I have mixed feelings about remodeling our master bathroom.
I really dislike the room, its layout and so much of it being generally unusable space, but it always feel so first-worldy-spoilt to think about spending a big chunk of change on remaking a room, especially since we have 3 other rooms with toilets in them in our house. I mean it rankles me to acknowledge that 4 rooms in our house have toilets and sinks in them; 3 have showers/baths.
Totally first-worldy-spoilt.
And I don't like spending money, in general or particular.
But when I can get myself past the guilt of remodeling our master bathroom, I start to get a little excited about the prospect.
Mostly because it will involve the getting rid of this baby right here:
The heart-shaped tub of love (HSToL) that has never, EVER been used for such purposes.
It isn't even a normal-shaped, HSToL. It is a caddywhompus HSToL. The one time I tried to use it, sometime in 2001, it wasn't comfortable for me, and I didn't have company vying for space (which I assume is the point of a HSToL).
The HSToL has jets, but you use up all the hot water in the house if you try to fill up above the jets. You cannot easily clean the tub because it is so deep and wide.
What bugs me most about the HSToL is that all of the space it uses could be used for storage. I have to keep all of our bath towels in my closet. All of our bandaids and extra deodorant and toilet paper is in the hall closet.
See how much space that danged HSToL takes up in the room?
And this is the funky shower.
The shower head is so low it doesn't hit D where a shower stream should hit. Because he is so tall, the water that does hit bounces up onto the walls because the surround isn't tall enough. Having a surround is supposed to keep walls from getting damp, but this surround was designed for someone who isn't 6'2" tall.
The door whacks the person who is sitting on the toilet in the nose (or threatens to, anyway).
It isn't the worst bathroom in the world, but I am just tired of cleaning of tub we don't use, praying for a fire blower to get rid of soap scum from the too-short shower surround and having to walk into the hallway to retrieve bath items that could be housed in the bathroom.
I really dislike the room, its layout and so much of it being generally unusable space, but it always feel so first-worldy-spoilt to think about spending a big chunk of change on remaking a room, especially since we have 3 other rooms with toilets in them in our house. I mean it rankles me to acknowledge that 4 rooms in our house have toilets and sinks in them; 3 have showers/baths.
Totally first-worldy-spoilt.
And I don't like spending money, in general or particular.
But when I can get myself past the guilt of remodeling our master bathroom, I start to get a little excited about the prospect.
Mostly because it will involve the getting rid of this baby right here:
The heart-shaped tub of love (HSToL) that has never, EVER been used for such purposes.
It isn't even a normal-shaped, HSToL. It is a caddywhompus HSToL. The one time I tried to use it, sometime in 2001, it wasn't comfortable for me, and I didn't have company vying for space (which I assume is the point of a HSToL).
The HSToL has jets, but you use up all the hot water in the house if you try to fill up above the jets. You cannot easily clean the tub because it is so deep and wide.
What bugs me most about the HSToL is that all of the space it uses could be used for storage. I have to keep all of our bath towels in my closet. All of our bandaids and extra deodorant and toilet paper is in the hall closet.
See how much space that danged HSToL takes up in the room?
And this is the funky shower.
The shower head is so low it doesn't hit D where a shower stream should hit. Because he is so tall, the water that does hit bounces up onto the walls because the surround isn't tall enough. Having a surround is supposed to keep walls from getting damp, but this surround was designed for someone who isn't 6'2" tall.
The door whacks the person who is sitting on the toilet in the nose (or threatens to, anyway).
It isn't the worst bathroom in the world, but I am just tired of cleaning of tub we don't use, praying for a fire blower to get rid of soap scum from the too-short shower surround and having to walk into the hallway to retrieve bath items that could be housed in the bathroom.
2 comments:
My wife and I had two bathrooms completely redone a year ago. They were okay but we wanted to update them, figuring maybe it would help with the resale value. One idea to save money is to do the demo yourself, it's a lot of work but saved us a fair amount. Having a great contractor also helped a ton!
Maxwell Frey @ Design Build Duluth
I lived in an older home in the South, and I discovered something about myself and about construction. For me, I didn't need to hire someone to remodel my kitchen from the bottom up. Over time, I did most of it myself, by myself, in my extra time. It's not a bad project to try yourself, or eventually, give up and let a pro do the job right like I did!
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