i had daydreams about how i could make this blog so cool, setting it up room by room to show before, progress and after pictures. but reality is, i have to keep focused on the actual project itself, and let the documentation of it come as a by-product.
for the moment, i have most of our ongoing house project photos posted here.
by far the most urgent thing to tackle first will be "the bathroom situation" this may be far away the biggest part of the renovation we do to this house.
when we moved in, the half-bath upstairs (consisting only of toilet and sink) had a 50 cm wide door directly from the bedroom, not wide enough for my husband to pass through without turning sideways, and adding insult to injury there was NO DOOR on it. um.. "hello kids, can you please leave mama alone for a few minutes? ah, thankyou, buh bye."
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inside the dubious upstairs half-bath... not shown are the grinding toilet
just to the right of the non-door, and lowered ceiling |
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| the 50cm wide non-door to the upstairs half-bath. to the right, in the hallway is the other bedroom door that forces you to walk through a closet to enter the tiniest bedroom in the house. |
not to mention the fact that in order to avoid doing REAL plumbing, the previous owner elected instead to install what's called a "grinding toilet".. meaning the sh*t really DOES hit the fan(!) with every flush, and makes 2 consecutive horrific grinding sounds that resonate throughout the neighborhood.
ripping out this "water closet" to opent he bathroom up to its proper entry on the hallway will be A PLEASURE!
stay tuned!
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