Making A Powder Room In A Closet

Several years ago we owned a home in

Door County, Wisconsin

Door County is called the

Maine of the Midwest.

It is gorgeous.

If you click the link above you will

see how beautiful it is.

Anyway,

We found a house that had been sitting vacant

for several years.

The house was stone and in very good shape

but was dysfunctional in some ways.

It desperately needed a powder room

that would service the main living part of the house.

There was a closet that opened off the back hall.

The closet was 3-1/2 feet by 5 feet.

By putting in a pocket door we were able to 

install a functional bathroom.

Now this was BEFORE I knew ANYTHING about

taking pictures (like I do now) THAT was a joke-

So, the pictures were taken with the dreaded FLASH

and the decor, by today's standards, is dated,

but it was great at the time.

I used a poster, cut the hands out 

and applied it to the wall

next to the ceiling.

I then took paint and started 

highlighting and shadowing

the applied piece.

Everyone thought it was hand-painted on the wall.

The walls were lightly marbelized.

I was able to put a small sink in there.

I used a glass shelf to keep things "light".

You can work a bathroom in just about anywhere

if you can get to the plumbing from 

the basement below.

That was the bonus to having an unfinished basement in this house.

The great thing about this house was 

that the lot went down to the channel

between Lake Michigan and the Bay.

We were able to divide the lot into

three sections.

We sold the house with one acre

and sold another acre off and

still own one lot.

Why no one had figured it out before

we did is beyond me....

but that is what happens when you are 

constantly "looking".

LOL-

It's a disease!

I will show you more pictures of this

property in the future

if you are liking these rehab posts.

Let me know~

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