CaCa Brown..

I wish I had more pictures of what this bathroom looked like before renovation. It was all brown.. brown bathtub, brown toilet, brown bidet, brown carpeting.. yes wall-to-wall brown carpeting in the bathroom. I call this color Caca Brown, my father calls it Chocolate Brown. Either way, who really wants a brown toilet?


We had to shift all the plumbing under this raised platform 6" to accomodate a new sink in the place of the brown bidet, everything but the tub was changed out. Electrical outlets added, shower added to tub, tiled wall & floor, replaced boards & refinished wood floor.

moving & refinishing the tub, tiling the floor...

tiling the wall..

This is what it looks like now.

radiators on the ceiling

During demolition we tore down the ugly drop-ceiling in the basement that had been installed in the 1970's when the basement functioned as a mental health clinic. This revealed something I have never seen anywhere: old cast iron radiators bolted to the ceiling provide all the heat for the basement, counter intuitive since heat rises. This may have been done to keep the radiators higher than the boiler so you do not have to drain them every week.


Back laundry room cleaned up. This will become a kitchen.


Back storage area cleaned up. This will become a bathroom