The Ugly Rental: Beds, Bath, and Bonus Room

Hope you enjoyed Le Tour de Ugly! It’s time to show you the nitty gritty on the bedrooms and bathroom (eek!)!

Photos, In Order: Refresher course from last week’s Le Tour de Ugly, Demo-week, and Voila!

Master Bedroom (Both of the bedrooms had a similar look, so I feature just the master)

Replaced windows and trim, painted walls, refinished original floors, and replaced low-hanging fan with sleek low-profile light fixtures.

Plunger, for effect?

New Floor and door for walk-in closet!

Bonus Room

That’s not water damage.  I’m hoping pet (and not child) stain, but the ammonia smell was intense when I started cleaning it.  Blech.

New “luxury vinyl” and a substantially larger window make the room feel larger and cleaner.

Bathroom

Everyone loves magnolias…and mildew…

They were nice enough to leave the blind in the window behind the tile……

More demo + floor repair.  Notice that the sink drain is missing… It came out of the wall with the vanity cabinet…”Hello, plumbers?”

And, Voila!  Basically all is new here! A new frosted glass window with PVC trim is surrounded by my first (and maybe last) tile job.  New wainscotting hides the crazy sheetrock issues that were behind it.  The vanity is a wider IKEA top with custom base (reclaimed wood).  The floor is groutable vinyl tile.  Light and mirror are also from IKEA.

All we did to the bathroom closet is paint, add a cute new star light fixture (my fav!), refinish the wood floors, and trim the closet with leftover flooring that we used for repairs elsewhere in the house for a bit of character.  It’s hard to tell in this photo, but Aaron cut a sweet piece of L-shaped steel for the threshold (step down) between the luxury vinyl and the original wood.  It added just a touch of industrial!

We love how these rooms turned out!  The original floors rock and we’re loving the clean, simplistic look that this house ended up having.

Coming soon!

-Kitchen and Living

-Exterior

Guest Bath Update

Hello Everyone!

It has been a while since we posted about updates on the house!

During our big renovation, we were able to finish out the majority of our guest bathroom, but had this dirty little secret behind the shower curtain:

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From afar, it doesn’t look that bad and we took amazing efforts to keep it clean and as mildew-free as possible for our Airbnb guests.

In April, we had guests (luckily all dudes).  One of the guys went to turn the center knob from the bath setting to the shower setting and it literally fell off into his hand.  Um… getting the wrench out to turn the knob so the guys could shower was not embarrassing at all! [sarcasm]

We quickly ran to the hardware store for a “universal knob”.  The “universal knob” didn’t work because an old, plastic component was so stripped that even the new knob wouldn’t stay attached.  I took photos and went to several different hardware stores and even one specialty plumbing store only to have them spell it out for me: S-O-L without a plumbing re-do.  No plumbing re-do without re-tiling.

SO… we mentioned it to our Airbnb guests for the next few months and made it work with only a shower setting.  We decided to get a quote from a friend at church who is a contractor and it was far less than we had anticipated. We also found a multi-color travertine at a good price, so we went for it!

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The soap niche is a little larger than we thought, but it is the framing from an original window (with an added shelf), so that’s pretty cool!

This was one of the only projects in which we were not “hands on”… which was weird.  Apparently we both struggle with watching others work!

We feel extremely fortunate to have been able to make this update and can’t wait to have guests now!  Come stay with us, friends… and use our shower!

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