45 SQ FT SMALL BATHROOM MAKEOVER 🚽 Concrete OVER Tile (NO DEMO DIY)

[Music] so we are starting a small bathroom this is the one that Marie uses and so many people ask why Marie doesn't stay in this room attached to the bathroom and that's just because the room that she's in which is the one that we recently redid on the channel is larger and she just selected that one but we're the only ones living here so she uses this bathroom it's just right through the hallway and this is the space that we are going to be making over now for this project I was actually asked by architectural digest to do kind of a social exclusive with them over on Tik Tok and Instagram for this bathroom so I'm actually filming all of this as I'm also creating the content for them we are changing everything and I'm very excited for this transformation leading from the kitchen through the archway is the laundry room which is right here and then this is a bathroom we're making over but something you might be able to tell is this bathroom is extremely small it's a very very small bathroom and it has two doors which this this door here essentially is not necessary a lot of old houses had a lot of doors because they didn't have air conditioning so it let the air kind of go through the rooms which on the other side currently looks something like this so this is the door that we are going to be walling off and this will all then be one usable wall that we could hopefully then put some storage up here because the only storage in this bathroom for Marie is under the sink so I'd like to add some sort of wall cabinet storage solution up here [Applause] [Music] the doorway has been opened completely we removed the original Jam in there or the one that was added um and all the plaster and we cleaned it all up so it's nice and ready to actually be enclosed now what I'm going to be doing down here is just removing these tiles here so that we could add the wall in here and get that all drywalled patching a door is actually not as hard as it looks what you're going to start off by doing is getting it down to the studs as I did here just removing all the trim and then I went outside and cut down my 2x4s and these are going to go on the left and right side we are essentially creating a new frame on the inside of the door frame that we're going to be attaching the drywall to and I'm just using some 2in long screws to attach these to the previous frame I also cut a 2x4 for the top and bottom to finish off the frame and then added one to the Center for Center support that way we can add the drywall this is the first time I've ever purchased drywall before and this is what it looks like a large 4x8 sheet of it and this is particularly for bathrooms it has a moisture barrier on this side so that's why it's purple to cut drywall all you're going to do is score it with a blade and it just snaps [Music] perfect going to start adding this dry dry wall piece with the drywall screws and this on the top Center you can actually see where I drew the 2x4 on the underside that's where I knew where to screw down the middle and then I used some joint compound and mesh taping on either side just anywhere where the joints needed to be filled and I filled those in the joint compound is applied and we are going to let this dry overnight but it's looking so good so far and I'm probably going to have to do one more layer in the morning uh once we sand it [Music] off time to remove everything from the bathroom that is not staying because we are going to be Plastering or concreting this whole bathroom from the shower to the ceiling to the walls we already sliced the silicone is it so heavy oh I mean it's not ridiculous Goodbye Oh goodbye [Music] towel our new vanity fits in no more vanity no more glass let's get the mirror off let's take off the light as well we don't need this one it belongs in what looks like a hospital [Music] in order to move a toilet you have to get all the water out of it so I did that with this cup and poured it in a mop bucket and then once it was all out we were able to remove the [Music] toilet is that the poop hole that was sick I've never seen a toilet hole can you put your hand in is so since I'm not going to be demoing this bathroom tile at all on the walls I have to create the same projection on the door that we enclosed that the tile has created so I actually used a piece of plywood that was about 1/4 inch thick that way the tile and our enclosed door area is flush and it looks seamless and then I also added a small piece of wood trim to the top there to connect up the chair rail on the tile I forgot to share that section but I did add that so as you can see here I have done a little bit of joint compounding at the top of the shower because up here is where the tile kind of juts off and off the side around the edge we have the chair rail molding so what I did was I actually used some joint compound to essentially build up the wall a little bit and then smooth it into the current wall and again this is just so I did not have to rip out all the tile in this bathroom that would have literally required me to rip out all the tile redo all of the dry dry well throughout everything have the entire shower re hot mopped everything would have been kind of a big big project and undertaking so I really wanted to do the most I could in the preparation steps which are these ones so I added the joint compound there to kind of meet up with the tile because we are going to be putting a waterproof concrete over the top of all of this multiple coats of it that's going to create a waterproof sealed barrier and we're going to get to that in just a minute and I tried to do that around the top of the Cove as well including the corners but I think this will give us a little bit more of a seamless look once we apply the concreta over top which will be multiple coats and hopefully it'll just even itself out and look nice and seamless with the wall this is a product that we are using to concrete and plaster the entire walls it's a mixture of concrete and plaster by a brand called meoded it's called concreta and I used this only once in the past on some countertops so we are going to be putting it over the tile over the walls over the shower all over everything so yes like I mentioned this is a waterproof shower plaster that you could put essentially over anything now if you do have large scale tiles I do suggest you put down the special tape first when you do it but you have to mix it up uh with a drill in kind of a drill mixer attachment and then they add the pigment they give you a little pigment cup for whatever you do I chose this color called Westwood beige I have the two trowels I'm going to pick up with one and then kind of scoop it off and plaster it on the wall with the other so let's add little on this process is just like I mean guys it is messy I'm not going to lie now I'm not going to make this look like a glamorous process because it is not however I enjoy things like this like I really do enjoy Plastering it's something that is satisfying like I can listen to music and do it and I worked on this over a couple of days I'm not going to lie now for your last coat of plaster you do want to do it all in one day I only did two coats but I did Cover the entire bathroom including the ceiling the walls everything because there are coed ceilings in this bathroom and everything connects up beautifully so there's no kind of sharp edges where you could start and stop so I actually kind of had to do it all in one go going to do the shower floor now all the walls in here have the first coat and I let them dry for a bit and now we're going to do the floor let me see how scoop a [Music] whole my favorite part of plastering is connecting the edges I don't know why it's so [Applause] [Music] satisfying [Music] I want to share with you how the first coat of plaster looks in the bathroom it looks so good here's me just kind of walking in and this is what it's looking like so far so as you could see starting to even out a little bit you could still see some of the tile kind of grout lines here but with the second coat I'm hoping that we're not going to be able to see any of those and as you can see over here this is starting to blend really nicely it's not looking super harsh and even over on this side it's like Blended pretty great I think once we add another coat on top the reason there's this like crazy color variation is we started and stopped on the first coat because you can only do it on the first but on your final you have to do the entire coat at once so that is what we are going to start doing right [Music] now so for the second coat I actually had Justin help me with this that way we can get the entire coat done in one day this is a small bathroom and we were able to do it in probably like 6 hours or so so we spreaded all of the concr on mixed it up to start and then went all the way around everything as you can see I haven't even removed that shower head yet I am going to swap that but the great thing is is I have an access panel from the back side of the bathroom because this is an old house so that's where all of the kind of access is and I used a damp sponge just to smooth out any of the graininess as it started to dry down hello doing a little bathroom check-in it is looking so so good in here I don't know I think I probably already did mention that this is being filmed for architectural digest which is really exciting so I've been filming a lot of the process on my phone and kind of forgetting some of for the YouTube so the floor's now laid but I'm going to give you guys like an overview of what happened in order to create these floors I ended up using some Pantry papers that I get from from clay tile and I love these because they give you the look of kind of like an old travertine pav or Cobblestone kind of effect but they're not insanely expensive so they kind of give you that reclaimed feel but they're not overly priced and they're not super thick either so they're not hard to cut or work with I really enjoy them I'll link them below for you guys I use them throughout my entire kitchen laundry room everywhere and in the actual bathroom we just laid them in kind of your traditional brick pattern mixed up some mortar and then you can kind of see them going down here Justin actually laid because I was on a flight when we were working on this bathroom and he laid them really really beautifully it looks so good and he said it only took him about 2 hours to do this bathroom is literally like a 5x 5T Square so not too large look how good it looks I'm so happy with how the floor looks now these are tumbled travertine like pavers and I used these in my kitchen as you guys know but I ended up using these square shape it was a different style these are the squares that I was mentioning but I did use some of the bricks on the thres hold here to create this kind of like striped detail which I absolutely love as you know there used to be a door here and I was always going to have the same tile transition from here into the laundry room and then back into the kitchen so I wanted to just do various shapes but just look how good the plaster looks like the concrete plaster looks absolutely incredible on camera it kind of shows a little bit more contrasty and also keep in mind vanity is going to be here toilet's going to be right there mirror so we are going to have um some items in here of course but the actual plaster treatment is just stunning it was definitely a labor of love um I've just been doing a lot of plaster lately in this house I feel like Spanish homes and plaster just pair so nicely and I love how this is looking the color is so pretty the light in this bathroom is really just so stunning you can see kind of a few just feels so completely different than as you can see like what's out here this is a grow bag I'm using I got this at Flor and Decor but I'll link some below for you now on the bottom I actually ended up using the tile to create a baseboard and I love the way that this looked and felt because I didn't want to add wood in between the plaster and the stone it just felt like the stone and the plaster were one and I wanted them to stay connected so for the grout I just thinned that out added it into a grout bag and grouted it just as I do traditionally with any of these masonry projects like when I've shared my kitchen or the laundry room you just grout it and you essentially overgrout it and let it dry down and once it starts to dry down you could knock the top off with a Trel so you let this dry for probably about 45 minutes to an hour or so and go all the way through piping through all your different lines but also making sure you leave yourself an area to exit you want to start at one side and then kind of work your way out so as you can see here once this area dried went through with my Trel and scraped off any excess grout and you can fill in and smash any of that grout into any areas that isn't fully filled hello hello and welcome to my vanity that I found on Facebook Marketplace as many of you know I tend to buy a lot on there actually found this one on offer up same place that I found the fox tap on so offer up has been doing me well lately and I got this vanity for $275 on offer up it was new in box but from like a warehouse or something that got a liquidation of vanities I loved kind of these little accents as well and then also it has a really pretty marble top and a sink already integrated into it so I already went ahead and use this product right here this is crud cutter gloss off so I used this and I just wiped it across the entire piece and got all of the gloss um I've just let it sit now for about 10 minutes so I am opting for Fon ball I'm going to be using the estate eggshell finish in the color sardine which is one of the new colors from the Christopher John Rogers line and we're going to be doing two coats of this and then adding on some new hardware which we're going to go shopping for in just a bit right after adding all the paint whenever I'm painting any Cabinetry I always use use a cabinet and door roller it's like a velvety one and it just makes it so much easier so pretty oh my gosh it reminds me of my breakfast nook the old breakfast nook this is exactly the color my little tip for painting furniture is to always make sure that you're finishing off with the roller so I start off with the brush and I go through and I brush just all of the details any areas that have like kind of ridges that need to really get that paint inside of them and then I go back through with the roller and the roller is what Smooths everything out and I try to go over the top of everything I painted with the brush as well to give it that nice clean finish that the roller gives [Music] it so we have made some progress and check out how it's looking floor is currently wet that's why it's looking a little crazy at the moment has to dry down I just cleaned it with the grout haze tile remover or like the grout remover it looks like this going to dry down quite a bit lighter but I love the way the tile looks so much the vanity I actually ended up changing the color of so as you can see I put the blue one in this morning and with the brass hardware and with this kind of very clean marble top it just felt very pretty it almost felt like a little bit childlike I think the blue next to the very stark white kind of leaned a little bit of like turquoise and white so I ended up swapping it for this color and I just love it now it looks so pretty in this bathroom and the color is Aurora Brown from Sherin Williams I just picked from their historic colors and now I want to actually get the mirror and light up in here because I want it to start actually looking like a bathroom again we also got the glass in yesterday which looks so good this is the original glass and everything still functions just as before which is great um really nice I still need to bring that out I need to get a handle for this too I don't know what I want to do yet but it definitely looks so much better like look how good that looks so pretty I have to do all the new Hardware in here I have a very special light that I've been saving for probably the past like three or 4 months now I found this at a shop in Los Angeles called ponop shop it is so cute if you have the opportunity to go there got to check it out it's a really cute curated vintage store and it's really hard to find scones one off normally they're sold in pairs because they're meant to go on either side of something but the owner actually had a single of this scon that I have been wanting for a long time I've seen some of my favorite designers use these sconces in the past and she had a solo so I was like oh this would be great for the bathroom and I picked this one up it has the gold backing on it it's going to be going up here and I just think it's going to be so [Music] beautiful [Music] I'm about to add the toilet and I got a new toilet for this room because the previous one was so modern and just not cute and I didn't realize toilets are really not that expensive the two I was going between at Lowe's were between $149 and $1.99 so I ended up getting the one for $1.99 and we are going to put this in the bathroom now I am going to hire a plumber to come attach all the fixtures properly but I'm just placing them for the [Music] time wow that toilet is actually so cute I love [Music] it some of you might remember this oil painting I got for $10 from an estate sale and it was in the damaged area cuz it had a rip in the back of it but look how old it is and you can't even tell the rip at all like I mean you of course you can but it's pretty well masked and I love the colors and the frame I thought was so nice I was thinking of maybe hanging it [Music] here I bought all this unlacquered brass hardware for my bathroom however it's far too shiny so I want to share with you how to age it in just a few hours you'll also just need some vinegar and some salt and you're going to need a large tub that has a lid on it and then a smaller tub that could fit on the inside so the first thing you're going to do is just clean off your metal with some fine steel wool open up your tub and pour a generous amount of that vinegar into the bottom you're only going to want about an inch or so just enough you feel like is enough for the project you're working on then I also added the salt on the inside there and placed my smaller tub in the inside so what actually ages the metal is not the vinegar and salt itself it's actually the fumes from the vinegar and salt that creates a reaction that then ages the unlacquered brass so you're going to put that lid on close it nice and tight and then check back every couple hours I just took the lid off and this is after about 45 minutes as you can see starting to get nice and aged this is after about 2 and 1/2 hours sitting in here and it's starting to really get a and looking so so pretty I left mine in for about 5 hours and just loved the way that it ended up looking it was night time at this point so I pulled them out but hopefully you can see some of that distressing on the surface of the [Music] brass the bathroom is officially complete and I think it is time to share with you the reveal of this bathroom makeover because this is probably the most intense bathroom makeover I have done in terms of just kind of transforming a space I adore the way that it turned out now I will say architectural digest has already gone live with this content and a lot of people had so many questions about it so if anyone has questions just leave them in the comments below and I'll try to answer them for you however keep in mind this product is meant for the walls like it's they're supposed to get wet it's like used at water parks it's used for this purpose and I just used it in the bathroom Maria has already been using the shower behind me as well for about a month now this was filmed quite a while back so I'm just kind of filming this little outro before the reveal and I cannot wait to share it with you guys let me share it in 3 2 1 [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]