The Bathroom Saga, Part 1 of Infinity
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by Christina at
3/6/2009 1:04 PM PST
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The story of the bathroom remodel is really more than one blog post worth, so I'll be touching on this topic much more (mostly because it's the only room that is even remotely close to finished). But before I can get into all the gory details, I have to start somewhere, right? Well, that somewhere is here.
Meet the original bathroom. Prior to our purchase, this home had been the residence of a very large family (seven children) and this was their only bathroom. Oh, and the bathroom was only accessible from the back bedroom. So, I would like to take this moment to register my awe and amazement that this family didn't go completely insane with such a cumbersome arrangement. That said, it was an arrangement that neither Errek nor myself had the fortitude to handle. No, it was time to make some changes.
First off, we didn't like the color. It was yellow. And by yellow, I mean it was YELLOW! Along one wall was the 5 foot long yellow counter top which held a small yellow sink. At the far end was the yellow tub surrounded by yellow tile. I'll give you three guesses what color they painted the ceiling. It was like being the cream inside a man-sized Twinkie.
On top of the excessive use of yellow, the bathroom had other problems. As I mentioned, it's accessibility was problematic. We needed to be able to access the bathroom without having to enter the back bedroom. Also, the door placement was very inconvenient. To enter the room you had to open the door a full 180 degrees only to then have to close the door a full 180 degrees in order to gain the needed privacy a bathroom demands. In addition, the ceiling was dropped down about a foot and a half, leaving just a seven foot clearance. And last, but certainly not least, there was extensive termite damage in the walls and floor.
In a nutshell, we needed to completely gut the bathroom, replace all termite damaged wood, move the bathroom forward by about 6 feet in order to make it accessible from the living room, widen it by about a foot, and completely update...well...everything.
This was no simple task.
 The bathroom was layered with ugly.
Yep, that's what we found under the tub. It was the makings of our very own Money Pit style tub-through-the-floor moment. Funny as that scene was in the movie, it's probably best to avoid those moments in real life.
 And here is our after shot. Well, not really, this was just the "after-demolition" shot. You didn't really think I was going to show you photos of my stunning and rediculously good looking bathroom in the third blog did you? What kind of a girl do you think I am? Nope this photo simply documents the now-this-we-can-work-with-but-where-will-we-pee phase of construction, which was followed soon after by the let's-install-a-temporary-toilet-and-sink phase, but that's a whole other blog.
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