THE TINY HALF-BATH LOOKED LIKE IT HAD BEEN

The tiny half-bath looked like it had been swallowed by a mirror trap.

When the poster finally finished the renovation, they shared it with one goal: to make the cramped space feel as large as possible, with "a big, starry future, perhaps with a multiverse." The inspiration came from a mashup of "Flight of the Navigator's silvery spaceship" and Yayoi Kusama's infinity mirrors, a half-bath built to feel less like a powder room and more like a jump point.

The poster summed up the project in a line that did a lot of lifting: "Not an artist, just a handyman w/ random skills." They also admitted the plan seemed simple at first. "Thought this was gonna be easy. It wasn't."

The work inside was anything but basic. Every mirror was hand-cut, and the poster didn't sugarcoat the process: "Cutting mirrors is hard. I broke a lot learning." The floor had its own problem. The tiles they wanted to use were "not rated for walking," so the space had to be structurally built out with solid epoxy to make it work. Underfoot, the result was designed to hold up where the original material could not.

The countertop became another reinvention. It was made from mirrored stainless steel set over wood-filled epoxy, giving the room a sharp, reflective surface that fit the rest of the design. Lighting was another layer entirely: eclectic LEDs were built into the room, and a motion sensor turns them, and the toilet seat, on. The toilet seat itself was cast in epoxy, with lights and wiring embedded into it.

What began as a tiny half-bath ended as a tightly packed showcase of reflections, glow, and improvised engineering. The poster said the renovation is now complete "except for painting the door," which is the last unfinished piece in a room that already looks far from ordinary.

By the end, the reaction seems as split as the room is shiny. "People seem to either love it or hate it!" the poster wrote.