DIY Master Bathroom Makeover

hey what's going on guys I'm mr. bilder and in today's video I'm gonna show you how I took my old master bathroom and turn it into that so that wasting time let's get into the video let's go when it comes to demo work every job is completely different but I stick to the same rules that I like to follow so some of those things to minimize the headaches our cover the floors from getting damaged turn the electrical power breaker off be mine for all the wall stats are so if you need to pry something off ensure that all the screws are detached from that wall stud and then if you need to pull something off use a putty knife with a pry bar to gently remove it from that section of the wall have a shopback next to you that way you can kind of clean up as you're going so you're not working with this huge mess and when you're doing plumbing be sure to turn off the main water line and have plenty of rags nearby to catch all the residual water that's still left on the water lines when disconnecting the cabinet vanity was built of a few different materials but starting with the base I used 3/4 inch maple plywood and simply made the separating compartment securing them with wood glue and pocket books now the big tip here is to ensure all of your compartments are perfectly square on both planes and the reason why is when it comes to building the drawers and doors will have a huge pain in the butt aligning all these meriting dimensions I used those Rockler clamp at assembling squares to keep me on the square and narrow throughout this section of the building to conceal the exposed plywood edges I built the cabinet face frames securing them with wood glue and pocket holes now in order to secure the face frame successfully to the cabinet base make sure you place enough pocket holes on the cabinet sides vertically specifically in areas where you can't see them even when the doors and drawers are open for the cabinet doors I wanted a retro pleated look so the pieces ripped to two inch strips and assembled using a doweling jig from Rockler with this Jake all that's required is aligning our pieces pre drilling the holes with a 3/8 bit until you hit the stopper and then setting your dowels in with some wood glue full transparency to speed up this process I use my Festool Domino a lot of people don't have this tool but it's no big deal which and all it does is just speeds up the process to create a lot of mortise and Tenon's when you need it the most the big piece of advice I'll tell you when it comes to assembling these doors during glue up is use the minimum amount of clamping pressure that way your doors don't warp after the glue dries and you remove your clamps the drawer boxes were made out of half-inch maple ply to keep them lighter now to make them stronger I use a router table box jig that just sits over your existing router table and slides back and forth creating repeating 3/8 cuts that would lock in place like a puzzle piece this ensures long term strength over decades pushing and pulling on these drawers for hardware to be a bit fancy I went with these Blum 110 degree soft closing hinges now this particular style I bought they were the wrong style as they're meant for frameless style cabinets but to fix that problem instead of returning them all I did is I attached a little spacer block behind the hinge on the cabinet itself and it acts as a frameless cabinet now my mistake but problem got solved this way being the floating cabinet I needed to redirect a hot and cold water lines to come from the wall instead of the floor it was 10 years ago where all we had was copper piping that's required soldering I wouldn't touch this project with a ten-foot pole based off my skill set but what the invention of this PEX piping it couldn't get any easier it's basically like working with Legos and so once you invest into that 30 40 dollar crimping tool simply slide the half-inch crimping ring on followed by the 90-degree plastic elbow and compress the crimping ring till the crimping tool reaches a hard stop and you've got a certified water seal for lighting since we want to do separate his-and-her mirrors we thought it would look personal and cozy to have separate light fixtures over each mirror I installed the new light boxes where I wanted to sit and then made a split from one cable to two cable into those boxes and connected them through one junction box now for safety reasons I connected it through one junction box with a cover sitting behind the mirror aesthetically this won't be a problem since the mirror will be covering it but this is a great point to tell you guys if you are gonna be tackle on this project make sure you look up your local building codes for plumbing and electrical just to keep you safe for drywall I use the mold resistant half-inch drywall that's recommended for bathrooms I secured all the joints with drywall tape and multiple coats of drywall compound sanding everything down to 120 grit to ensure even in smooth transitions for the backsplash tile to be installed after all the subflooring was repaired I was lucky enough to find the exact flooring tile those used in this bathroom that I needed to extend the extra six square feet running underneath the cabinet I tell you if I wasn't so lucky I but had no choice by demo all the old tile and spend more money to finish this project oh hey guys this is a perfect opportunity about this week's sponsor audible I just finished listening to woodworking basics by JJ Saunders where I learned tons of great joinery techniques that you might have seen in this video audible originals are exclusive audio titles created by celebrated storytellers from worlds as diverse as theater journalism literature and more get your first audiobooks plus two free originals when you try audible for 30 days visit audible.com slash mr. bill and word or text mr. bilder - 500 500 honorable content includes unmask selection of audiobooks original audio shows news comedy and more from leading audio book publishers broadcasters entertainers magazines and newspaper publishers and business information providers go to audible.com slash mr. build it one word or text mr. builded to get started today thanks audible let's get back to words speaking of luck I was lucky enough to have my wife come and help me hang this cabinet up and after the cabin was secured and hanging off the back wall sitting on car jacks I used a small hydraulic bottle jack to lift the cabinet and level it into place one so then I then secured it into the wall steps through the cabinet from the sides so the cabin attachment method onto the wall is going to be what's called a French cleat system and I've done the system before and all it is is a piece of plywood that's ripped at a 45 degree angle and the way that kind of works is one piece sits on the cabinet this way and then the other piece sits on the wall this way and essentially what you do is you do like a hook system where the top cabinet slides up and catches it on top and then at that point on you can can start securing it to the wall at other different anchoring locations for the backsplash I went with a herringbone pattern using a 2 by 8 inch subway tile this was about 200 bucks in subway tile and the best way I found to keep the patterns consistent as you're working it's setting the base row first use a small speed square to ensure every piece in that row is sitting at a perfect 45 degrees and then from that point on you're safe to work up using the 1/8 inch rubber spacers to continue your pattern once all the tile was done I finished them off with a charcoal grout painted the hideous mustard yellow walls with a frosty white from Sherwin Williams and then I just covered up all the light fixture covers and finished off with a 6-inch trimmed baseboard all right so originally I put a little junction box down there to be able to hook up the electrical but I realize it was not the prime spot justiça because the cable I need to tap into is one didn't have enough slack so let me make it very difficult to extend the plug so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone I'm gonna create a little toilet dispenser right here I'm gonna have a little shelf to it to put your phone but the kicker's I also want to put a little USB charger to charge your phone there so I figured I might as well take this power unit give it a little plug here and then power down there as well those are here so what we're gonna do once I extended the power outlets to run under the cabinet I picked up a plug-and-play kind of LED kit on Amazon with a motion-activated light sensor that would turn on when somebody walks in and then turn off when the timer was done I'll be sure to put a link down to Scripture guys to check out after all the black faucets went in for the final details I installed the matching all-black Hardware on the cabinet's doors and drawers hung up the lights the mirrors were hung up using these heavy-duty wall anchors that are designed for walls that are tiled and of course the geometric towel rack I will make sure to leave a link that description for all these products that I used to get to check out well that is it for me this week thank you so much for watching this video if you bring the channel and you like stuff like this make sure to hit that subscribe button the next video we will print out as us tackling on the shower project in the bathtub we're gonna knock it all out and make something really impressive out of it so make sure you hit that notification about that way you'll be alerted and you'll be the first one to know when the video comes out make sure you like comment and share this movie with your friends let me know what you guys think in the comment sections below I ran into a few problems I'd love to answer any questions that you guys might have I'll put links to my social media in the descriptions below make sure you guys check all that stuff out too now this week will 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