Basement Bathroom

There was a Pittsburgh toilet in a wooden stall in the basement. I removed the most of stall and the old toilet. I then installed new water supply lines for a sink, framed a room around the toilet waste line and new plumbing, and hung drywall. The old cracked single-pane window was replaced with frosted glass blocks. A slightly-raised floor was installed to accommodate a waste line for a new sink and to provide a level floor above the old cracked concrete basement floor. I installed wiring for a new light fixture, then hung the fixture on the new ceiling. I installed the new sink and cabinet, then painted the bathroom in a floral pattern to match the sink and cabinet. Last I installed the woodwork – a new doorframe, windoe frame baseboards, and molding around the ceiling, all stained in red oak – and hung the door.





Painted Patterns

I’ve been doing a lot of painting lately. The following are some pictures of some of the more elaborate paint jobs I’ve done.

A painted border in a living room.

A diamond pattern in an entryway and continued up the staircase.

A bathroom with vertical stripes and stamped flowers.

Radiator Covers

These are a pair of wooden radiator covers that I stripped and restained. They were pretty beat up, and the customer wanted them sanded down and stained to match her furniture. The old finish was sanded off, the wood was sanded smooth, then espresso-colored stain was applied, followed by three coats of satin polyurethane. The metal mesh was then spray-painted to match the newly-stained wood.

In addition to refacing existing radiator covers, I’ve also built new radiator covers for customers concerned about their kids touching the hot radiators and/or who wanted to hide their radiators.

Sanding off the old finish. The radiator cover in the foreground hasn’t been worked on yet, and still has its old beat-up finish.

  

  

A radiator cover with most of the old finish removed.

The radiator covers with the all of the old finish removed and ready for staining.

The radiator covers finished in the customer’s house.