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We are redoing our bathroom.  This is a project that has been on the books for some time, but is only now becoming a reality.  In some ways it has been funny—one of those things that we became accustomed to telling people we were going to do, but never really did anything to actually start doing.  For example, the cabinets that were intended for that space have been sitting in our dining room for at least a year now.  At some point we started hanging kid art on them and Christmas decorations and sort of stopped seeing them.

I didn’t take any “before” pictures of my bathroom, so you are just going to have to believe me when I say it was sort of gross.  It was a long beige intestine-shaped thing.  When entering it, you had to reach behind the door to turn on the light before making your way down the narrow and skinny hall that dead ended in a toilet.  Dark.  Creepy.  A little stinky.  The tile was cracked, the grout was flaking, the flooring was not straight, the pedestal sink did not match the basin so the whole thing rocked and shifted, the wall paint was mismatched, there was obvious water damage alongside the tub—there were a lot of problems.  Then the toilet backed up onto the floor and we ripped into the wall to find out why, so there was a huge hole in the wall.  It was all so awful, we just ripped it up!

The wall as you enter will have a really gorgeous cabinet unit that Uncle Rick designed.  I can’t wait to show pictures of it.  For right now enjoy this shot of tar paper and plumbing!

What we are doing in the back is sort of hard to describe.  Because the bathroom was sort of long and stupidly narrow, and because the kitchen on the other side of the bathroom is cramped and poorly laid out, we are actually cutting a chunk out of the bathroom in order to give that space back to the kitchen (at a future date).  Yes, this does create a Count of Monte Cristo creepy holed in area in between the two rooms.

What you are looking at here is the framed-in shower area with the hidey-hole behind it.  How’s about that shower?  As you can see, it is gigantic.  I wanted a shower that the whole family could fit in as (at least at this point in our lives), a shower is a group activity.

Anyone who has lived with construction knows that it is a bit disruptive.  Despite the noise and mess, I love it.  It is so exciting to see what happens each day, even when it is subtle stuff like the new vent being moved or a new plug where there was not one before.  And our contractor Graeme is a really pleasant guy to have around and is doing such a nice job.  I get to feel important each day consulting on where to put integral things like shower hooks and water supplies!  There are new faces in and out of the house each day, but I do worry a bit that so many people see that I take a nap midday.  I know that I might look like a lazy person.  It isn’t true though.  I am just doing a lot of work on my inner soul.

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