Highlands Victorian powder room
An 1894 Victorian where the powder room had been carved out of an understairs closet. A pocket door recovered nine square feet, and the whole room was treated as one composition in hand-made cement tile.
What was there before
- Inward-swinging door that fouled the toilet at 17 inches clear
- Basin over the trap with no storage anywhere
- Sloped ceiling under the stair with 6 foot 2 head height at the low end
- No ventilation at all
Scope of work
- Door converted to a pocket, recovering the swing area
- Toilet moved 9 inches to make the 21 inch front clearance
- Wall-hung basin on a concealed carrier fixed to new blocking
- Encaustic cement floor tile in a four-tile repeat, sealed before grouting
- Full-height hand-glazed tile to the basin wall only, paint elsewhere
- 50 CFM exhaust on a timer, ducted through the side wall
Specification
- Floor
- 8" encaustic cement tile, four-tile pattern repeat, pre-sealed
- Wall
- 3" x 6" hand-glazed ceramic, running bond, to the basin wall only
- Basin
- Wall-hung ceramic on a concealed carrier, no pedestal
- Door
- Pocket door in a new stud-and-track wall with no services in it
- Lighting
- Two sconces at 60 inches, dimmable, no ceiling fixture
- Exhaust
- 50 CFM, 4 inch rigid, side wall termination, 20 min timer
Timeline
- Week 1
Strip out, pocket wall framed, toilet waste relocated, exhaust ducted
- Week 2
Backer, tile, cement tile sealed and grouted, basin, lighting, handover
Outcome
Moving the toilet nine inches and losing the door swing turned a room you had to shuffle in into one you can stand up straight in. The cement tile does the rest of the work.
It is 26 square feet and it is now the room guests comment on. The pocket door was their idea and it changed everything.
Priya Raghunathan, LoHi
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