When I started work on the house, I noticed that the floor wasn’t level. I thought I could level them pretty easily by jacking up the floor joists. There is easy access to the joists from the basement. After I pulled up the flooring, I realized that this was going to be a MAJOR project. […]

The bathroom upstairs had not been used for over 30 years. It was used as a catch-all junk room and was in desperate need of an upgrade. We used an original antique dresser from the house for the bathroom vanity. We chose a toilet with the tank mounted on the wall. We a visitor uses […]

The existing walk through bathroom will be converted into two bathrooms. A small half-bath and on on-suite bathroom for the guest bedroom.

I’m planning taking one of the existing large bathrooms and dividing it into a small half-bath and an on-suite bathroom.

We are trying to keep the style of the vintage house with our upstairs bathroom. The sink will be a re-purposed antique wash table. We are installing a vintage tub and an old style toilet with the tank on the wall.

The plan is to demolish the current small bathroom and expand it into an “on suite” master bathroom.

I bumped into bizarre wall construction when demolishing the downstairs bathroom. Two of the walls were basic lath and plaster. But… two of the walls had three layers. The bottom layer was 1/4 inch plywood. Next came a vintage style of sheetrock topped off with a 1/2 layer of plaster. The 1/4 plywood looked like […]