Master Bathroom Remodel

A 5′-8″ tall shower. Shower knobs that wouldn’t turn off and would just keep spinning into oblivion. Linoleum flooring pealing up off the floor. A musky smell. A creepy door above the sink. These were all wonderful features of a basement bathroom we weren’t the biggest fans of. Once we purchased our house it was quickly decided that the bathroom needed a face lift. The unfortunate part was that due to the other work that was needed in the basement remodel, we had to remodel the bathroom last.

Yes, the shower was only 5′-8″ tall and the shower knobs didn’t stop when you needed to turn the water off. The bathroom was very small and by no means passed as being a ‘Master Bathroom’. There was an adjacent closet next to the bathroom that we decided to incorpote into the square footage of the bathroom.

Here’s is everything we did in order.

Removed all the sheetrock from the walls and ceiling

Removed all the light fixtures

Hauled out endless 5 gallon buckets full of broken tile from the shower

Threw away all the fixtures (sink & toilet)

Removed the beautiful linoleum

Removed the wall between the closet and bathroom

Broke up the concrete floor to install new underground sewer lines for the Shower, Toilet and Future Vanity (we completely reconfigrued the entire layout of the bathroom)

Installed new PEX plumbing

Framed new walls

Hung & Painted new Sheetrock

Built custom shower pan (due to the configuration of our bathroom we had to custom build our shower walls and shower pan)

All tile was provided and purchased from Contempo Tile in Salt Lake city

Installed the tile within the shower (We decided to install a 4×16 white tile on the walls and a 2×2 mosaic tile on the floor)

Installed new floor tile (The tile is Marrakesh from Contempo Tile and we LOVE the design)

Vanity & Faucet from Homedepot

Towel Hangers from Homedepot

Light Fixtures from Homedepot

In this pictures you can see the wall that separated the Bathroom and Closet. Adding the closet gained us 3 more feet to the length of the bathroom and it was so worth it.

Little Hefty Henry is in the bathroom after EVERYTHING was removed

All that remains is the old shower base, old piping for the shower head and knobs. The large vertical pipe is our Main Sewer Stack for the house. The collects the toilet upstairs and is also the vent for the sewer lines in our house. This pipe couldn’t move and is the reason why our shower had to be custom built. You do have options of installing a fiberglass shower insert but that couldn’t work for our situation.