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Mounting the copper sinkAfter seeing the unique copper faucets for the sink and shower from Sonoma Forge in the last post and taking cues from the exposed copper plumbing throughout the Lodge I thought that I had zeroed in on what I would use for the new bath. The Sonoma Forge faucets were indeed beautiful for this application but the cost was prohibitive. I didn’t see any reason why I couldn’t make my own.

Granted mine would not be as refined nor finished but that was OK with me. Mine would probably end up looking a bit more raw but that was part of the fun. After all I did want something a bit fun, whimsical and rustic.

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Hanging the antler lightsWith the custom copper bathtub installed I was free to take on a more simple task. Now it was time to hang the antique elk antler lights that I had rewired in an earlier post.

The lighting had been discovered as an architectural salvage place and needed to be completely rewired which only took a couple of hours to manage.

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 14: Placing the Copper Bathtub

Having completed soldering all the seams of my custom copper bathtub, I was now faced with the most dreaded part of the project: fitting the newly made copper bathtub into place.
I had build both portions separately – independently of each other relying solely on the figures and calculations that I had scribbled across numerous sheets [...]

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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 13: Soldering the Copper Bathtub

After completing making all the tabs, bends and seams for my custom copper bathtub in the last installment, now came time to solder all the seams together making it water-tight. If all of my calculations are correct, when finished I should be able to drop the copper down snugly into the bathtub base.
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Remodeling a Small Bathroom in a Log Home Part 12: The Copper Bathtub Layout

I had finally worked out in my head how I was going to make the custom copper bathtub while finishing up installing the tub base in the last installment of this project.
When I first started the bathroom remodeling project I had decided that the best way to move forward was to make a [...]

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