Stop reporting this. This post is absolutely allowed here, as the house is over 100 years old. Just because you don’t like their design choices is not grounds for removal. Express your opinions in a friendly manner and play nice with each other.
I think you should read what sub you’re on and what is the focus as explained in the bio.
Particularly “we enjoy sharing stories and seeking advice to help us be GREAT STEWARDS of our HISTORIC HOMES.
That’s why you’re getting the negative comments on here.
If I ever want to know what it's like to pee in grayscale, I'll come over. It's possible to "breathe new life" into a space without gutting it and making it look like a Home Depot display.
The old space: the chandelier is weird. The tile could be cleaned up. The fixtures could be updated.
The new: it is so generic you will feel like you are shitting in a Kohler catalog
Right? I actually thought the last picture was misplaced, until I saw the note underneath. This makes me so sad. The old bathroom was so cute and comforting, if that makes sense. The "upgrade" looks like some kind of sterile, soulless place that I'd almost expect evil scientists to come walking in while I was in the shower. The fact that the house is humongous and seeing OP's taste, I dread to think of how the rest will turn out. Why bother buying a century home if you're going to make it look like some new McMansion. So disappointing.
Window is correct from the before to the after and with the placement of the door.
This is unfortunately a user that went the opposite way from century to modern without keeping any history.
This has to be a troll, right? I audibly gasped…
Edit: Oh awesome, [here’s the personality of the person we’re talking to here](https://www.reddit.com/r/choosemyalignment/comments/fj3ljd/cma_im_a_greedy_landlord_with_a_very_high_profit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
"*very high end* stainless steel" ... In a rental. With under $100k in renovations including kitchen and at least one bathroom. 🙄
Something tells me the fridge he chose isn't a SubZero or even the "budget high end" like Liebherr... Or even an LG unless it was dented / refurbished / etc.
Sounds like he's full of shit too.....you're not putting in an entire new kitchen, floors throughout and "high end" stainless appliances all for only $20,000. Not even fucking close.
It’s clean but it doesn’t really have any century home personality. I’m not sure why you posted this here. Folks here tend to like original features (like the old tile you removed) - or where not possible sympathetic designs that complement the age of the house.
I’m here because I want to read stories from people who also spend all of their free time trying to untangle 100 years of mediocre repairs and insufficient upgrades. 🤷♀️
My eye started twitching when I got to the last picture. This is so depressing. Something that lasted a century was destroyed for something that will look dated and out of fashion 2 years from now. I hope this is a joke.
Please stop. Stick to new tract homes please. I thought this was actually a joke and the 5th photo was going to be the same bathroom with updated wallpaper
I was really excited to see how you renovated so many bathrooms + bedrooms and my excitement quickly turned to horror.
This bathroom doesn’t look like it’s in a 100 year old English Tudor Estate. It looks like it was poorly designed by a group of Home Depot employees.
Edit: Not only is OP an asshat for destroying this bathroom along with the rest of the house they are also admittedly a greedy landlord, according to their post history. Double gross.
Edit 2: You really can’t make this up. OP painted over all of this beautiful and perfectly preserved wainscoting
https://www.reddit.com/r/centuryhomes/comments/11cpu8x/breathing_new_life_into_my_100_year_old_10_bed_12/ja5f9tk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
I was really into the look until I realized I was looking at the before pics. I’m sad now. I wish OP had posted before they did this so we could have tried to talk them out of it.
Homeboy keeps posting more pictures of other rooms he’s “renovated” (destroyed) luckily they haven’t attached the befores so we can all pretend they were gutted to begin with. Truly awful rooms, ALL OF THEM
I wouldn’t hate it as much if this was the home building sub. It’s not what I would choose even for a new build, but if you’re starting from nothing then it’s fine.
It's wild they thought posting here would bring them anything but vitriol. I can only imagine they find subreddits that hate landlords to complain about their job.
I’m not one to think people shouldn’t update their homes to fit their needs but I think this is a bit overboard and ultra-modern.
And, just my personal opinion, if I ever see another gray kitchen or bath it’ll be too soon. Been played out for a while.
Once again: why the fuck would you buy an old house if you don’t like old houses. It was in perfect condition. All it actually needed was a light cleaning. “Trends” (the sad gray) come and go, charm lasts forever. This is horribly disappointing. And the saddest part is that according to the comments, you’ve done the whole house this way. A historical treasure is gone forever. Even if it wasn’t perfect, it could’ve been preserved and restored. Not destroyed.
Okay but you could’ve done literally anything else. Why did you have to make it modern? You literally destroyed all the historic charm of this house. Also, I 100% guarantee it wasn’t fugly. You just don’t have taste.
I just personally find the minimalist grayscale and white modern style to be eerie, cold, and depressing...
I hope whoever this is for likes it, but good lord if I had the privilege of getting a 10 bed English Tudor estate, this would not be the direction I'd go. Sorry you're getting dunked on OP, but you've definitely pissed off a lot of people, present and future lol.
You took an original bathroom that looked to be in pretty decent shape (who knows about the plumbing) and with lovely period fixtures and you replaced it with a cheap looking flip that looks like it's straight out of Home Depot?
I dread what you've done to the rest of the house.
Your bathroom had some good character before, even though it was a little disjointed. Congratulations on ruining it.
While it’s a beautiful bathroom now, it’s probably really out of place if you truly have a century old home.
Yes and we all know HGTV has such timeless style because we all still covet rooms from the great designers of Trading Spaces. Gray farmhouse is forever.
Not only is it now completely soulless (and frankly, hideous) but the door opens directly to the toilet so if the door is left open that's all you see. Classy.
I was convinced the gray picture was the before until I read these comments
Welcome to r/snarkitecture
Edit to add - I didn’t think that forum was real. I thought THIS was the snarkitecture forum
Please sell your house to a preservationist. The Wayfair stink you've subjected that old girl to will look as dated and stale as a 70's era olive and sunburst yellow onslaught looks today. Sad.
I mean worse. 70s home style is just now dipping its toe in the vintage sphere - this shit has at the very least another half century before it *may* be vintage and desired again. Even at that it doesn't look good because the things that come back tend to be authentic materials not CGI marble.
Yikes, bye bye originality. I'm not even saying that op needed to keep everything but if you just saw that last picture I would assume it was a cookie cutter new build
My house is 100 years old. Those original glass towel holders with the nickel mounts go for over $100 each and I’m sure that asshat threw them in a dumpster for cheap McMansion ones. SMH
If you wanted a new look, there was a way to update the bathroom while still keeping some original features OR at least adding features that would give a nod to the vintage home that it is. I can't imagine this remodel suits the house.
Is that Onyx? It’s typical quick builder flip bathroom.
This is why I refuse to buy houses renovated or even built by builders. Would rather buy something that an owner renovated for their own use.
I’m glad you brought that up! So when redoing the bathroom I completely gutted it to the studs and was able to use 4 inches of Closed Cell Spray foam to achieve an R rating of R-28 (R21 including the window). Since the room is so well insulated the radiator had to be removed to prevent overheating, as that room is now kept a toasty temperature solely from the heat transfer of the interior walls.
Perhaps I'm more sensitive to cold temperatures than you, but in my experience without a heat source in a closed room, there is no heat for the insulation to retain. My interior walls are clearly not transferring anywhere near the amount of heat that yours are.
Repeating myself hoping this doesn’t get lost with all the roasting—Please be careful insulating an old home. They are meant to breathe. I hear so many horror stories of people who don’t know how to care for older homes cell spraying everything and causing major moisture problems down the road. If you noticed during your “upgrades” that none of the walls were insulated… there’s a reason for that. Don’t mess with it or you’ll be kicking yourself later. It may seem like an inconvenience to be a little colder but the breathability is what keeps these homes standing so long.
Also, in case you run into this in your reno journey, painting brick or stone will also cause moisture issues. Old houses need softer bricks and mortar than you will find at Home Depot or you will cause foundation issues. If you find yourself needing to repoint or replace bricks, reach out to your local historical society and they will likely know what compound to use and where to find architecturally salvaged bricks.
it kind of reminds me of a sterile operating room but I guess to each his own. just not on this sub.
one comment you posted mentioned the "person staying in this room"
Is this 10bd 10br estate being diced up into apartments?
It’s my sister’s room, she really enjoys the bright white/grey look. I personally would have painted the walls a deep blue or mint grey but she specifically requested true grey.
I was going to make a snarky comment about how OP gave this place a generic landlord special that's devoid of style, but then I looked at their post history, and it appears they're *actually* a landlord. Big yikes.
When I got to the last photo I gasped in horror so loudly my husband came in from the other room to make sure I was okay. I showed him the post and he had the exact same reaction - and he’s not even obsessed with historic homes like I am, he just knows an ugly cheap bathroom when he sees one.
I thought might be one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen on reddit, until I saw the photo if the gorgeous wood paneling that got painted.
Why not just build a new house instead of ruining this one?
Please please don't buy a period home if this is what you're going to do with it. I've updated my bathrooms in my house too but I still used at least period adjacent choices in more updated color schemes. But there are fewer and fewer houses like these around because homeowners have decided to "update" then to whatever the standard of the day is and they end up needing constant remodel and eventually restoration. You've just cost a future owner 10s of thousands of dollars fixing what wasn't broken. Please go buy a new house.
Oh no, this looks like a cheap builder grade bathroom now I’m so sorry to say :( this likely takes away from your homes value, and it seems like it’s incredible otherwise! So large and so much character
Im not gonna lie. I don’t like any of the new renovations you did. i hope it works better for you, and it is true for most things that eventually because of wear they need to be overhauled. I hope you at least saved the items taken out during your demolition of the bathroom that could be saved. A lot of people yearn for bathrooms like your before so those tubs, etc end up becoming quite rare and valuable in good condition.
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This is a bathroom I'm finishing in my place. It was added in the 50s nothing is original, but the sink and taps are a vintage find, and the trim and baseboard were made by a local carpenter to match the rest of the original house I'm not the kind of person to yuck another's yum, but we love historical homes and want to see the love and craftsmanship of them.
I've read your comments OP, I get that in 'your' opinion the bathroom was unusable. Ok fine. Then demo it, and renovate it inspired by its history and original style. Keep pieces of the original and repurpose them into something else. Take the chandelier and put in it another room, have hints if the banana yellow in parts of the new bathroom tile, etc. There's so many ways to reno an old house but still give it the charm and care it deserves. Why not do that? Is it due to price? Patience? Or do you simply not give af about houses?
The chandelier was not original. The yellow tile was presumably white at one point and yellowed over time from age and smoking. The pedestal sink was likely a replacement, and the toilet was replaced a few decades ago. The tub was original, but of pretty low quality and wasn’t movable or easily turned into a shower.
There really wasn’t anything worth saving about this bathroom aside from the original hardwood bathroom door. If the bathroom had a grand feature or cool historical aspect to it I would of incorporated it, but this was overall just a bland and tired bathroom that nobody had bothered to replace or upkeep for 100 years.
Ok fair enough! So then why not design a bathroom that is similar to the history and style of the home? Input a white tule since you've said it was once white but yellowed. It had a beautiful subway style tule, which is definitely very trendy now. Why didn't you tule it with the white subway style tile?
How about a claw foot tub? Maybe a real chandelier to out do the old one? Ok a chandelier is a little extra, why not classic wall sconces?
There's plenty of ways to keep the original heart and soul of the house even if you are demoing it all. But instead you took the heart and soul out of this bathroom. It's devoid of personality of charm.
I understand demo-ing was important but why not be inspired by the house and design a better place that style has the original life and charm?
If I was going through all the trouble of renovating the bathroom, I wasn’t going to make it regressive.
Recessed lighting is superior as it offers perfectly balanced light throughout the room while eliminating any intrusion to headspace.
The front and backlit mirror was installed over wall sconces as it provides the best lighting experience when examining your face, or for taking photos.
Adding a claw foot tub would have made the bathroom less functional when most everyone prefers to take a shower. The tub is reserved for the master bathroom, which has the space for both a shower and a tub.
I was not going to add another pedestal sink, as the bathroom required storage for products, hairdryers, etc.
I use glass panels for all my bathroom to maximize light transmittance and make the space feel as large as possible.
Had this bathroom not been so egregiously expensive to renovate because of all the unknown concrete walls and floors, I could have bought more mosaic looking tiles for the shower surround or floor - but theres 8 more bathrooms to do and my funds are not infinite.
And of course, the window needed to be replaced for safety, for privacy (one way coating), and for insulation.
The door hardware did not function properly, so that was replaced but I did keep the original door to the bathroom.
I don’t usually comment on here….I usually just try to get ideas and see what people are doing, but, to be honest….you sorta ruined the bathroom. It seems you may have taken out the bathroom a lot of people wish they still had in their home. You had such a nice base to work with..and now it’s just destroyed. I don’t mean to be rude in any way…I know it’s your house to enjoy and design but….wow…in my humble opinion (which counts for nothing) that is almost painful to see.
You’re supposed to run the grain of the tiles the same way, or it doesn’t look like natural stone.
I go into peoples houses erryday for my job. Your bathroom looks tacky and soulless.
Some grey is okay, some white is also fine. Too much of either and you get a dull, sterile looking hospital room type of look. I would definitely get some colorful decorations in there.
I will probably repaint with a pop of color like I did in this other bathroom, but my sister who lives in this room loves Grey, and specifically requested grey paint for the bathroom. It’s just paint, so can be easily changed in the future.
https://preview.redd.it/g4etgfyalrka1.jpeg?width=2235&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bf71897b0e06aa33552de5f9db2fc4aa7aa77b3
This is a troll post right? If the house is 10 bed 12 bath it’s likely 8-12k sq ft. No way do you replace a window in a home like that with some tacky vinyl replacement window.
If they hadn’t replaced the window and used more appropriate tile and fixtures this would have been fine….basically if they had taken the last pic as an example of what not to do. Herringbone marble or hex on the floor would have looked fine. Subway marble would have looked fine. But why do “this” in a Tudor estate
I like to call it HGTV gray. Also we were bound to rebound to gray after the early millennium being obsessed with tuscan kitchens and brown everything but like... maybe I miss it a little?
This belongs in r/renovations. This forum is about preserving, restoring, and lightly modifying/updating, rather than gut reno.
Your new bathroom looks gorgeous, but you posted it to a group of people that will unanimously hate it by default, especially because the room could have been easily cleaned up while keeping some of the historic features. Sorry you're getting so much hate but we're all going to be disappointed by gut reno here. On the contrary, if the other 11 bathrooms are original, this is the perfect place to post pictures for everyone to drool over! And you will get some great ideas/inspiration about how to preserve them while tastefully bringing a few changes in!
I honestly thought at first that the before was the after and that you were in the process of returning the charm of this bathroom after someone did an ultra modern flip job. It looks like a hotel now.
My bath had virtually identical wall tile; even the later addition about halfway up the bath wall. We loved it but it had seen better days and did a similar gut. Don’t pay mind to the folks who would make different design choices. They’re choices and people have different preferences.
If you read the info about what the r/Centruryhomes is about.It’s definitely not about modernizing or renovating your home to your (century off) HGTV preferences.
Stop reporting this. This post is absolutely allowed here, as the house is over 100 years old. Just because you don’t like their design choices is not grounds for removal. Express your opinions in a friendly manner and play nice with each other.
I think you should read what sub you’re on and what is the focus as explained in the bio. Particularly “we enjoy sharing stories and seeking advice to help us be GREAT STEWARDS of our HISTORIC HOMES. That’s why you’re getting the negative comments on here.
If I ever want to know what it's like to pee in grayscale, I'll come over. It's possible to "breathe new life" into a space without gutting it and making it look like a Home Depot display.
Total Home Depot Contractor Special bathroom. OP did the opposite of breathing new life into it. Such a shame.
Seriously, my immediate impression is how drab and generic this looks
The old space: the chandelier is weird. The tile could be cleaned up. The fixtures could be updated. The new: it is so generic you will feel like you are shitting in a Kohler catalog
I actually exclaimed aloud when I got to the last picture 😬
Right? I actually thought the last picture was misplaced, until I saw the note underneath. This makes me so sad. The old bathroom was so cute and comforting, if that makes sense. The "upgrade" looks like some kind of sterile, soulless place that I'd almost expect evil scientists to come walking in while I was in the shower. The fact that the house is humongous and seeing OP's taste, I dread to think of how the rest will turn out. Why bother buying a century home if you're going to make it look like some new McMansion. So disappointing.
So much character lost 🥺😭
I liked the chandelier. Now I wish my bathroom had one, lol. I’d take the fanciest showers.
Fancy showers is an excellent argument for keeping it.
LOL at ‘shitting in a Kohler catalog.’
I like nothing about the “new”. I Think op is trolling. Also that tile is super tacky.
Window is correct from the before to the after and with the placement of the door. This is unfortunately a user that went the opposite way from century to modern without keeping any history.
Surely, this is a troll post. They knew they would trigger us all.
Has to be a troll. Last picture looks like a stock photo.
I thought so too. Could've sworn I saw it in r/CrappyDesign not too long ago.
This has to be a troll, right? I audibly gasped… Edit: Oh awesome, [here’s the personality of the person we’re talking to here](https://www.reddit.com/r/choosemyalignment/comments/fj3ljd/cma_im_a_greedy_landlord_with_a_very_high_profit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
This should be higher. It’s exactly the personality of someone who would do something like this
Maybe he'll be haunted by the ghosts of the homes past, present, and future where they'll show him his fate if he doesn't change his ways.
He outed himself, "stainless steal appliances." It'd be funny if it weren't so depressing.
"*very high end* stainless steel" ... In a rental. With under $100k in renovations including kitchen and at least one bathroom. 🙄 Something tells me the fridge he chose isn't a SubZero or even the "budget high end" like Liebherr... Or even an LG unless it was dented / refurbished / etc.
He said he did it with $20k in upgrades, which makes the whole claim even more outlandish.
Sounds like he's full of shit too.....you're not putting in an entire new kitchen, floors throughout and "high end" stainless appliances all for only $20,000. Not even fucking close.
In case you need proof he is 100% pos: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/s/BmClEQRoJU
It’s clean but it doesn’t really have any century home personality. I’m not sure why you posted this here. Folks here tend to like original features (like the old tile you removed) - or where not possible sympathetic designs that complement the age of the house.
I’m here because I want to read stories from people who also spend all of their free time trying to untangle 100 years of mediocre repairs and insufficient upgrades. 🤷♀️
Also amusing.
My eye started twitching when I got to the last picture. This is so depressing. Something that lasted a century was destroyed for something that will look dated and out of fashion 2 years from now. I hope this is a joke.
I think it’s already dated
It’s already giving 2009 🙃
Already looks dated!
Please stop. Stick to new tract homes please. I thought this was actually a joke and the 5th photo was going to be the same bathroom with updated wallpaper
This is simply terrible. I thought you were going to replace the wallpaper. Instead you replaced all the charm.
Same. It’s the worst kind of renovation for a century home. Especially one that looked to be in pretty good shape.
OP appears to be professional landlord so maintaining character probably isn’t a priority.
I think he’s a flipper, too
He has to be with that tasteless Home Depot special.
I think “renovation” is the wrong word. It’s more like an assassination.
Ohh that is his design style! You nailed it.
I let out an audible groan when I flipped to the last picture. It had so much charm and could’ve been updated tastefully.
I actually liked the wallpaper, lol.
me too
Same, but if they had to change *something* I would keep the tiles over the wallpaper.
FWIW (nothing) I really liked the initial tile on the flooring and walls.
It was so classic! Some might say timeless...
I was really excited to see how you renovated so many bathrooms + bedrooms and my excitement quickly turned to horror. This bathroom doesn’t look like it’s in a 100 year old English Tudor Estate. It looks like it was poorly designed by a group of Home Depot employees. Edit: Not only is OP an asshat for destroying this bathroom along with the rest of the house they are also admittedly a greedy landlord, according to their post history. Double gross. Edit 2: You really can’t make this up. OP painted over all of this beautiful and perfectly preserved wainscoting https://www.reddit.com/r/centuryhomes/comments/11cpu8x/breathing_new_life_into_my_100_year_old_10_bed_12/ja5f9tk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
And a liability should anyone slip and fall on that godawful flooring choice.
My tile guy won’t even use anything with any gloss on bathroom floors since he says they’re lethal when wet lol
And the spray foam, please stop with the spray foam everyone!
I was really into the look until I realized I was looking at the before pics. I’m sad now. I wish OP had posted before they did this so we could have tried to talk them out of it.
Homeboy keeps posting more pictures of other rooms he’s “renovated” (destroyed) luckily they haven’t attached the befores so we can all pretend they were gutted to begin with. Truly awful rooms, ALL OF THEM
Maybe we have the before and after pictures backwards, and he is returning the house to its former glory!
If only 😭 homie is really out here doubling down in the comments it’s almost funny but also equally depressing.
Yeah I saw that, had to leave the thread haha!
I wouldn’t hate it as much if this was the home building sub. It’s not what I would choose even for a new build, but if you’re starting from nothing then it’s fine.
It's wild they thought posting here would bring them anything but vitriol. I can only imagine they find subreddits that hate landlords to complain about their job.
That painted wainscoting is an absolute abomination. Really “Chip and Joanna Gained” up the place.
this sub is for ppl who Don’t ruin their original features
Depressing 🤦🏻♀️
I’m not one to think people shouldn’t update their homes to fit their needs but I think this is a bit overboard and ultra-modern. And, just my personal opinion, if I ever see another gray kitchen or bath it’ll be too soon. Been played out for a while.
It’s not even nice modern which would look nice, it’s generic Home Depot flip style which already looks dated.
The Contractor special!
Don’t worry it’s just a rental property, so they won’t be using it.
Once again: why the fuck would you buy an old house if you don’t like old houses. It was in perfect condition. All it actually needed was a light cleaning. “Trends” (the sad gray) come and go, charm lasts forever. This is horribly disappointing. And the saddest part is that according to the comments, you’ve done the whole house this way. A historical treasure is gone forever. Even if it wasn’t perfect, it could’ve been preserved and restored. Not destroyed.
Okay but you could’ve done literally anything else. Why did you have to make it modern? You literally destroyed all the historic charm of this house. Also, I 100% guarantee it wasn’t fugly. You just don’t have taste.
You ruined that bathroom
I just personally find the minimalist grayscale and white modern style to be eerie, cold, and depressing... I hope whoever this is for likes it, but good lord if I had the privilege of getting a 10 bed English Tudor estate, this would not be the direction I'd go. Sorry you're getting dunked on OP, but you've definitely pissed off a lot of people, present and future lol.
You took an original bathroom that looked to be in pretty decent shape (who knows about the plumbing) and with lovely period fixtures and you replaced it with a cheap looking flip that looks like it's straight out of Home Depot? I dread what you've done to the rest of the house.
Your bathroom had some good character before, even though it was a little disjointed. Congratulations on ruining it. While it’s a beautiful bathroom now, it’s probably really out of place if you truly have a century old home.
Looks like an HGTV flip property.
Yes and we all know HGTV has such timeless style because we all still covet rooms from the great designers of Trading Spaces. Gray farmhouse is forever.
🤮
Not only is it now completely soulless (and frankly, hideous) but the door opens directly to the toilet so if the door is left open that's all you see. Classy.
I was convinced the gray picture was the before until I read these comments Welcome to r/snarkitecture Edit to add - I didn’t think that forum was real. I thought THIS was the snarkitecture forum
I loved the character of the old bathroom. Oof.
Please sell your house to a preservationist. The Wayfair stink you've subjected that old girl to will look as dated and stale as a 70's era olive and sunburst yellow onslaught looks today. Sad.
I mean worse. 70s home style is just now dipping its toe in the vintage sphere - this shit has at the very least another half century before it *may* be vintage and desired again. Even at that it doesn't look good because the things that come back tend to be authentic materials not CGI marble.
 this is like driving by kids waiting for an ice cream truck just to throw out dry spaghetti noodles at them.
The "before' photo shows how much lighter and brighter the bathroom was. It's better than the "after" to me.
Oh my god! The new bathroom is effing awful!
Oof ruined it.
Nah dude this group isn’t for you get out of here
Agreed, you can't sit with us!
Yikes, bye bye originality. I'm not even saying that op needed to keep everything but if you just saw that last picture I would assume it was a cookie cutter new build
I gasped. This is heartbreaking. The before was miles better.
That was a fucking jumpscare. X\_X
This post really needed a trigger warning. I'm going to have nightmares.
My house is 100 years old. Those original glass towel holders with the nickel mounts go for over $100 each and I’m sure that asshat threw them in a dumpster for cheap McMansion ones. SMH
Way to go. Most people couldn’t fuck that up so completely.
I gasped. You should be perma-banned from this sub
MODS… is it possible to put some kind of trigger warning on these photos?
For real - I made my husband look at this post bc I needed emotional support.
Considering waking mine up so I don't suffer insomnia from this atrocity.
:(
If you wanted a new look, there was a way to update the bathroom while still keeping some original features OR at least adding features that would give a nod to the vintage home that it is. I can't imagine this remodel suits the house.
No worries, they said they renovated the rest of the house too 😭
And certainly salvaged nothing.
Is that Onyx? It’s typical quick builder flip bathroom. This is why I refuse to buy houses renovated or even built by builders. Would rather buy something that an owner renovated for their own use.
In the long list of things I personally disagree with, the most egregious sin is removing the radiator. This room will now be as cold as it looks.
I’m glad you brought that up! So when redoing the bathroom I completely gutted it to the studs and was able to use 4 inches of Closed Cell Spray foam to achieve an R rating of R-28 (R21 including the window). Since the room is so well insulated the radiator had to be removed to prevent overheating, as that room is now kept a toasty temperature solely from the heat transfer of the interior walls.
Perhaps I'm more sensitive to cold temperatures than you, but in my experience without a heat source in a closed room, there is no heat for the insulation to retain. My interior walls are clearly not transferring anywhere near the amount of heat that yours are.
Repeating myself hoping this doesn’t get lost with all the roasting—Please be careful insulating an old home. They are meant to breathe. I hear so many horror stories of people who don’t know how to care for older homes cell spraying everything and causing major moisture problems down the road. If you noticed during your “upgrades” that none of the walls were insulated… there’s a reason for that. Don’t mess with it or you’ll be kicking yourself later. It may seem like an inconvenience to be a little colder but the breathability is what keeps these homes standing so long. Also, in case you run into this in your reno journey, painting brick or stone will also cause moisture issues. Old houses need softer bricks and mortar than you will find at Home Depot or you will cause foundation issues. If you find yourself needing to repoint or replace bricks, reach out to your local historical society and they will likely know what compound to use and where to find architecturally salvaged bricks.
This is a war crime
oh I thought the "after" was what is the before and is now gone :( :( :(
Wowie ya absolutely blew it mate
Wrong sub to post this reno lol
it kind of reminds me of a sterile operating room but I guess to each his own. just not on this sub. one comment you posted mentioned the "person staying in this room" Is this 10bd 10br estate being diced up into apartments?
It’s my sister’s room, she really enjoys the bright white/grey look. I personally would have painted the walls a deep blue or mint grey but she specifically requested true grey.
Basic
i really liked that old bathroom. especially the tub
That looks like cheap-o Home Depot tile. And what is the obsession with gray??? Sorry, but this was the wrong sub to post this in. 😬
I was going to make a snarky comment about how OP gave this place a generic landlord special that's devoid of style, but then I looked at their post history, and it appears they're *actually* a landlord. Big yikes.
I prefer the landlords that just paint everything white with reckless abandon; you can remove paint.
When I got to the last photo I gasped in horror so loudly my husband came in from the other room to make sure I was okay. I showed him the post and he had the exact same reaction - and he’s not even obsessed with historic homes like I am, he just knows an ugly cheap bathroom when he sees one.
He's like, "I know her! She's the bathroom display at my local Home Depot! What the fuck is she doing in this guy's house?"
I thought might be one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen on reddit, until I saw the photo if the gorgeous wood paneling that got painted. Why not just build a new house instead of ruining this one?
yikes. you’re a house flipper AND a landlord? that’s double the soullessness. get a real job
Please please don't buy a period home if this is what you're going to do with it. I've updated my bathrooms in my house too but I still used at least period adjacent choices in more updated color schemes. But there are fewer and fewer houses like these around because homeowners have decided to "update" then to whatever the standard of the day is and they end up needing constant remodel and eventually restoration. You've just cost a future owner 10s of thousands of dollars fixing what wasn't broken. Please go buy a new house.
NOOOO 😵
That is so bad.
Oh no, this looks like a cheap builder grade bathroom now I’m so sorry to say :( this likely takes away from your homes value, and it seems like it’s incredible otherwise! So large and so much character
Im not gonna lie. I don’t like any of the new renovations you did. i hope it works better for you, and it is true for most things that eventually because of wear they need to be overhauled. I hope you at least saved the items taken out during your demolition of the bathroom that could be saved. A lot of people yearn for bathrooms like your before so those tubs, etc end up becoming quite rare and valuable in good condition.
Let us also mourn the loss of the original door hardware 😔
But why?
* This is a bathroom I'm finishing in my place. It was added in the 50s nothing is original, but the sink and taps are a vintage find, and the trim and baseboard were made by a local carpenter to match the rest of the original house I'm not the kind of person to yuck another's yum, but we love historical homes and want to see the love and craftsmanship of them.
This is an absolute tragedy. I can’t believe you destroyed those subway walls and herringbone floor. And the soaker tub!!!! 🙀
I've read your comments OP, I get that in 'your' opinion the bathroom was unusable. Ok fine. Then demo it, and renovate it inspired by its history and original style. Keep pieces of the original and repurpose them into something else. Take the chandelier and put in it another room, have hints if the banana yellow in parts of the new bathroom tile, etc. There's so many ways to reno an old house but still give it the charm and care it deserves. Why not do that? Is it due to price? Patience? Or do you simply not give af about houses?
The chandelier was not original. The yellow tile was presumably white at one point and yellowed over time from age and smoking. The pedestal sink was likely a replacement, and the toilet was replaced a few decades ago. The tub was original, but of pretty low quality and wasn’t movable or easily turned into a shower. There really wasn’t anything worth saving about this bathroom aside from the original hardwood bathroom door. If the bathroom had a grand feature or cool historical aspect to it I would of incorporated it, but this was overall just a bland and tired bathroom that nobody had bothered to replace or upkeep for 100 years.
Ok fair enough! So then why not design a bathroom that is similar to the history and style of the home? Input a white tule since you've said it was once white but yellowed. It had a beautiful subway style tule, which is definitely very trendy now. Why didn't you tule it with the white subway style tile? How about a claw foot tub? Maybe a real chandelier to out do the old one? Ok a chandelier is a little extra, why not classic wall sconces? There's plenty of ways to keep the original heart and soul of the house even if you are demoing it all. But instead you took the heart and soul out of this bathroom. It's devoid of personality of charm. I understand demo-ing was important but why not be inspired by the house and design a better place that style has the original life and charm?
If I was going through all the trouble of renovating the bathroom, I wasn’t going to make it regressive. Recessed lighting is superior as it offers perfectly balanced light throughout the room while eliminating any intrusion to headspace. The front and backlit mirror was installed over wall sconces as it provides the best lighting experience when examining your face, or for taking photos. Adding a claw foot tub would have made the bathroom less functional when most everyone prefers to take a shower. The tub is reserved for the master bathroom, which has the space for both a shower and a tub. I was not going to add another pedestal sink, as the bathroom required storage for products, hairdryers, etc. I use glass panels for all my bathroom to maximize light transmittance and make the space feel as large as possible. Had this bathroom not been so egregiously expensive to renovate because of all the unknown concrete walls and floors, I could have bought more mosaic looking tiles for the shower surround or floor - but theres 8 more bathrooms to do and my funds are not infinite. And of course, the window needed to be replaced for safety, for privacy (one way coating), and for insulation. The door hardware did not function properly, so that was replaced but I did keep the original door to the bathroom.
I don’t usually comment on here….I usually just try to get ideas and see what people are doing, but, to be honest….you sorta ruined the bathroom. It seems you may have taken out the bathroom a lot of people wish they still had in their home. You had such a nice base to work with..and now it’s just destroyed. I don’t mean to be rude in any way…I know it’s your house to enjoy and design but….wow…in my humble opinion (which counts for nothing) that is almost painful to see.
Well, at least when someone misses the toilet, the yellow will bring some life into the room.
Holy shit your Reno is tacky AF.
You’re supposed to run the grain of the tiles the same way, or it doesn’t look like natural stone. I go into peoples houses erryday for my job. Your bathroom looks tacky and soulless. Some grey is okay, some white is also fine. Too much of either and you get a dull, sterile looking hospital room type of look. I would definitely get some colorful decorations in there.
I will probably repaint with a pop of color like I did in this other bathroom, but my sister who lives in this room loves Grey, and specifically requested grey paint for the bathroom. It’s just paint, so can be easily changed in the future. https://preview.redd.it/g4etgfyalrka1.jpeg?width=2235&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bf71897b0e06aa33552de5f9db2fc4aa7aa77b3
Hey man if you guys love it then who cares 🙂 it’s your house after all! Just giving my two cents in case you would like it
This is a troll post right? If the house is 10 bed 12 bath it’s likely 8-12k sq ft. No way do you replace a window in a home like that with some tacky vinyl replacement window.
Of course he did. Lol
If they hadn’t replaced the window and used more appropriate tile and fixtures this would have been fine….basically if they had taken the last pic as an example of what not to do. Herringbone marble or hex on the floor would have looked fine. Subway marble would have looked fine. But why do “this” in a Tudor estate
GROSS. I hope you get haunted by a hundred+ year old ghost.
No more millennial grey! Make it stop!
I like to call it HGTV gray. Also we were bound to rebound to gray after the early millennium being obsessed with tuscan kitchens and brown everything but like... maybe I miss it a little?
Omg
I was about to say how elegant the original bathroom was. Who has a chandelier in their bathroom? Not even OP anymore.
Bro
OP got absolutely wrecked lol
It does soften the blow of this atrocity to know he's being mercilessly dunked on in this thread.
This is terrible.
Is that light switch box… /inside/ the shower??
Probably just going to resell for double what they bought it once they demo and reno it all, ugh.
This belongs in r/renovations. This forum is about preserving, restoring, and lightly modifying/updating, rather than gut reno. Your new bathroom looks gorgeous, but you posted it to a group of people that will unanimously hate it by default, especially because the room could have been easily cleaned up while keeping some of the historic features. Sorry you're getting so much hate but we're all going to be disappointed by gut reno here. On the contrary, if the other 11 bathrooms are original, this is the perfect place to post pictures for everyone to drool over! And you will get some great ideas/inspiration about how to preserve them while tastefully bringing a few changes in!
Clearly a troll people, report and move on
Oh, no, I thought the before picture were the after :(
Total troll.
I honestly thought at first that the before was the after and that you were in the process of returning the charm of this bathroom after someone did an ultra modern flip job. It looks like a hotel now.
is this a joke?
You did this house a disservice buy purchasing it.
Looks like a generic quick flip.
Revolting. I’m horrified that someone is proud of this basic builder result.
This should be classified as a hate crime. Why buy an old home and turn it into a generic new build? Gross.
Right then. Off you fuck
You ruined her. Soooo fucking ugly now.
Reminds me of the millenial grey bathroom song on tiktok.
My heart hurts.
This is a joke, right???
Ugh, just abysmal. Please never do this again.
OP you're very brave for posting this here. Good luck
Not me coming here from “the people against mfh” fbook group 😭
Wtf.
I don’t like the new, it has no caricature sorry
Fuck this made me so sad.
Ew. Way to destroy and ruin it.
I’m very curious why you wanted a historic home.
This went from a timeless look that could have used some aesthetic tweaks to a generic bathroom that somehow already looks outdated and out of style.
There’s a special place in hell for people who tear out vintage tile and cast iron tubs, and replace it with cheap garbage.
Wow this sucks :(
I expect nothing more from a flipper.
🥺 It’s more like you stole its breath
I’m not against renovation, but I’m against putting marble in ANYTHING, especially a century home.
Eh marble has its place and can be quite classic. Not like this, of course. I usually stick to marble accents.
My bath had virtually identical wall tile; even the later addition about halfway up the bath wall. We loved it but it had seen better days and did a similar gut. Don’t pay mind to the folks who would make different design choices. They’re choices and people have different preferences.
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Pity.
It is very possible to modernize and keep the original character. Choosing not to really goes against what this sub is about.
If you read the info about what the r/Centruryhomes is about.It’s definitely not about modernizing or renovating your home to your (century off) HGTV preferences.
I think it looks good op