This week I’ve been working on the shower, tub faucet, and trim in the Victorianna’s master bathroom. Everything was in progress at the same time so I’ve divided this post up by topic instead of showing the pictures chronologically.
Shower
To make the shower floor, I laid down a piece of beadboard (with the grooves facing the floor) and traced around the bottom of the shower. Like with the shower walls, I used the beadboard because I have a lot of it and it’s easy to cut.
The shower floor sits on the tiles, with the shower butting up against it. The shower floor will be glued in but I don’t plan to glue in the shower, so I can have access to the inside if I need it to fix anything later. (I didn’t leave myself access behind the shower in the downstairs bathroom, and some of that tile wallpaper is turning yellow from light exposure now — no way to fix it without destroying things. Sigh.)
The shower hardware is from Elf Miniatures. It came with a washer that I initially thought was supposed to be a base for the showerhead (like in the picture on the Elf website), but the hole on the washer was slightly larger than the part of the showerhead that goes into the wall, so the shower wall would have shown through. Instead I installed the showerhead directly into the wall and used the washer as a drain.
I wasn’t sure if the handle should be pointing down or pointing sideways — on the website it’s sideways, and I almost did that, but in the horizontal position it’s off center in the base, which made me think it was supposed to be vertical. Does it look wrong?
I painted the floor using the same process described in my last post, drilled a hole in the shower floor for the drain, and glued the washer over the hole.
Next I glued in the floor. The dowel is keeping the corner from popping up while the glue dried.
And the shower’s done! Well, almost. I also cut out and painted two triangular shelves. I want to glue some shampoo bottles and soap to the shelves before I glue the shelves to the wall, and don’t have those ready yet.