 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 a 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 TikTok 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 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 a 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. The doorway has been opened completely. We removed the original jam in there or the one that was added 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 two by fours and these are gonna 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 two inch long screws to attach these to the previous frame. I also cut a two by four for the top and bottom to finish off the frame and then added one to the center for a 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 four by eight sheet of it and this is particularly four 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. I'm gonna start adding this drywall piece with the drywall screws in this. The top center, you can actually see where I drew the two by four on the underside. That's where I knew where to screw it 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 gonna let this dry overnight but it's looking so good so far and I'm probably gonna have to do one more layer in the morning once we sand it off. Time to remove everything from the bathroom that is not stained because we're gonna 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 particularly heavy. Goodbye. Goodbye. I'm gonna towel it later. Hello. Get the mirror off. Let's take off the light as well. The joints need this long. It belongs in what looks like a hospital. 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 toilet. Is that the poop hole? That was sick. I've never seen a toilet hole. Can you put your hand in? Yeah. Oh. That is so hard. Since I'm not gonna 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 a quarter inch thick. That way the tile in 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 drywall throw, 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 concrete 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 part that we're using to concrete and plaster the entire walls. It's a mixture of concrete and plaster by a brand called Neoded, it's called Concretta and I used this only once in the past on some countertops. So we are gonna be putting it over the tile, over the walls, over the shower, all over everything. Yes, like I mentioned, this is a waterproof shower plaster that you could put essentially over anything. Now, if you 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 with a drill and 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. Out of 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 a little on. This process is just like, I mean guys, it is messy, I'm not gonna lie. 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 coved 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. I'm gonna do the shower floor now. All the walls in here have a first coat and I let them dry for a bit. And now we're going to do the floor. I'm gonna see how I'll scoop a hole in here. My favorite part of plastering is connecting the edges. I don't know why, it's so satisfying. I wanna show you how the first coat of plaster looks. Here's me just kind of walking in and this is what it's looking like so far. So as you can 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 gonna 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 gonna start doing right 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 six hours or so. So we spread it all of the Concretta 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 I have an access panel from the backside 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, I'm doing a little bathroom check-in. It is looking so, so good in here. And I don't know. I think I probably already didn't 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 something for the YouTube. So the floor's now laid, but I'm gonna give you guys like an overview of what happened. In order to create these floors, I ended up using some pantry pavers that I get from Clay Tile. And I love these because they give you the look of kind of like an old Travertine paver 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 them 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 two hours to do. This bathroom is literally like a five by five foot 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 the 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 threshold 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 is going to be right there, mirror. So we are going to have some items in here of course, but the actual plaster treatment is just stunning. It was definitely a labor of love. 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 and the light in this bathroom is really just so stunning. You can see kind of a few, just feel so completely different than as you can see like what's out here. This is a grow up bag I'm using. I got this at floor and decor, but I'll link some below for you. 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 over grout it and let it dry down. And once it starts to dry down, you could knock the top off with a trowel. 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 trowel 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 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 I found this one on OfferUp. Same place that I found the box tape along. So OfferUp has been doing me well lately and I got this vanity for $275 on OfferUp. 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 the sink already integrated into it. So I already went ahead and used this product right here. This is crud cutter gloss off. So I used this and it just wiped it across the entire piece and got all of the gloss. I've just let it sit now for about 10 minutes. So I'm opting for Farron Ball. I'm gonna be using the estate egg shell finish in the color Sardine, which is one of the new colors from the Christopher John Rogers line. And we're gonna be doing two coats of this and then adding on some new hardware, which we're gonna go shopping for in just a bit right after adding on the paint. Whenever I'm painting any cabinetry, I always 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 snuck, the old breakfast snuck. 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, many 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've painted with the brush as well to give it that nice clean finish that the roller gives it. So we have made some progress and check out how it's looking. Lore 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 gonna 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 Sherman Williams. I just picked from their historic colors and now I wanna 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, really nice. I still need to bring that out. I need to get a handle for this too. I don't know what I wanna 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 four months. Now I found this at a shop in Los Angeles called Panopoli shop. It is so cute. You have the opportunity to go there. Gotta check it out. It's a really cute curated vintage store and it's really hard to find sconces 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 sconce that I've 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 gonna be going up here and I just think it's gonna be so beautiful. 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 199. So I ended up getting the one for 199 and we were 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 time. Toilet is actually so cute. I love it. Oil painting, I got for $10 from an estate sale and it was in the damage area because 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, 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 here. I bought all of this Unlackered 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 if 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 Unlackered Brass. 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, it's starting to get nice and aged. This is after about two and a half hours sitting in here and it's starting to really get aged and looking so, so pretty. I left mine in for about five hours and just loved the way that it ended up looking. It was nighttime at this point so I pulled them out but hopefully you can see some of that distressing on the surface of the 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 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's 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 for the reveal and I cannot wait to share it with you guys. So let me share it in three, two...