I am officially cutting & installing! That’s right, color loves = the gritty is about to get pretty up in my SPRING 2021 JEFFREY COURT RENOVATION CHALLENGE space!
Yeppers, ever since my “JEFFREY COURT IG Takeover” last week, I have actually made some progress on our half bath 🙌 besides precutting all my tiles for installation, I’ve also been intensely mulling over each tile’s placement; mixing all the boxes of the blue Jeffrey Court tile for the bathroom’s accent wall and then mulling and mixing them even more . . . tinkering with them/allowing their variance of hue to ultimately tell a visual story; like a waterfall flowing to the ground.
Now I will say even though I am making headway on my space, this past week wasn’t without its renovation challenges . . . I may have had a slight heart attack when I attempted to install that 1928 vintage cast iron sink, because, well, it’s vintage and [come to find out] doesn’t have all of its bloody parts 😑 so after my little “Jenna of many trades” meltdown, I texted my neighbor [fellow DIY enthusiast] John McKay and he graciously came over so we could MacGyver me a solution!
And in true “John McKay” fashion, he welded me the PERFECT metal bracket so I could ultimately anchor the pedestal sink directly to its platform AFTER I finish tiling . . .
Yeah, as you can see – LOTS of renovating to go and we are down to the last two weeks, y’all! EEK!! And please, please, PLEASE don’t forget to VOTE by clicking here!
Half Bath’s Renovation List:
Ceiling
- Clean
- Paint
Walls
- Remove remaining wallpaper debris.
- Sand & repair for new wallpaper & wainscoting.
- Decide the height of your wainscoting & RedGard the walls up to that height.
- Install new Jeffrey Court tile as wainscoting & grout.
- Hang new wallpaper.
Window
- Caulk around seams.
- Prime.
- Paint.
Floor
- Remove remaining tile debris & old subfloor.
- Replace with new subfloor & Hardie Backer.
- RedGard the entire new surface.
- Install new Jeffrey Court tile & grout.
Pedestal Sink
- Build a platform for your vintage 1928 cast iron pedestal sink.
- Prep accent wall & new platform with RedGard.
- Install new Jeffrey Court tile on the accent wall & pedestal sink’s platform.
- Install said pedestal sink & new sink hardware.
Toilet
- Buy & install a new 12″-rough toilet.
Electrical
- Reroute sink area’s lighting electrical.
- Install new Sazarec Stitches hand-painted sconces.
- Change out those blah-ful beige switches & outlets with bright, white ones.
Other Design Details:
- Spray paint original bath fan and floor grate with brass spray paint.
- Install brass hardware [i.e. – toilet paper holder, towel rack, etc.]
- Hang artwork.
- Accessorize for additional quirk!
Jeffrey Court Renovation Challenge is in partnership with Frog Tape & Sinkology