Project 5: Fix the upstairs bath

The second full bath is located upstairs between the second and third bedrooms. The bathroom shared a door with the second bedroom, but the door and the frame of the door were recently torn out of the wall:



Besides the ugly cabinets, sinks, faucets, mirrors, and light fixtures...wait, is there actually anything good about this bathroom?

The tub is decent, and is draining better than it used to, although we would prefer that it wasn't so slow. The toilet isn't in as good of shape as the downstairs toilets. However, the floor of this bathroom was tiled with the same tile as in the master bath and half-bath. A tile near the toilet is loose, and the materials needed to repair it were found underneath the second sink. It appears that McVicker thought about fixing this problem, but then laziness overtook his good impulse. Also, this room isn't currently painted any real color, which will make painting it easier, and I appreciate the fact that the wallpaper I suspect used to mar this room is now gone and we didn't have to do the work ourselves.

Once the wall where the door was is filled in, N and I are thinking of adding bead board to hide most of the wall, as well as replacing the baseboard in this room and the bedroom, since new baseboard will be needed to go along where the door was previously.

We have bought the color of paint for this room: Valspar's Temptation in flat enamel. The ceiling in this room was repainted a true white (as noted in the description of Project 4). Financially we have to postpone any further renovations until later in the year. We have replacement light fixtures that my mom gave us, and will consider what type of mirrors and vanities we would like to install in the future. We still have 90% of our fence to replace, as well as new carpet sometime this year, and those are priorities.

The upstairs bathroom, picture from the real estate brochure:



The sinks are the same as what was in the half-bath downstairs. This bathroom features a cultured marble counter/sinks, and faucets that one can still buy at Lowe's for $14.99. Both of the sinks have a slow drip that is causing a calcium/iron/whatever build up on the hardware. Anyway, here's one of the nasty-looking sinks:



The broken tile:



Whenever we can replace the vanity in this bathroom I would like to, if only to make accessing the toilet tank easier:



Isn't that a great design?