My god, it's full of... wasted space.

Here's another project I had to do pretty much immediately as soon as I moved in. The main bathroom had this enormous linen closet (AKA The Monolith) that took up almost one square yard of floorspace. Now, the bathroom isn't exactly tiny, but it's not huge either. This thing went from floor to ceiling and could hold enough linens for a family of 8. Yea no. That's out of here.


You can see here that even from an angle it pokes out and is in the way. It's almost as far out as the toilet! It. has. to. go.

Soon, you will die.

I tried to save as much of the facing off of it as I could, since it's nice finished maple and I might a) need it to fix one of the other cabinets, or 2) use it in some other project. So prying away on the front face was careful work.


Once I got the shelves out though, it was demolition with pure gusto! Please ignore the status of my hair, it's normally like that most of the time.


Here you can see me wondering why the wall doesn't line up. Apparently the bathroom was originally walled in lath and plaster, THEN when the tub was remodeled sometime during the 80's they put drywall over the top of it. I bought a sheet of moisture resistant drywall so I can level things up, I just need to get it cut and installed so we can paint.

Now it's all gone, and you can see all the space that's opened up! Right where my feet are is where the cabinet used to be. Unfortunately, when they put in the cheap tile floor they didn't raise up this monstrosity, so there's two grooves in the tiles where the sides went in. I've not had any luck finding the cheap-ass tiles to tear up and replace, so I may end up redoing the entire floor. If I do, it'll be when I get rid of that horrid 80's style sliding glass door/RV fiberglass shower that's currently there. The next bathroom project was to replace the 1950's Communist era bare bulb light fixture, but I refuse to go into it. It did not go well.