Hick House Makeover: Bathroom 06-11-19

I know you've seen the old bathroom and the beginnings of the new Hick House bathroom, but you haven't seen it 95% complete. So bear with me as I document its progress. I'll spare you the old bathroom with the full toilet that was scrapped and scrubbed into a back porch storage room. We'll start with the room across from the kitchen that Hick chose to become the bathroom.

Here's the bathroom-to-be, back on March 1. It shares the wall on the right with the master bedroom.

By March 14, the free shower Hick picked up along the road had been set in place, as well as the toilet he had over in the BARn.

He had also framed in a wall to make a hallway to the back porch, so you didn't walk directly from the kitchen into the bathroom.

By April 2, HOS had scraped and stained the bathroom floor, and put in the toilet drain pipe, and framed in the tub (which was also picked up on the road free, with the shower). Hick has the door on, and is revealing himself in the medicine cabinet he got for a song at the auction. Not a literal song. They would have made him pay to sing. Hick has a good voice, but his repertoire is limited to "Elvira" and "Daddy Sang Bass."

The free sink was in on April 8, as well as a second medicine cabinet. Yes, that's a sink faucet on the tub, but it was FREE, by cracky!

Other rooms took precedence for a while, but as of June 11, the bathroom was operational, with just a few minor tweaks left, and some fancy free lights, and possibly a different medicine cabinet. And actually a different sink (also free), which was switched out due to the (free) plumbing hardware available.

HOS was finishing some tile on the side of the tub.

He had run the plumbing for the shower and washer/dryer hookup, and trimmed out the wall.

That's the last you'll see of the bathroom, since it wouldn't be polite for Hick to go take pictures now that HOS and family have moved in!

Tomorrow: the kitchen, which most of you have seen already, in fits and starts. It seems more dramatic when before and after are in the same post.