I’m re-doing my whole bathroom?
Written by Scott on April 17th, 2009
So I’ve moved into my boyfriend’s recently, and he’s given me one of the 2 bathrooms to completely make over. It’s a pretty small bathroom; a walk-in shower, a toilet, a sink. That’s about it. I’ve become pretty zealous in all of my renovation decisions, and because I don’t have much money, I’m going to be doing this all by myself. So to make sure I don’t completely mess up the whole room, I figured I should ask a few people how to do things first! So here are the main two things I’ve found to have trouble with:
1.) There’s a towel bar right behind the toilet (a pretty inconvenient place for a towel bar if you ask me), and I want to remove it. It’s a plastic towel bar within a ceramic base, which is somehow connected to the dry wall. I’m guessing it’s glued with some sort of… glue… So how would I go about removing it, and then how would I go about repairing the most likely ripped dry wall? I also am having the same issue with my ceramic toilet paper holder, which is connected to the dry wall in front of my toilet (another strange location if you ask me). I’m guessing that this would be removed the same way as the towel rack? If not, please inform me!
And 2.) The interior to my walk-in shower is made up of some sort of fake marble sheeting. It’s not tiled; it’s just straight sheets of this fake marble-looking stuff. And I absolutely HATE it. There are 3 sheets of it, on the 3 walls surrounding the shower, and then the door is made of frosted glass. I can stand the frosted glass, but I want the bathroom to be pure white. So I have two options that I see: I could gut the shower and re-tile it. OR… I could save myself to trouble and paint it solid white. Now, see, I have no idea if this is a possibility. And if it IS!! how would I go about doing that? Like what kind of paint would I use? And if the painting idea is a shot in the dark, how can I remove these sheets of fake marble that are about 2 feet talller than me and about twice my weight? I have no idea how there attatched, might I add. So yeah…
Thank you so much for helping me with my little precidament!!!
Tags: Bathrooms, Ide, Shower Tile
2 Comments at "I’m re-doing my whole bathroom?"
In most cases if the ceramic towel bar and paper holder is attached to a wall that is not tiled, then if you look on the bottom of the bases that are mounted to the wall, you should see a small screw. You would simply loosen the screws and then lift out an up and they should remove from a metal bracket that is attached to the wall. The brackets should be screwed into the wall either in the studs or using some kind of wall anchor and are easily removed.
On the other hand if these are installed on tile walls then usually they fit right into the wall when the tile is installed and if you remove them, there will be a empty space in the tile. I suspect from what you have said that this is not the case.
The shower is a bit more complicated. If you are talking about manufactured or cultured marble then it will be glued to the wall. You can remove it but it will usually pull chunks of drywall out with it unless it was install over cement board.
If it is more like a plastic or fiberglass wall panel, it would also be glued to the wall and may cause a little less damage to the drywall.
In either case, you would most likely need to remove it, cut out the drywall, install new cement board and then install new tile.
Once you have the new tiled walls, you can simply take out the old shower door and have a new one with the type of glass you like installed. There are many styles you can choose from.
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I hope this helps. Rick
you should really go to a home store like lowes or home depot and ask there. ^_^