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Posted by: Kate • June 26, 2012 I have given you a whole list of reasons why I am going to do a gut remodel of my retro master bathroom , but the main reason doesn ’t have to to with the condition of the tile, the color scheme or the lack of towel bars — I’m gutting my master bathroom to the studs and starting over, because the layout is just not working for how we live. When we first bought our retro ranch house about two years ago, I knew the bathroom was going to need some help. I’ ve spent hours thinking , measuring and imagining how I could fix the floor plan to be more user friendly, and by golly, I think I have a plan… To understand the improvements I’d like to make to the layout of my master bathroom , first we have to take a look at the current layout of the room: master bathroom floorplan" src="https://retrorenovation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/CURRENT-BATH2.jpg" alt="Kate's current master bathroom floorplan" width="500" height...

Master Bathroom Remodel: the Final Reveal! posted by Lori Lange I’m excited to share with you the final reveal for my Master Bathroom remodeling project! Master Bathroom Remodel - the Final Reveal" width="602" height="900" /> As you may recall from my previous posts:   Master Bathroom Remodel (beginning) and Master Bathroom Remodel (Progress), this was a major project.  The entire bathroom was torn out and re-done with all new everything.  It took 6 months from start to finish!  Here’s an extensive peek at what the end result looks like… Left-view entrance… and the closet: We were very excited to get rid of the gold- rimmed sliding door for the closet and replace it with a barn- wood sliding door .  Our designer located some barn wood locally and we had our contractor build the door.  It’s one of our favorite parts of the new bathroom! The barn door slides back and forth from that top rail.  We had a solid wall built behind the door you see there, so...

Use These Buttons to Share! Thanks! Bathroom Update on a Budget For the past year, my husband and I have been living in a 1960’s ranch that belongs to my brother-in-law. The plan is to update it a bit and then list it; although we may decide to buy it ourselves. In the meantime, our goal is to make it look as nice and modern as possible without doing any major overhauls or spending lots of money. So far we’ve ripped out the old carpets and installed hardwoods throughout the entire house, and we’ ve begun painting  the rooms; but we haven’t done much to the three rooms that need help the most: the master bath, hall bath and kitchen. Today I’m going to share with you the first part of our master bathroom remodel on a budget.  Ranch Bathroom Remodel on a budget Delta Faucet part 1 main image" width="753" height="1120" /> If you’ve ever been in a 1960’s ranch then you know that the bathrooms were far from luxurious. The majority were small, and many were cover...

After Before The Original Floorplan Last June, Jeremy and I started the process of remodeling the second floor of our home. There were lots of things that bothered me about the original layout, and you can probably discern a lot of them from the “before” pictures, more of which you can see in West Elm’s post here. Originally, the second floor had a master bedroom , tiny master bathroom , and a weird tiny bedroom that could only fit a twin size bed and had a weird area where the eaves of the roof slanted down to the ground making it almost impossible to keep anything there. The master bathroom consisted of a small crappy plastic tube -shaped shower, a vanity, and the toilet. The shower was the bane of my existence, because the way it was built and assembled left all these little gaps in the plastic pieces  in it that were impossible to get to with cleaning brush, so mold would just grow between the cracks, and the rubber lining along the shower door where the plastic sheets touched k...