My sister, Karen, came over from Indiana for a week to goad me into getting some work done on my house. One of our projects was getting the downstairs bath operational again. I still have some detail finish work to do, including re-surfacing the tub. This is what the room looked like as of New Year's Day --
This bathroom had been a "junk room" for many years, ever since one winter day when a cold draft coming through gaps in the old dry-stone foundation froze the supply line to the toilet and caused the shut-off valve to disconnect from the line. Fortunately, I was home when it thawed, and so I was able to shut off the water in the basement before too much flooding occurred.Yes, I used a windowed door for this room -- I wanted more natural light to be able to reach the interior/central hall from which one accesses the foyer, the living room, this bath, the "front room", and the stairway.
You might notice the two rust-stains on the door-jamb to the left (fortunately, they will be hidden under the door-stop trimwork). That is from a massive water-damage event several years ago when the supply-line to one of the sinks in the second-floor masterbath froze and burst due to raccoons getting into the lower attic and ripping out a lot of insulation. I was out of town when it thawed (at the time, I worked a 2+ hour drive from home) -- every room in the house, but two, suffered water damage.
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