I am a 63-year-old disabled woman and was tired of looking at this old run down bathroom. I decided to remodel it using pallet wood BY MYSELF. The only purchases were the sink, faucet, and floor.
Time: 1 Months
Cost: $150
Difficulty: Medium
before...25 years old...need I say more?
before...I was so tired of it.
I made a few things that will go on the walls after the paint dries.
Since I was doing away with the cabinet over the toilet, I needed places to put things.
Towel hook from a natural branch for my husband.
A place for the toilet tissue.
revamped a $1 trash can by weaving strips of old material I had laying around.
Made these "just because". No purpose...just to look pretty.
I rebuilt the vanity and added this built-in storage to the outside end.
Glass canning jars mounted to a board with hose clamps added yet more places to put things.
Spray painted my brass colored light fixture black and replaced the glass shades with canning jars.
I did a lot of searching around for that perfect sink and faucet. I did have trouble with the plumbing. It was 25 years old after all and hadn't been touched. After several visits to our local hardware store, I finally got it done.
I made curtains for the vanity to match the sink and trash can. I am thrilled with how it turned out.
The finished product...I rebuilt the countertop by screwing pallet boards to plywood, sanded, stained and coated with marine varnish. Made a new frame for the mirror...did the wains-coating using 2 different stains to give it the aged look since sanding the wood took that away. I used driftwood stain...wiped it off and the added streaks of dark walnut and wiped the excess off. I finished it with polyurethane. I hung all the shelves and other things I made for the walls and then laid the stick-on floor tiles last.
