Sorry I’ve been MIA for a while. We have some exciting family news I’ll be ready to share with you in a few weeks, but until then please bear with me.
In the meantime, we have started renovating our second bathroom. YAY! Actually the demolition part of the renovation took place back in January, but then got put on hold while Eddie prepared to take his Professional Engineering exam, which he passed, ya-hooo! So our family of 4 with two potty training toddlers has been using one bathroom for five months. It hasn’t been as bad as I feared, but I’m still excited that the end is in sight.
Brace yourself, what I’m about to show you might be the ugliest thing you’ve ever seen in your life, but it was actually one of the main reasons we bought our house. You see, when we were house hunting most of the houses in our price range only had one bathroom, but this one has 1.5. That was a huge selling point for me. Although the half bath looked like this:
The 70’s called, they do not want their bathroom back. Yes, that is 40+ year old brown shag carpet you see. And fake laminate paneling. The yellow “stripes?” That would be plywood streaked with glue. My guess is that at one point in time there was some very groovy wallpaper attached, but not so anymore. Just lovely exposed glue.
Also, this space was not insulated, there was no electrical outlet, and spiders constantly were getting in because it’s sandwiched between our garage and the crawl space under our front porch, neither of which were properly sealed or insulated either.
I’m claiming the title for worst bathroom ever, unless one of you thinks you can beat me. If so, please share!
The new walls and floors are finished, but there is still A LOT of work to be done hanging trim, re-installing fixtures, etc. I can’t wait to reveal the after pics to you guys, hopefully really soon!
Wow… and I thought our ’80s half bath was bad. When we moved in, there was some psychedelic southwestern wallpaper on it. And IT covered up some ugly yellow and brown striped-flower-y wallpaper. Luckily, the tile, although dark green, isn’t horrendous, and the vanity was actually in good shape. So I stripped the wallpaper, and painted the room.