The Room that Started it All
This is The Bathroom in our house. It is the one and only bathroom in the entire house, the ugliest room in the house, and the room that one of the pervious owners died in. It’s amazing how one room can be so many horrible things at once. Take a close look at these pictures and observe a few things:
1. There’s a window IN the shower. It not only causes issues with privacy, but also rot, as in the wooden window frame is rotting from the shower water hitting it. This causes water to run between the walls and down the window one floor below it. We’ll be replacing this with a glass-block window. Back in the day when a claw-foot bathtub sat in the bathroom, that window made a lot of sense. Not so much in the 21st century.
2. There’s plastic over the window in the shower. After reading #1, you can probably figure out why.
3. There’s orange carpeting on the floor. This carpeting is the most hated item in our entire home. Not only because it is orange or because a dead body laid on it at one time, but because 3 boys used to live in this house. And we all know about boys and their “aim” when they use the bathroom. I can only imagine what this carpet has absorbed over the years. It is near impossible for me to walk on this carpet in barefeet.
4. There are mysterious spots on the floor. See #3 for why this is so disgusting.
5. The toilet paper holder is on the back of the door. I just think this is weird.
6. The obvious: ugly vanity, nasty tiles that don’t look clean no matter how hard I scrub, and “old lady” wall paper on the walls.
In under 1.5 seconds, this room, with its sheer hideousness, convinced us to remodel our entire house. And here’s why, as briefly as I can possibly explain it: We knew we had to remodel this bathroom ASAP, but we also realized that the house needed a half bath on the first floor to increase its value. We figured we might as well add in a master bath while we were at it to increase the value even more. But, to have a master bath, one needs a master suite. And adding in 2 new bathrooms and creating a master suite meant ripping open three main walls in the house to expose the plumbing and combine two bedrooms. We decided that since the house was going to be ripped up anyways, we’d really RIP. IT. UP. Hence the choice to tackle 90% of our remodeling all at once.
Do know what’s ironic about The Bathroom? We started the remodeling project so we could get rid of it, but it’s going to be the very last room that gets touched. You see, once we demo The Bathroom, there will be no functioning bathroom in the house (the even creepier indoor outhouse in the basement doesn’t count as a bathroom). So, we have to wait until the new master bath with new shower is completed until the demolition of The Bathroom begins. It makes me hate it even more.
I liked the indoor outhouse.