A Bath Restoration and Renovation

Welcome to the 132nd Metamorphosis Monday!

Happy Metamorphosis Monday! For this Met Monday, I’m excited to share another fabulous update for historic Tyson-Stedham home in Adel, Georgia.  Dustin, owner of Van de Fleet Designs and Restoration has been bringing this 1912 Arts and Crafts bungalow back to life over the past few months. (If you’re new to this ongoing restoration, you’ll find links to all the pasts posts following this amazing restoration from start to finish, at the end of this post.) Here’s how this home looked before Dustin began the restoration…it was in rough shape with peeling paint, mis-guided additions, and multiple roof-overs.  Over the years, it had been sadly neglected inside and out.

Dustin and his crew have come a long way with the restoration of this soon to be 100 year-old treasure.  The past few weeks they have been hard at work restoring and renovating what was once an old sewing room in the Tyson-Stedham home.  Prior owners had converted the space into a walk-in closet and in the process, they had boarded up a window and cut a doorway to the back porch.

I’ll let Dustin take you through the restoration process…take it away, Dustin. The sewing room was the heart of the home back in 1912 and it was so important that it earned its own specific room with a full window. This room was where the lady of the house would make clothing, bedding, table cloths, and knit.  Other then the kitchen, this room made the house run. The room was a mess and we had to demolish all of its original plaster as it was in too poor of condition to repair.

After this we took out all the door and window trim in the room, cleaned up the massive mess and prepared for the historic transformation from sewing room to a bathroom.

You can see the doorway previous owners had installed leading out to the back porch.  This area had to be restored.

First, we installed our 1 X 6 walls.  The material we selected was knotty pine so we could replicate the look of a vintage space. We wrapped the walls in rustic pine horizontally once again, to give a very antique rustic feel to the room.  We then moved on to reusing the historic 1912 bead board we had to remove from another portion of the house. Once we installed the original bead board it has to be scraped twice and sanded on numerous occasions.

We put in the ceiling, again using 1×6 knotty pine.

The original sewing room had access to the attic so we opted to rebuild the attic access to keep the room as close to original as possible. Before:

After:

Soon after, it was onward to the vintage octagon tile floor…

…and the vintage subway tile in the shower/tub surround.

The window was finished in glass block to take a very traditional space and give it a punch of modernism, which is a great design technique. (see window above on left)

We then placed all of the door and window molding back on.

Another trick to designing small spaces is to use your corners; don’t let them just sit as dead space. I used a corner to install the toilet on a 45 degree angle.  This took an other wise dead corner and made it a part of the bathrooms overall flow.  It was the best solution to not making the bathroom look and feel cramped.

For another vintage surprise, we found a 100 year old mirror frame up in the attic.  It will be painted black and used as the frame for the bathroom mirror that will hang above the vintage sink.  Soon the vintage tub will be set into place, re-glazed and the tub will have a rain jet shower head coming down from the ceiling. The space has come together very nicely and in a timely fashion.

Dustin, thanks so much for taking us through this beautiful bath restoration in the historic Tyson-Stedham home.  I love the blue and white color scheme, the subway tile and the wonderful flooring!  It is absolutely stunning!  I can’t wait to see the tub you’ve chosen for this space! Paint Colors for this bath: Valspar, White Gondola and Blue Promise. Love a great bath renovation? Click HERE to view Mary’s beautiful bath renovation. She used American Olean and it looks just like marble. Amazing! Links to other posts in the restoration series of the Tyson-Stedham home: Part I: The Beginning Part II: A New Front Porch and Roof and Celebrating an award for Excellence in Rehabilitation Part III: Front Porch Completion, Preparation for Painting and Demo of Back Porch Part IV: Restoration of the Back Porch and A New “Dress” Part V:  Painting and Continued Porch Restoration Looking forward to your “Before and Afters” this Met Monday! Metamorphosis Monday: If you are participating in Metamorphosis Monday you will need to link up the permalink to your MM post and not your general blog address. To get your permalink, click on your post name, then just copy and paste the address that shows up in the address bar at the top of your blog, into the “url” box for InLinkz. If you’d like to include the MM button in your post, just copy and paste the Met Monday button to your computer or grab the html code from underneath the MM logo under the “Join a Blog Party” header at the top of this blog. In order to link up, you’ll need to include a link in your MM post back to the host blog, Between Naps on the Porch so your regular readers will be able to find the Met Monday party which ensures your friends and fellow bloggers will receive lots of visits, too. Isn’t that what a party is all about? 🙂 PLEASE DO NOT type in all caps…it spreads the links waaaay out. Thanks!



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