Bathroom Makeover Plans

I have been thinking.  Maybe I ought to bring you back into our house a little more.  You’ve seen our construction zone (ie kitchen/living room) that we can’t wait to update you on super soon.  But there’s just a LITTLE more to our house that you haven’t seen.  Starting with–oh isn’t this exciting–the bathroom.

There wasn’t really much to it.    
 

Toilet, sink, the last tenants’ personal stuff on the left.

 

Tenants’ washing machine and stuff, shower, door! on the right.

 

And overhead, an awful picture of the even more awful light.

 

What’s a girl to do?

I could see white tile bathrooms being sort of spa-like, except this one is so small.  Sit on the toilet, and you bang your knees into the washing machine.  That doesn’t exactly spell luxury to me.  Neither does the shower/door collision.  Unlike the living room, we can’t rescue this room with a coat of paint because the white tiles go almost all the way to the ceiling (a common feature of German bathrooms).  Obviously, it’s going to come down to decor.

Couple of things we could think about:

  • building custom shelves, cabinets, and a vanity to maximize the space and make it blend with the rest of the house a little
  • painting the ceiling (still not comfortable with this plan)
  • finding a compact washing machine
  • installing a more appropriate overhead light
  • adding a vanity light (electric already there)
  • learning how to live without a dryer, especially in the winter
  • finding a tiny mirror to carry us through construction

    • Enough about my place.

    Yikes!  That’s a lot of “I”.  What about YOU?  Have you ever had a room in your house that just Didn’t Make Sense?  And how did you manage to fall in love with it?  You know, as much as anyone could love a place like the bathroom.