I hope that you caught my earlier post on “Our Bathroom” and today I would like to tell you all how the bathroom project really got started. Phil and I needed some storage in the bathroom in the worst way. We also needed to change the layout of the bathroom a bit so that Phil and I could get ready in the morning without bumping into each other and bruising ourselves, again, on the bathroom fixtures.

We decided to hire a plumber to cap off where our original pedestal sink was attached to the wall and to move the sink into an alcove that was previously empty in the bathroom. This (along with a vanity from Lowe’s) gave us a sweet new sink but left a gaping hole in the wall where the old one was. 

So, one evening while I was at my work’s graduation, Phil got to thinking that we needed a recessed medicine cabinet: 

  You can imagine my delight when I got home: 

This was only the beginning of the transformation. We planned to add two cabinets near the toilet and to put up some bead board around the lower parts of the wall to cover the giant hole. This started with more cutting holes into our house. 

Cabinet 1

    

Cabinet 2 

 

Sarah