Bathroom

We've actually made some serious unpacking progress this week. A little too much progress as we lost track of time last night and missed a birthday party while we got the TV room in order (with pictures to come.)

We now have two, count them two, rooms that are livable and how we want them.

The bathroom is one. It is completely unpacked. It is completely set up. It is as done as it is going to be for quite awhile, but I hate it.

I HATE OUR BATHROOM!

It is ugly. It is small. It could be so nice, with enough time and money.

Pictures of small rooms are tough, but here we go.


It is very small. There are two closets, for the two bedrooms that flank the bathroom, behind it. Someday they will go away and we will be able to make the bathroom much deeper.


There is virtually no storage in the bathroom so we added this over the toilet, partial shelves under the sink and a large storage unit from Ikea.

CJ and I came from each our own places to this one. I had two bathrooms. CJ had one and a linen closet. We are trying to reduce this two one tiny little bathroom. We've done a good job I think.

The medicine cabinet is one of the only places that there was storage when we moved in. It is tiny and it is cheap. It follows all of the newish things in the house. Eventually we will replace it with a nicer, bigger one. One that is mounted higher than CJ is tall.



There are mixed reviews of the shower head in the TO(M)H household. I love it, CJ hates it.

The lights are newish and cheap.


Then, there are the things that must make me a little mad. When the previous owner left she, as instructed, took everything with her, even the towel racks. She left big holes and we've had to replace them.


She decided that painting the bathroom was a great idea. She chose an awful color, only painted one coat (though it clearly needed two,) and didn't tape anything off. There is paint on all the fixtures, tile, toilet, etc.


While it wasn't the previous owner's fault that we have parquet floors in the bathroom,

it is her fault that there is paint on them.


The only good things about the bathroom are a) that it works and b) like all the other rooms, it has the original woodwork.


While the timeline for the bathroom update is out there in the great unknown, this is what I hope for:
-extend the bathroom to the outside wall, where the closets for the bedrooms are.
-shower fixtures that we both can agree on
-a new, larger vanity and sink
-nice lighting
-a large mirror with medicine cabinet
-tile floors
-some nice built in storage
-pretty paint colors
-plastic insert in the shower instead of tile
-a dual flush toilet


I guess a girl can dream.