The last unfinished room is the upstairs en-suite bathroom. This one has some practical challenges, as it’s on a single layer wooden floor with the kitchen beneath it. Obviously I don’t want sewage pipes showing over the stove. So I opted for a toilet that can be built into the wall.  The toilet exhaust will go down at an angle, then straight for a bit, before going vertically down to the main sewage pipe under the house.

This pipe goes through the log wall, which is solid and thick, but with some long drills, chisels and reciprocal saw I managed to get a pipe through the wall.
All pipes here are temporary and unglued, as I also need to connect the shower pan to this pipe. The shower will be to the right of the toilet.

To prevent toilet water going to the shower pan, the pan will be elevated from the floor, which is also needed to be able to add a water lock to prevent sewage smells coming into the bathroom through the shower pan.

Big Bend National Park is the most impressive park nearby (nearby is a relative thing in Texas: about a six hours drive). It’s a huge desert, and towards the Mexican border it has some dramatic mountain ridges.

I took this picture a few years ago myself, printed on my large format printer in Holland on vinyl using pdq (the software I developed for driving roll printers), and took it with me in my suitcase. So you now can take a shower standing in the middle of Big Bend, or soak in the freestanding tub.