Adding a bathroom to a bedroom - Kensington

Framing a new bathroom inside a bedroom

Finished bathroom on left and laundry room on right

View of new shower through pocket door into finished bathroom addition

New floating vanity and tiling on floor and walls  

Almost finished just tackling the final details for the bathroom addition

New shower w/ frameless glass enclosure and we added a window for some natural light and ventilation.

Before...

Existing concrete slab floor meant a subfloor would need to be added to run new drain pipes

its always a suprise when opening up a wall in an older home and seeing into its history. This wall had some surprising discoveries. The big header at the top means this wall was once a huge opening. Closer inspection revealed a carriage style garage door still in place to the left. That was changed to a regular door in the middle of the wall and to the right was the rest of the second garage door. All made of nice redwood (1x10). We salvaged the redwood and reframed the wall. 

I reclaimed this carriage door for the old growth redwood. It was resurfaced and repurposed in all its beauty at Anthony's Cookies in Berkeley

Framing for partition wall and plumbing roughed in and subfloor added.

New bathroom (and laundry room) addition complete!

New concrete landing steps with Redwood and Hog Wire hand railings

New redwood and cement stairs w/ hog wire railings 

Demo of 80+ year old blue schist rock stairs

My blank canvase

Framing for monolithic pour of new landing and steps

Floated and finished 59 bags of 60lb concrete

Forms removed and redwood stairs started

Acid washed to give concrete an exposed aggregate finish

Completed the stairs with redwood and hog wire hand railings

Backyard ADU Construction

New 10'x12' office

Roof is done. Walls are sheeted.

side view

Roof and wall sheeting getting started

side view

I framed all the walls in 1 day

Back wall framing

Subfloor done

Forms removed.
Recycled windows from Urban Ore 

Concrete poured

Forms for foundation

Before

98% done

10ft x 12ft detached backyard office/studio built in Richmond solo-bolo. 

Reclaimed door & windows from Urban Ore.  

Took a month to complete. 
 

Lavish Loft Ladder and copper hand rails for ADU in Albany, Ca

Copper hand rails. Made from real Jatoba. Treads are morticed into side frame. Backyard ADU in Albany needed access for a loft. This ladder is securely mounted to the wall and the floor. 

Cedar Tellis for rose flower vine to stretch out on

2 years later
El Cerrito Hills
western red cedar

Adding a Privacy Panel or Fence Extension for propogating persimmon vine clones to grow over. Without digging post holes or mixing any concrete!

test fitting all the joints one last time before onsite assembly glue-up
4" redwood strips 1/4" thick weaved into frame

Steam bending the weaved boards was necessary to prevent breaking

Privacy panel was supported by (3) 2 1/2" galvanized steel pipes pile driven >30" below grade. there was no way to dig any post holes or pour cement without destroying the existing vegetation  

6 months later

1 year after installation. Almost seams silly to have weaved anything now.