Wednesday, November 10, 2010

A post not for the faint of heart

In the next line of home improvements, we are now tackling the bathroom. Yes, we know that the kitchen isn't finished yet. Yes, we understand that this part of the home project may take the better part of the rest of the year and a good chunk of the beginning of next, but it had to be done.

Why?

Carpet. Yes, you read that correctly: carpet. The previous owners had decided (though no one really knows why) that carpet was a good idea in a bathroom. And not just any carpet. Shag. Tan shag. Around the toilet, too. It had to go.

What we found under the carpet was almost as bad as the carpet. The previous owners had just laid down the carpet over the old, cracked, warped, and rotting linoleum. Couple that with the smell coming from the carpet around the toilet and you understand our dilemma. Picture coming soon.

So now we've decided to wall up the little toilet room from the tub area, re-orient the toilet, wall it in from the master bedroom (along with the sink that's currently part of the master bedroom), add a shower, and create a 3/4 master bath. Then we'll move the sink in big bathroom, add a toilet there, and increase the value of the house because it will then have 2-1/2 complete, functional bathrooms, where now it only has 1-1/2. That extra 1/2 a bath is downstairs in the laundry room. Am I the only one who thinks that's a little weird? Oh well. It's amazing what they did when building track housing in the 1960s.

Go us!

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