This is the only room in the house that has had nothing done to it (other than painting) since we built the house. Rick is tired of it and it has to go. I think we're going to start it in the next couple months or so.....some of it. New window and sun tunnel for now. Rest to follow after the holidays.
This is a small bathroom with your standard built-in fiberglass tub/shower unit, toilet, and vanity. A huge double closet that takes up an inordinate amount of room in the room. The room will be gutted; everything will be gone and we're starting over. Rick has talked to the guy who designed our kitchen and he's coming down next week to start taking measurements for a first bathroom mock-up.
Once Rick agrees to the design, he will order the cabinets.....he'll get them from work as he can save a ton of money right there with his discount.
We're not having a bathtub; we just have a walk-in shower unit. It will be tiled with a rainshower (we have a rainshower now and we really like it), as well as a regular shower, and two lights in the ceiling. I would rather not have a shower door period because it's just something else for me to clean, but the room is too small to have a shower w/o a door. Rick and the designer have promised me that it will look "nice".....that scares me a little.
Nice being relative, of course.
Instead of a single vanity (that makes us crazy every time we have to get ready for work or something at the same time), we're going with a double.
Rick wants a heated floor. He seems to think that will suffice to heat the entire bathroom because heat rises. I get that. But on mornings when it's 10 degrees outside, I don't think that's going to work out so well. We need to talk to our electrician about that; I'm willing to go with what the electrician says.
Storage is always at a premium in this house. Always. And it does kind of bother me that we're giving up the double closet. That closet stores everything from linens for the bed to towels and washcloths, cat litter, dirty clothes, the iron, you name it, it's in there.
Right now there's a litter box in the bathroom....it's just there. And it does get used, but not often. We may put an opening the bottom of one of the cabinets and just place a large tub inside for the cats' litter box. That way, it's completely out of the way, yet with a door, I can easily get it out to clean and scoop. I did suggest not having a litter box in the bathroom at all, but well, five cats. There's a blasted litter box in every room of our house!
We're not sure yet about color. I would love to have dove-grey cabinets and Rick likes that idea. He wants a dark granite countertop. That's as far as we've gotten.
I'm more than a little worried about gutting the room. I'm not a cat and litter boxes won't work here!
I like my showers (my sister already told me her shower is my shower). And I know Dear Richard. I love the man, I really love the man, but I know that he's slow as molasses in January; he works on Rick-time, which is completely different from how the rest of the world works. I remember how long it took for the kitchen and we managed. It would be more difficult to go without a toilet, quite honestly.
So after this long, long tale, I guess I want to know.....what would you want in a new bathroom? What is something that you would really need in a bathroom? Light. More than one receptacle. Light. Heat would be nice or I'm going to be freezing more than nubbins off come winter! Organization. Storage space. Light. (I really do have a thing about light.)
What am I missing?
This is a small bathroom with your standard built-in fiberglass tub/shower unit, toilet, and vanity. A huge double closet that takes up an inordinate amount of room in the room. The room will be gutted; everything will be gone and we're starting over. Rick has talked to the guy who designed our kitchen and he's coming down next week to start taking measurements for a first bathroom mock-up.
Once Rick agrees to the design, he will order the cabinets.....he'll get them from work as he can save a ton of money right there with his discount.
We're not having a bathtub; we just have a walk-in shower unit. It will be tiled with a rainshower (we have a rainshower now and we really like it), as well as a regular shower, and two lights in the ceiling. I would rather not have a shower door period because it's just something else for me to clean, but the room is too small to have a shower w/o a door. Rick and the designer have promised me that it will look "nice".....that scares me a little.
Nice being relative, of course.Instead of a single vanity (that makes us crazy every time we have to get ready for work or something at the same time), we're going with a double.
Rick wants a heated floor. He seems to think that will suffice to heat the entire bathroom because heat rises. I get that. But on mornings when it's 10 degrees outside, I don't think that's going to work out so well. We need to talk to our electrician about that; I'm willing to go with what the electrician says.
Storage is always at a premium in this house. Always. And it does kind of bother me that we're giving up the double closet. That closet stores everything from linens for the bed to towels and washcloths, cat litter, dirty clothes, the iron, you name it, it's in there.
Right now there's a litter box in the bathroom....it's just there. And it does get used, but not often. We may put an opening the bottom of one of the cabinets and just place a large tub inside for the cats' litter box. That way, it's completely out of the way, yet with a door, I can easily get it out to clean and scoop. I did suggest not having a litter box in the bathroom at all, but well, five cats. There's a blasted litter box in every room of our house!
We're not sure yet about color. I would love to have dove-grey cabinets and Rick likes that idea. He wants a dark granite countertop. That's as far as we've gotten.
I'm more than a little worried about gutting the room. I'm not a cat and litter boxes won't work here!
I like my showers (my sister already told me her shower is my shower). And I know Dear Richard. I love the man, I really love the man, but I know that he's slow as molasses in January; he works on Rick-time, which is completely different from how the rest of the world works. I remember how long it took for the kitchen and we managed. It would be more difficult to go without a toilet, quite honestly.So after this long, long tale, I guess I want to know.....what would you want in a new bathroom? What is something that you would really need in a bathroom? Light. More than one receptacle. Light. Heat would be nice or I'm going to be freezing more than nubbins off come winter! Organization. Storage space. Light. (I really do have a thing about light.)
What am I missing?
very exciting!
