Little Pink Bathrooms, for You and Me

The little pink bathroom

The weather turned cold and wet in mid December. I couldn't make much progress on painting the outside of the house,so I turned my attention to the little half bathroom off of the back bedroom. The cool retro pink tile in there has led us to call this the "little pink bathroom".

There were several things that needed to be done in this bathroom.

1. The walls and trim needed to be painted.
2. The light fixture needed to be replaced.
3. A combination light switch/plug installed (there is no plug in the bathroom)
4. The toilet needed a new flush kit 
5. The faucet needed to be replaced
6. Cutoffs needed to be added to the faucet (you had to shut the water off to the entire house to replace the faucet)
7. The old linoleum floor needed to come up.
8. The concrete floor under the linoleum scraped and painted before putting down new individual linoleum peel and stick tiles (for now).
9. New bathroom door handle

Painting the bathroom vanity drawers

New Cutoffs

New Faucet

Scraping off the old linoleum

New peal and stick linoleum floor

Although plumbing is my least favorite (and probably my least skilled) remodeling activity, I struggled through. Getting the darn cutoffs not to drip was very frustrating (!) and required multiple trips to the water meter to turn the water on and off to the house.

However, once it was done, the little pink bathroom looked pretty darn good and will be quite serviceable, at least for now.