Ripping Out a 1990s Bathroom

ByMAKE. DO. GROW December 31, 2020 1 min

It’s time for another archive series where we’re going to show you the works we carried out in the upstairs of our Portuguese farm house from December 2020 to the present day.

When we started this project we went back and forth on whether to start upstairs or downstairs. We thought the upstairs would be MUCH simpler and require less work (which is kinda true!) so we decided to start there. Over time things went a bit off track but that’s the nature of renovation projects.

In this video we’ll show you where everything started: with this delightful pink bathroom suite with matching loo roll. We’ll also set the scene a bit and explain why and how we did what we did.

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