OVERCOMING
BASEMENT
BATHROOM
BLUES
By Matt Weber
Photos by Hal Jones, Matt Weber
Creative thinking combined
with innovate building products
give rise to a beautiful
basement bathroom.
Hal Jones, online media director of the Extreme How-To, was adding a new bathroom in the partially finished basement of his family’s
lake house. Working in his favor was the fact that
the unfinished space gave him a fresh canvas on
which to install the bathroom amenities. However,
working against him was limited square footage
because the adjacent areas had already been
partitioned into finished rooms. Plus, the area of
construction was located on a solid concrete slab,
with no drain system in place. Here’s how Hal
employed traditional techniques, state-of-the-art
fixtures and new DIY-friendly materials to conquer
those obstacles and create a bathroom to brag
about.
