A smiling couple stands indoors wearing matching gray t-shirts with "#DEMODAY" printed on them. The woman wears pink safety glasses and has her hair in a braid. They appear to be in a lightly renovated room.
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Master Bathroom DEMO DAY!!!

ByLisa

A smiling couple stands indoors wearing matching gray t-shirts with "#DEMODAY" printed on them. The woman wears pink safety glasses and has her hair in a braid. They appear to be in a lightly renovated room.Hey guys! Today is the day. It’s been in the making for 5 long years and today it is FINALLY here! That’s right. You guessed it. DEMO DAY! We channeled our inner Chip Gains with our homemade t-shirts and my pink safety glasses as we demoed our master bathroom! But in case you missed the first three parts to this series, check out my Coming Soon Post, my Design Sneak Peek, and the Master Suite Renovation Progress post. Remember, this is what we started with when we bought That 70s House.A modern bathroom featuring a double sink with a large mirror above. The counter is gray with white cabinets below. In the background, there is a glass-enclosed shower and a toilet with tiled flooring. The room is well-lit.

And this is what it looked like after we made a few simple updates to hold us over to the BIG reno.A modern bathroom with a double sink vanity featuring silver faucets and a granite countertop. Two mirrors are mounted above, and a neatly folded towel sits between the sinks. A small framed picture is on the wall, and a glimpse of a shower curtain is visible.

Two weekends ago we moved everything out of our bedroom and my closet and into the two guest rooms. We will be living in the blue room until this project is complete. An empty room with dark gray walls, beige carpet, and a ceiling fan with lights. A cut-out in the wall leads to a bathroom with double sinks and mirrors. The flooring is uniform with visible vents and outlets.

This is my temporary closet. Barry keeps telling me this is what I have always wanted, an entire room dedicated to my closet……not really what I had in mind.  A cluttered bedroom with a bed piled high with clothes and a shoe organizer filled with shoes. A lamp sits on a dresser near the window, and a ceiling fan is on a beige ceiling. A white headboard and a curtain are visible.

During the same weekend we removed all of the carpet and scraped the popcorn ceilings.  It looks so much better already, doesn’t it?!An empty room with gray walls and a ceiling fan, featuring bare wooden floors. There is an open door leading to a carpeted area and another door leading to a bathroom with a double sink and mirror. Natural light filters in from a window. A living room ceiling with unfinished drywall panels and visible seams. A light fixture is covered with plastic. A red ladder is placed in the corner, and the walls are painted olive green.

I have never before shown you pictures of the toilet area and shower, mostly because there is not much to see, but for perspective on this renovation I think they are worth sharing, so here you go. Thrilling, I know!A white bathroom cabinet with double doors is mounted above a toilet. It features a towel bar underneath, adjacent to a dark shower curtain. The wall is painted light green, and a light switch is visible on the right side.

That hole was not always there. That was me and my anxiousness making sure there was no plumbing in that soffit.  A small bathroom with a shower area featuring sliding glass doors. The shower has white tiles and a wall-mounted showerhead. The walls are painted in a light green color, and a towel rack is mounted on the side wall. Last weekend we finally got to DEMO DAY!!! I was SO excited for this part! Mostly because I couldn’t wait to see what the bathroom looked like without that dividing wall between the toilet and the vanity 🙂 Because of my eagerness to take it down, one of the first things I removed was the medicine cabinet that was recessed in the wall. Several years ago when we did our mini update we took the medicine cabinet out to paint and I totally forgot I left a little something behind 🙂 So we took a minute to reflect on that! A couple stands close in a partially renovated room with gray walls. They look at each other, smiling, beside a sink. A handmade sign on the wall reads "Lisa ♥ Barry." The floor is unfinished, revealing a work in progress.

Then when I was removing the toilet paper holder on the other side of the wall, I found the remnants of what I think was at one time the wallpaper in the space. Kind of reminds me of mermaids…..maybe because its so iridescent? A person with braided hair wears safety glasses and a gray "DEMOLISH" t-shirt, holding a piece of drywall with a tool. They are pointing to the drywall, standing in a hallway with a lit room in the background.

I’ll be honest, we did have a few hiccups arise, but what renovation doesn’t? Ours mostly surrounded the removal of the vanity and the plumbing. The pipes that supply our double sinks come up from the floor, which we knew going into this. What we didn’t know is there is not a separate supply to each sink. There is only one supply for the left hand sink (Barry’s sink) and a pipe that ran through the base under the cabinets to my sink (the right hand sink). This complicated not only the removal (which we enlisted a plumbers help for) but it also means re-routing the plumbing for our floating vanity.Image showing exposed plumbing pipes within a wall under construction or renovation. Yellow framing supports black pipes with various fittings. Dust and construction debris are visible on the floor.

Originally when I thought there were separate supply lines I didn’t think they would be very visible given our future vanity’s distance from the floor. But a long pipe that runs almost the length of the vanity would definitely be seen. So the pipes will be re-routed into the wall by a plumber…….not us. We also learned the soffit above the vanity area isn’t just holding up our recessed lights, it also houses the vent pipe for our drain. But of course it does! Another project for the plumber. View of a partially exposed ceiling with wooden beams and an exposed light fixture. Wiring and insulation are visible, suggesting ongoing construction or renovation work. Soft lighting creates a warm atmosphere.Finally, while we removed all of the drywall on the dividing wall between the vanity and toilet, we did not remove all of the framing. Since electrical runs through the studs and we will ultimately be relocating it all, we will leave that to the electrician 🙂A room under renovation with exposed wooden framing and insulation. Overhead lights illuminate the space. Walls are partially removed, revealing electrical wiring and plumbing. The ceiling has some unfinished areas.

So now our bathroom looks like this. It already feels SO much bigger and I can’t wait to finish it now!!! A partially renovated room with exposed wooden beams and wiring. The walls are unfinished, and light fixtures are installed on the ceiling. Construction materials are visible on the floor.Just a few more boring details need to be addressed before we can get to the fun stuff, you know, like walls, electrical, and plumbing. But we are making progress! Stick around to see what next week brings and don’t forget to follow me on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram. You can also subscribe to my newsletter so you never miss a post!

 

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