I managed to save my circular saw blade when cutting the backer board by flipping it around the wrong directly like everyone said to do online, but I'm pretty sure I'll get lung cancer from the experience. My jig saw blade could not be salvaged after a very short cut.
Building the cabinet was surprisingly painful. I always forget how much planning goes into having it turn out to fit when you get done. I invested in a Kreg pocket hole jig so I could screw together the face plate and that turned out pretty well. I have never invested in a set of big pipe clamps, so that was my only other alternative for getting the face glued together.
This was my first time tiling anything of consequence. Apart from sore knees and sore back, and being really boring, it was not bad.
The beadboard actually went up over a period measured in years, but I synced up the completion of the beadboard with this remodel. Here are some pictures of the finished product. Actually, I shouldn't say it is finished, but at least the stuff I started got finished.
If you zoom in you may be able to see the custom baseboard carve-out for the toilet hose. It is junk like that which pushed out schedule. I noticed that the baseboard was going to collide with the hose right as I was installing that baseboard. Ugh.
This stupid jut comes to a "point" with two crazy angles. Fitting all these was a nightmare.
That crazy dip in the baseboard you'll notice in the next picture in because I forgot how tall the baseboards were and if I left it the full height as it ran into the cabinet that wall-side door would not open.
