New Bathroom, Old Space

This big blog on building bathrooms is coming to you from the floor of The Remodeling Show where I am delivering several demonstrations on (can you believe it) building bathrooms. Among the many topics I’ll hit–everything from how to deal with Swiss-Cheesed floor framing (a perennial old house challenge) to the differences between minimum code requirements and minimum design recommendations and insulation tips–I’ll also address a simple-ish way to upgrade a bathtub, add elegance, and still retain the feel and finishes required for weaving a modern bathroom into an old space.

The design trick is simple: A raised bathtub. Execution may prove challenging because you have to deal with the floor system. Raising our new tub enabled us to relocate it in the small room and decreased framing headaches.

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