Basement Pictures - Bathroom

Bathroom

The bathroom in the basement was created from nothing.  It was a section that was previously part of the open laundry space (and hence we have no before pictures - we didn't see a need to take a picture of nothing).  There was no plumbing for a bathroom or anything like that, so it all had to be installed. On top of that, the floor had to be leveled.  There's probably a 5 inch difference in floor height in our basement (which you should be able to see when I do pictures of Miciah's room.  Actually, I think we did a video?  At least we did a comparison shot with Rob at both sides of the room), and apparently that kind of slope is no good for a bathroom.  Really, it's no good for anything, but leveling the floor would have been an unreasonable cost to incur, and they probably would have just leveled it to the highest point, making the entire basement 5 inches higher.  No thanks.  There's not much head room as it is.

Anyways, the point is that the bathroom was a from-scratch kind of thing.  The wall behind the washer and dryer in the previous post?  That's all the piping and stuff they had to install, mainly for the bathroom.

Here's as good as a before picture gets for this space:

Where he's standing is where the washer and dryer were, on a raised cement block.  You can see the water pipes along the wall.  The larger black pipes in the front right of the picture are where the toilet and shower from upstairs connected in.  So it clearly made sense to put the bathroom on this side of the house.  Water pipes were already there.

During construction:

Here's the new, now-level concrete.  Check out the height difference against the back wall.  Crazy!

I kinda liked the green walls.  :)  It's moisture-resistant dry wall.  In this picture you can also see the new window space they created.  It was an old, gross window that needed replaced.  The size didn't work any more for the bathroom space, plus half of it was venting space.  So they completely redid that, too.  (You can actually see the old venting in the first picture in this post.  A big, huge dryer duct went out that window.)

Now:

The bathroom was the bulk of the cost of the basement project, but it's been worth it.  The basement space wouldn't be nearly as nice without it.