which I was told is actually not to code. So I ripped the flex line out and the bathroom became completely non functional.
It sat that way for a while, until I finally a few months ago got a friend of mine to help and we redid the whole thing.
Here's the sink being torn out
Here's the layout - I hated it because the toilet rough in put the thing way too close to the wall. You'd have your thigh basically against the wall whille taking a dump. I thought maybe about extending the wall out, but that would not work as the utility area of the basement, and the water heater and furnace, sump pump well thing, they're right on the other side and there's no room to expand it. So we turned the whole bathroom - and the toilet is still close, but not as bad as it was. It also made the redo of the plumbling lines MUCH easier, as they basically needed to go to the utility area right on the other side of the wall.
Put up some wainscot, cleaned up the drywall, and painted it up.
Old bathroom had a drop ceiling, with a light and fan that were on a single switch. We tore out the drop ceiling, drywalled it in, and put in a new light, with an integrated fan. Crown molding around the top. We separated the light and fan at the switch plate so you can turn them on individually.
Installed a new vanity light too - so this small space has three switches on the wall now. Top light, vanity light, fan.
An electrical outlet was added near where the sink would be.
New toilet, new pedestal sink, faucet, tile, etc. Not shown, we added white quarter round along the baseboard.
I had to figure out what to do for a mirror. I went looking for a mirror with a nice white frame trim around it but couldn't find much I liked that wasn't way expensive. I was trying to do this on as limited a budget as possible. I found this tip on diynet - and using the old mirror which I had saved just in case, we framed it up and painted it just as they showed in the video.
Mirror finished
If I did it again, I'd probably use a nice vanity with a cabinet as I think it would look better in this space, and I would have used black grout. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with it. I just need to put a picture up or something on the wall which is pretty bare.
When my basement flooded a while back and I redid it, I ripped out a sink that was roughly put in for a wet bar on the outside of the bathroom wall. We saw that it had been installed from the same lines as the sink in the bathroom, and also noticed that the plumbing for the whole thing was done with flex line copper tubing, which I was told is actually not to code. So I ripped the flex line out and the bathroom became completely non functional.
It sat that way for a while, until I finally a few months ago got a friend of mine to help and we redid the whole thing.
Here's the sink being torn out
Here's the layout - I hated it because the toilet rough in put the thing way too close to the wall. You'd have your thigh basically against the wall whille taking a dump. I thought maybe about extending the wall out, but that would not work as the utility area of the basement, and the water heater and furnace, sump pump well thing, they're right on the other side and there's no room to expand it. So we turned the whole bathroom - and the toilet is still close, but not as bad as it was. It also made the redo of the plumbling lines MUCH easier, as they basically needed to go to the utility area right on the other side of the wall.
Put up some wainscot, cleaned up the drywall, and painted it up.
Old bathroom had a drop ceiling, with a light and fan that were on a single switch. We tore out the drop ceiling, drywalled it in, and put in a new light, with an integrated fan. Crown molding around the top. We separated the light and fan at the switch plate so you can turn them on individually.
Installed a new vanity light too - so this small space has three switches on the wall now. Top light, vanity light, fan.
An electrical outlet was added near where the sink would be.
New toilet, new pedestal sink, faucet, tile, etc. Not shown, we added white quarter round along the baseboard.
I had to figure out what to do for a mirror. I went looking for a mirror with a nice white frame trim around it but couldn't find much I liked that wasn't way expensive. I was trying to do this on as limited a budget as possible. I found this tip on diynet - and using the old mirror which I had saved just in case, we framed it up and painted it just as they showed in the video.
Mirror finished
If I did it again, I'd probably use a nice vanity with a cabinet as I think it would look better in this space, and I would have used black grout. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with it. I just need to put a picture up or something on the wall which is pretty bare.