Another peek into a bathroom remodel project for my son, Andy. Andy is autistic, and is fortunate enough to have his own bathroom off of his bedroom.
A major issue with this bathroom was the door - to access the vanity cabinets one had to enter the room and close the door. Also the boy does not like tub baths - he is an adult and needed a shower. I also designed a large, vertical niche for this shower. Fingerprints on sheetrock, cleaning dusty and dirty baseboards, and my lack of wanting to continue to clean pee off of sheetrock near the toilet (boy problems lol) were also issues that I solved.
All materials / paint / colors used on this project replicate the other two bathrooms I recently remodeled to lend a sense of cohesiveness throughout the home (links below).
Here are some before photos. His sister had the bedroom and bathroom prior, so the pink paint is from that era.
You can see the issue with the door and the vanity cabinetry access.
Dated faucet, vanity and poor lighting. Poor location of toilet paper, and complete and utter lack of storage.
Dated floor tile. The Toto toilet is new, so I removed it for the demolition but then reinstalled it.
If you're wondering about the wide thickness of that wall - it's shared with an exterior wall - and being a builder-grade house they just continued the wall width for the interior wall in this room. This worked to my advantage, as I had that section ripped out to the studs, reduced in width to a standard interior wall width, and installed an awesome barn door in its place.
Here are the after photos - mostly the same angles. Barn door features privacy rain glass that now lets light into the bathroom when closed. The closed door to the left is his walk in closet.
Porcelain tile floor, quartz countertops, paint, largest Moen medicine cabinet they make, recessed. Grohe wall faucet and shower fixtures.
Layered lighting in the room. Plenty of storage in the shower with the vertical recessed wall niche. I decided to install a second recessed wood front cabinet above the toilet for spare backups of deodorant, toothpaste, soaps and so forth, to help Andy separate extras.
I was unable to move the water in the shower to the opposite wall. Due to this, if you take a closer look at the fixed glass shower wall, I had the glass folks cut a 4x6 inch opening, so Andy can reach in and turn on the water and allow it to get warm, without having to enter the shower to turn on the water, and getting cold and wet in the process. Who wouldn't want that?
I wrapped the room in tile, to address the issues of pee on the wall, fingerprints, and so forth. No baseboards by design. Tile height in room was dictated by the height of the light switch. Also I moved the towels to the wall with the shower door for ease in access when exiting the shower, and used nice, big, sturdy hooks to hold them - far more practical for this boy than towel bars.
USA made metal register; same fan timer as used in the Jack and Jill bathroom here here and the first floor bathroom remodel here. Hope you enjoyed this remodel peek - back to crafting goodness with paper!
