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- čas přidán 21. 01. 2024
- This Week Is all about the shower. We are so close! Enjoy!
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Doing all these projects, aesthetic as they are, is dirty, filthy work. Having your own fancy shmancy shower on the premises is the lap of luxury and a game changer. CHEERS!
I had forgotten what the vet clinic room looked like, and when you showed the old video of that room-WOW! What a difference. The restoration you’ve done is simply fantastic! The love and attention to methods and details really shines through. Your tiling looks great too. I’d have never guessed you’d never done this before. You truly have a gift for this kind of work, and I think you’ll be very successful going forward. Wonderful update! Take care and can’t wait to see the progress next time!
A suggestion, insulate that ceiling before you close it in. I did that in my finished basement and it stays warm down there.
thats the plan. we have to keep it open for until all the electric in the house is complete.
How about the outer wall walls? Insulation?@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack
Absolutely agree. You will never regret it. Insulate, insulate and use sound proofing insulation for internal walls.
I agree 100%. ♥️😊👍
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBackplease tell me you aren’t planning to drywall the ceiling.
Love the addition of the black stripe at the top of the shower. It looks so good, all of it!!!
I’ve been with this channel since the beginning and I must say how glad I am you are taking us on your journey with building this masterpiece.
I remember the early days with one light on an extension cord, no heat, eating food from a can... I'm almost as happy about your shower getting finished as you are!
I just LOVE HOW YOU GET SO EXCITED ABOUT HISTORY!!!! And yes, it looks SOOOOOO GOOD!!!!
You just make me smile. Your craftsmanship and attention to detail are awesome. Your excitement about the history is infectious. Great job Caleb. I hope you can enjoy that shower soon.
Indoor plumbing. One of the 7 greatest wonders of the world.
I totally agree!
What a great painter you are to not even have to put down a drop cloth
I was amazed you paint w/o a drop cloth. I have a BFA degree in painting...LOL and usually have a noticeable amount of paint on my drop cloth or paper to see the color I've been painting with. Your paint bucket was so far from the wall too. I would have had a line of drips from the the can to the wall!!!
Or use painter’s tape! Kaleb, you must have one steady hand!
The tile floor is looking so good now with all the newer walls and things around it. It definitely needs to be buffed or something though. That shower is going to be amazing! And I like light walls in basements because they tend to be so dark.
I’ll bet he wishes he thought of buffing those floors. 😂😂😂
Perfection as always. Well done, Kaleb. You should be very proud of yourself.
Kaleb your skill and application to the challenges in your house never ceases to amaze. There’s nothing better than knowing you can take a shower in your own home to wash away the grime of a hard days graft. It’s been a long time coming but not long now until you can do just that! Amazing. Love your channel, best wishes from the UK 🇬🇧
Looking good. You can’t rush these things. Just take pride in what you’re doing as you always have and don’t worry about the timescale. ❤
It must be a great feeling you're going through. Can you imagine when the last piece of the puzzle is completed how that is going to feel? I'll bet a buck or two you'll probably have to hold back a tear or two.
We all will be crying.
This is such a long term slog, it will never be 100%, there will always be something wearing out by the time the last thing is done! A labour of love, and a project for life!
You are doing a great job. Everything is beautiful…very authentic to the house. Your perseverance is paying off. Keep up the good work!
I’ve heard great things about those showers. When I was a kid my class toured the Pittock mansion in Portland Oregon…it had the needle showers. Very impressive. I think you will love it. There was one on Marketplace recently…it was VERY expensive…thousands$$. I’m glad you have one!
Have you thought about turning that crown, pencil, and accent stripe tile vertically to end the field tile? Seems to me that would be the cleaner way to end it, and no unglazed edges would show.
thats an interesting idea.
Yes! Like a frame all round.
I think this is the best idea I have seen! Hopefully Kaleb goes with it.
Gosh that shower is going to be absolutely gorgeous.
It was nice to hear Kim. Hope she is doing well. Would love to see her in some of the videos.
The shower is just coming along beautifully and I bet your counting the days till you can use it. Thanks as always for sharing Caleb. Have a great week! ❤❤
Flushing toilet and a shower.👏👏 Have a great week!!❤️🤍💙
I think I would paint the access panel door so it disappears and provides a less cluttered, more open appearance. Looking beautiful!
The shower tiles that you chose in black-and-white are perfect for this part of the home that was renovated in the 1920’s. I grew up in a home that was built in 1929 and our master bathroom had very similar black and white tiles. Bravo on your restoration of this beautiful old girl👏
Good morning Kaleb, your working on this old mansion is coming along well, watching it on Monday is really a treat, you explain what your doing and gettin it done as u going through the process. Thanks for sharing. You take care. 📸🤓👍
The shower looks great. We finished off part of our basement. We used black and white tiles on the floor, but we used pressed tin panels on the ceiling, fastened with hex screws. We found that when we later needed to access mechanicals in that ceiling, that it was much easier to unscrew a few panels than to cut into drywall. Press tin is still made in a variety of delightful vintage patterns.
Tiles are looking fantastic! Good job - it's hard to believe that's yours first attempt. I've seen a lot of tiles on walls placed by professionals and some of them wasn't quite as nice. You made it with love and care - and it really matters!
That shower is coming along nicely! As for an edge, have you considered wrapping that crown around the edge instead of that plastic edging? That's what they would have done with a border tile like that in the old days. If you stick with the plastic edging it will look nice too. Just be aware that white plastic tends to yellow over time.
I love when a room starts to come together! It's great satisfaction, and everything seems to happen fast when rooms are near the stage of completion! The old vets office is looking amazing!
In Norway we have these rounded tiles for corners that'd look way better than plastic aswell. Isn't that a thing in the states?
I second doing crown around the edges !
@@jubmelahtesyes, it is a thing, here in North America. I don’t know why he’s not using it. If he explained, I missed it.🇨🇦
I'm confused, too, as to why he's not using narrow tiles with a rounded edge. They do make them. I'm worried not just about yellowing, but also about the plastic becoming brittle. Carrying heavy or large things past there, it seems like the plastic could shatter or be crushed...
The shower looks really good! What sort of door / barrier is going in for it? I bet the needle shower is going to get water everywhere.
curtain
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack A curtain is historically accurate of course. I don't know if you know that you can buy (or sew) a curtain with fabric weights at the bottom. Also accurate, and it may be the difference between the curtain blowing away from all the needle spray or not
I love the black band at the top of the shower. You’re so correct it truly ties the bottom to the top very well. I’m so excited for y’all finally getting a shower at home. Next, a bathtub. LoL
Watching from UK, Been following you since the beginning, your home will be just glorious when it's finished, it is a very special house❤
Amazing restoration and preservation.
I would recommend returning the crown tiles 90 degrees down to the dam like a picture frame. They would then create the end cap with no need for the plastic cap and it would solve the crown termination issue. Looking good though!
Great idea!!
I rarely make comments on videos, but I have been following you for over a year. I am a 61 year old designer, and my little pink brain instantly goes into problem solving mode. I love what you are doing and it is important! Saving our past is passion that I wish more people had. Bravo! Keep it up! Looking forward to the mansard roof restore!!@@kristinrogersdotter5492
This would be the best option surely. Good thinking.
Looking great!
Beautiful, what a great job you're doing
It's called sanitary tile so wash the floors water doesn't puddle in the cracks. Great video!!!
Beautiful! To me, there is nothing prettier than this bathroom style. I just love the black and white.
I love that you have tried so hard to make everything historically accurate. I hate when someone takes a house like this and knocks down all the walls and puts in modern stuff.
Enjoy your hard earned and well deserved shower!
Looking great! Can’t wait to see the finished shower with the needle shower installed.
Oh and by the way, I think got might be time to update the video caption? “Projects to be completed in 2022”… I’d like to know what the plans for 2024 are, beyond the shower, the mansard roof and the stone facade. (Not that that’s not enough..)
We'll totally need a shower in use update!
For the pencil and top tiles, you should try cutting the edge on a 45 and making a thin 45 degree piece to end it into the wall, so it's not ending on an unpainted, and unglazed edge. That's how people end their ceiling coving, so it should look good for tiling too.
The inner corner gap filled in nicely.Looks great!!
Wow ! Looking great ! Happy for your progress !
The shower and room are already so pretty I can't wait for the completion ❤
Love the shower even knowing it’s not complete. I’m excited as you are to see it finished. Everything takes time n $$$ but the reward is endless.
♥️😊👍👍👍🌟👏👏
Having a shower would be a great boost to morale, If it were me, I would focus on the basic utilitarian modern basement kitchen next, although it wont be historical, it would still make an interesting few videos and having a real kitchen would speed up work on the rest of the house
Nice work, Kaleb. Your artistic ability and attention to detail are so wonderful to watch!
Love the shower tile, Caleb. I was a bit thrown off initially by the blue spacers, (duh), but I think the pattern with the floor design is going to be stunning. Watching from PA.
I love that old floor, can't wait to see it cleaned and looking its best. But I suppose... not anytime soon, since you have so much to fix above it yet.
What a difference. :) The floors with the doors and walls look fabulous. You are doing an amazing job for all the "firsts" in your life. 👍
Looking SO good Kaleb. Can't wait to see how it looks all finished!
It's looking fabulous! Take care and get some rest! ❤
Looks fantastic ! Wonderful progress ❤
The shower is Amazing!
I agree! But it looks like 90% of the antique needle shower did not make it into the (semi) finished product.
its not done yet!
I know but it still looks great!@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBack
Looking great! And boy what a difference that paint makes. A world away from the cheap latex we all live with. Makes you just want to run your hands across it.
Kaleb it is going to be absolutely stunning! I love tile work so much!! Hello there from the heart ❤️ of Illinois USA 🇺🇸
Thanks Caleb 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Looking so amazing, Kaleb!!! Great work as always!!
This project is looking great.
Love watching your progress with your house. It is wonderful and a dream come true.
Beautiful, Kaleb and Kim! When I see a classic black and white bathroom-especially combined with a mosaic floor in the Greek Key pattern-it makes me wonder why there is any other choice. Bellisimo! 😍
Lobing your enthusiasm for history. You have done amazing work. Truley look forward to Mondays and yiur videos!
Look good Kaleb! Took a break from shoveling 35 inches of snow from Indiana lake effect snow. Stay warm all.
Having spent the last 8 days without water at my house I completely understand what you mean about getting a shower. My lines finally thawed enough yesterday that hot and cold water have returned. That 1st shower will feel so awesome. It's looking really good.
Kaleb, could you draw out a floor plan for what this basement area will look like when finished? Seeing what is planned for the other areas would help with understanding the relationship between completed/future projects. Also, have you considered adding bullnose tile along the edges of both sides of the shower? The basement looks so much brighter with the paint!
Love the shower, Kaleb! My daughter's home is from the same time period (1910-1920) and she just redid a bathroom. It was all pretty original except somebody replaced the pedestal sink with a vanity in the 80s. She enlarged the room considerably, which meant needing to "recreate" using modern materials. The bath originally had a tub with a shower attachment that was added later and she opted to refinish and reuse the tub but run the tile higher around that area and plumb for a shower.
The entire room originally had white subway tile about 2/3 to 3/4 up the walls all around with a black pencil stripe running around just below the final row of white subway tiles. Those tiles were about half the height of the regular subway tiles. She did the same except she topped the line of black pencil tiles at the top with the same white crown you're using. She had to replace the floor since she'd enlarged the room. It was originally the classic black and white pattern and she opted for the same exact black and white tile configuration but with slightly smaller tiles. And she added a double black and white border around the edge. And, of course, the vanity is long gone, replaced by a big, beautiful pedestal sink. It's new, because she wanted a large one and couldn't find a vintage, salvaged one that was big enough. It has appropriate styling, though.
You'd like her bathroom, I think.
Please don’t chip out the tiles from where the door was. Just add white ones to make the floor complete. Keep the history visible 😊
I'd LOVE to see you take that first shower!! 😍😍
Caleb, you are AMAZING! I love all your attention to detail and authenticity. I'm really hoping that you clear epoxy that floor (after a good cleaning). The epoxy would give it a nice sheen and keep any loosening tiles in place.
Who remembers Kim’s cleaning squares, and the product assessment??
For the exposed ends of the tile, there should be matching "bullnose" subway tiles with a quarter-round glazed edge specifically for this purpose. Your trim tiles may or may not have the same thing, but it's worth checking with your supplier or the manufacturer.
Looks fantastic!! Great job!
I'm gobsmacked! So so so so so beautiful!! Love the top part with the addition of the black and the two different moldings. Incredible!
Wow! Oh Wow! Especially when you threw in that video glimpse of what it was like before. What are you planning for the shower threshold? And that opening at the right hand top, what will that be for? Can't wait until this project is done! Want to see how a needle shower works. Where will you put the soap/shampoo etc.? Sorry for all the questions, I'm just as excited as you are!
These black and white subway tiles are soooo beautiful that i’m going to put them in my future bathroom 😍 and i hope i can get them here in Poland 😅
Looking good. Caleb, Do you still work a day job?
not often no. i have been helping my father with the Lustron the past few weeks.
The cleaner, barkeepers friend works well for rust stains.
Ive had tons of barkeepers friend on the floor and its got me pretty far but didnt take everything.
The shower is looking amazing, and love the light walls that are going to make the space so much brighter
Fantastic, hello from Ireland. We are very lucky to have so many old houses still with original features, I love the Georgian and Victorian houses best. I live in a house from the late 1700's. Most of the old houses in my area are made into several units inside. You are doing an outstanding job and I have been following your progress. We need more people like you who restore the beauty of old homes. You are a history saving hero!
Also from Ireland and also living in a late 1700s house! Totally agree, serious work saving history. The house we live in was unsympathetically ‘restored’ by the owner and it grinds my gears, so much potential lost. Thanks for fighting the good fight, Kaleb!
@@elephante2002 Totally agree about how rage inducing it is when people take old houses and totally modernise them inside making a complete mismatch. Lovely to see channels like this and the love and hard work to bring it back to it's original beauty. Thank you Kaleb, looks like you have a few fans in Ireland as well as all over the world, well deserved.
A product called wink removes rust stains on anything clothes to tile.
U have done such a great job. It looks good, Caleb. U R going to enjoy that first hot shower.
I will let my wife Kim have the first shower.
@@The2ndEmpireStrikesBackor you could conserve water. 😘🤭
Mr. Brown would be very proud of you and where you were bringing this house back to life! It’s looking fantastic!
As far as the discoloration of the tiles. Try to match color with paint and touch up then seal.
I love how thoughtful you are with planning your changes for practicality, while keeping true to the period esthetic. Not always easy to do, and sometimes you have to put in 'the best thing you can find now', with the hope of the perfect antique popping up some time in the future. The needle shower (also heard them called 'ribcage' showers) implies needle-like jets of water rather than the typical spray. I do hope it works. Here hard water deposits would clog it sooner than later. I've had to make the choice to go with modern reproductions on certain things, when the original just won't work. Case in point: the 7.5 gallon tank 1931 original toilet which was technically illegal here in water strapped Southern California by 2003. The shower looks wonderful, and the design just sings with the original flooring. Our period bathroom tile has bull-nose edges, but the vintage flat tiles are much thicker than what is available now. Always a challenge, but those keep life interesting, no? :)
Looking so good! It was great to hear Kim’s voice! You need to get her in the camera frame occasionally 😊
Gorgeous!
looks fantastic. thank you
I love to tile. Always stand back and look at what you've accomplished. Think of the journey since the first day you guys first walked through the house. Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
Shower is looking great! Been waiting to see you put in the needle shower!
toilet, sink and soon a shower. heck yeeeaaah!!!! well done, Kaleb!! soon we can all stay for slumber parties 🤣
Love it!
So....Will the shower will not have a door? Will it be open to the main room??? Would appreciate of u can show us a plan of what u want to achieve in the future......I personally thought the door will be where the wall of the shower ends.....am confused😅
this room is a tricky layout for sure. Had I put a door at the end and extended the wall we would have to loose an an original cabinet (one of those doors). So we opted to move the door on other side of shower and enclose the toilet and sink only. we would have prefer to keep sink out of toilet room as well but with the way the door swings we had no option that allowed that configuration.
LOVE the Subway Tile ! Kinda cool seeing that Old Belt driven Drill Press running. Your Craftsmanship is Amazing, you really pay attention to detail. 😊
Looks beautiful! That touch of black on top and bottom ties in with the floor and looks phenomenal! Can’t wait to see it all complete! Great job, Kaleb! Nice to hear from Kim, too!😊👍
Love the shower tile. Beautiful on the walls and base. Beadwork looks great. Whatever you do is A1 quality. Love to you both and all the critters ❤
Love that black and white look!! Nice, nice tile!
😮 There are no words to express how much I ❤ this shower. Magnificent comes close. Perfect is near. Just wow!🤩
Hello Caleb and Kim... OMG it looks sooo good! I can't wait to see it finished.. Have a great week. Hugs❤
That shower & tile floor is gorgeous. I love the 1920s glamourous look of the whole room. It reminds me of those old b&w movies that show sophisticated, art deco designs that are so luxurious. Perhaps a marble countertop for the sink will be period correct? ( 1920's period not Victorian) because you are right, the house maybe Victorian but the basement is totally 1910-20's and beautiful.
The basement is going to be right up Kim's street!
Wow!! Very nice
You could always take the horizontal crown tile and picture frame it / wrap it and run it vertical.
I am so glad you are saving the tile. I have seen people in other projects rip out this thick tile that you cannot get anymore. And if you can it is very expensive! 😢😮😊
This home is such a labor of love. I really admire your dedication to the whole process and keeping it real to the time period.