A Visit to Morocco - Via the Guest Bathroom Portal

Finished!

While the Turk thought there was nothing wrong with our guest bathroom, it always bothered me because of the poorly installed bead board walls, wide grout ugly wood-look tiles that were created before wood-look tiles evolved to look nice, poor fluorescent lighting and lack of storage with a pedestal sink.

Turk has removed the toilet, the sink and is working on the walls

The soffitt must GO

The 'sign' it was finally time to rehab the room came when we couldn't get the fluorescent light to come on in the windowless room, rendering it pretty much useless 14 hours a day. Yippee!! However, the Turk was not as excited.

The Turk demolished the room and once he got started, he was in his rehab-groove.  We hired an electrician, plumber and tiler and the Turk and I did the rest. There is a lot of  the 'rest'.

We rebuilt the vanity using 2 IKEA cabinets as the foundation

The house was full of sheet rock mud dust for weeks

I've been enthralled with Moroccan tiles for the floor, and I found wonderful options online. However the small room was going to cost over $500 just for flooring. More searching found ceramic tiles in a similar style and under $200.  They are now available from Home Depot online- go figure.

The room is small, so I searched high and low for a narrow cabinet and sink.  We combined IKEA cabinets and I found the sink online. Small sinks are expensive!  The faucet needed to be wall mounted, and also short so water would flow INTO the sink, not beyond it. Short faucets are expensive!

Turk is hanging the hardware

I've started to appreciate good lighting. It could have something to do with age. I wanted more lighting in this windowless room, so after removing the soffitt and fluorescents, I decided on dimmable LED pendants to go with lighting in the shower and in the main ceiling.

Note the narrow sink and short faucet

The rest of the tiles came from Home Depot - Arabesque for the vanity, narrow trim for the edges, and replacement tiles for where the Turk dropped something and broke some tiles. Do you know how many colors of white there are in tiles?

We are ready for guests again!