Know what’s funny?
Kevin and I have been married almost 22 years (actually, that’s not funny, that’s UNUSUAL), and we’ve never shared a bathroom.
I know, right??
I mean, we shared a bathroom when we lived in our apartment (this was before we were married *GASP*), and then we moved into a rental house six months after Dude was born. The rental house had two bathrooms – he used one and I used one.
Then we moved into this house, which has two bathrooms; he used one and I used one.
Now that our bathrooms have been remodeled/reconfigured, we both use the master bath and the boys use the guest bathroom. (This is indeed a Freudian message to the boys – you are merely GUESTS in our home. We love you and want you to stay as long as you need to in order to save for your future, but you WILL move out one day, like it or not).
Kevin is having a hard time putting up with my “lady stuff,” mainly because he’s never had to share my lady space before now.
I freely admit, I have a lot of lady stuff, but come on ladies, it takes a small truck load of stuff to make ourselves beautiful/presentable every day, am I right?
Okay fine. It takes ME a small truck load of stuff to make myself beautiful/presentable. Ha!
We’re DONE with the bathroom remodel – sort of. There are still a few tweaks “we” have to work on. For example, there is a spot on the ceiling in the front bathroom that needs touching up. Kevin had to install a door on the back bathroom, (it had one of those accordion-style doors before, which, by the way, we’ve put out by our garage, along with Dude’s old (i.e. childish) head board with big huge FREE signs attached. I wonder if anyone took it yet?) The door is installed, but Kevin needs to finish the trim. After that, I will paint the door. And “we” still need to paint our old bathroom cabinet and put it back into our bathroom (which is a short-term solution until we can find a better-quality cabinet that won’t cost an arm and a leg. Seriously. Have you priced cabinets lately? Holy cow …)
BUT, for the most part, they’re done.
And I will kill my husband if he talks me into any more “big” projects in the next ten years.
Here is a before shot of our front bathroom:
And a before shot of our back bathroom:
We basically flipped the configuration around installing a shower stall in the front bathroom and knocking/building a wall so that the bathtub is now in the back bathroom. My very clever husband planned it out on one of those handy-dandy architecture software programs; our bathroom contractor was very impressed with his plans. (Or so he said, anyway).
I had a BLAST putting the bathrooms back together again. These mosiac globes in the front bathroom are one of my favorite things we added …
And Kevin found this cool medicine cabinet that we hung over the toilet in the front bathroom …
These used to be in our front bathroom, now they’re in the back bathroom …
(Note what the pictures say – we both FIRMLY believe in these sayings).
And now, nearly six weeks later, I present our (almost)finished bathrooms:
The front bathroom …
(I had to have that shower curtain hemmed – it was about seven inches too long. In fact, the seamstress said that a lot of people have actually brought in shower curtains to hem).
The back bathroom …
I pretty much love them now. Why the people who built this house didn’t think to configure the bathrooms like this to begin with is beyond us, but whatever, they’re pretty awesome now. They were expensive, and though Kevin and I argue this point, I think we might have overpaid for what we got, but still, I don’t regret it one minute.
We have done so much to this house … it’s ALMOST where it want it to be.
And that’s a good thing since we plan on living here the rest of our lives.
(PS. I just went outside to see if the headboard and the door were still there – they are. Come on people, FREE STUFF!)
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