Guest Bathroom

Hello! Welcome to the Downtown Luxury Slum!

In the last week or so, we’ve replaced the sad and rotten old porch boards and railing (which I failed to get a picture of). It should all get painted to match the original colour and be back to beautiful soon. They also started on the insulation, but can’t do much until the framing is inspected which apparently can’t get done until we get a sealed letter from the structural engineer. Seriously? Who’s going to tamper with an engineer letter and be stopped by the letter being sealed?

Anyway, once the inspection is done, the insulation should get done, and then drywall, while they continue to work on restoring the old windows.

Deconstructed porch

Rebuilt porch

Construction paper

Cardboard insulation

Shower liner

Expanding foam filler

Some sort of ceiling liner?

Update on the fireplace: I put Andrew in charge because I couldn’t make any decisions. So here’s the plan as it stands:

The fireplace is still going in the front corner of the house
We’re going to create a slightly elevated hearth and frame in the bottom part of the wall around the fireplace
We will likely not use the old surround largely because of safety requirements for non-flammable materials around the fire
Will will likely use an old wood beam as a mantle
We will likely build shelving above the mantle to hold board games and other such fun things.

And I promised you some details about some of the design decisions we’ve made, so here’s the plan for the guest bathroom: