Friday was spent in Lowe's picking out a new vanity, faucet, and light fixture for the half-bath. We brought along the new toilet roll bar to help us match the new faucet and lights to the rest of the bathroom's new accessories. We also selected a color: Valspar's Golden Mist. The paint associate at Lowe's was mentioning that Valspar's been on sale at Lowe's for months. While we couldn't get the new vanity in my compact car, Lowe's will be holding it for us until next Friday.
Saturday morning we woke up ready for demolition. The wallpaper was off, most of the tears in the drywall paper were patched, and now we needed to paint behind the old vanity because the new vanity is 15 inches narrower and there will be space visible between the vanity and the walls.
N disconnected the faucet, and I removed the cabinet doors and drawers. But we met a challenge - the separate pieces of the back splash were caulked so thickly we couldn't even get the crowbar into the space. Even after consulting my parents we were unable to do more than chip at the back splash and despair that an hour and half had passed...
Despondent, I decided to consult Google with "vanity removal." Behold (Warning: I have no idea what the guy is saying - I had my sound turned off. Just skip to around the 1:10 mark and watch):
Would you be surprised at how efficient this method is?
Once the sink was smashed out, we unscrewed the cabinet from the back wall, which we noticed was warped slightly, but the new vanity should hide this. Once the vanity was removed, the last task in demolition was cleaning up the trash the builders in 1986 had neglected to collect: dry wall pieces, dust, and a Whataburger wrapper:
We placed the old cabinet outside for the next three weeks until junk trash collection, and threw the pieces of the sink in the trash. We then patched the new holes and let the walls dry.
Part III will cover the difficulties of painting the half-bath.
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