Master Bathroom Chronicles: Part 1 - The List

We really needed Bath Crashers.  I'm pretty sure the "crashers" don't come around these parts, so we had to tackle the master bath on our own.  This is the mini-makeover on the cheap before we demo the whole thing and start from the ground up, with professionals doing the bulk of the work.  But we need to save our pennies so it gets done the right way the first time - ok the first and 1/2 time - I'm only counting this work we did as 1/2 of a makeover since it was really half-assed.

What we started with.  My god.  There are no words.

Such a sad, lonely little toilet... 

Vanity #1

The area with small tiles is the shower.  There are towel
bars on the doors too,  only one on the outside of the shower.

And you can see the blue tub. 

Vanity #2.  Fancy huh? 

There are so many positives to the space that it feels kind of selfish to point out the negatives, but that has never stopped me before, so here goes a free association center-justified list...

carpet, in a bathroom.  no.

30 year old carpet to boot.

30 years of bathroom stuff happening on the carpet, 

29.5 of the years not our bathroom stuff

wallpaper, of course 

fussy, fussy, fussy cabinet hardware and...

...towel (singular) bar.  Yup - only one place to hang a towel, unless you count the

wall by vanity #1, but that was really only big enough to hold a hand towel, 

not a bath towel.  Plus, we need space for 2 bath towels.

the saddest, loneliest, low to the ground, 20 gallon flush toilet.

Probably not 20 gallons, but at least 5 per flush, that tank is HUGE.

Yellow, 4" tile everywhere.  Including the shower/tub "room" and vanity countertops

tiled vanity countertops

but, for some reason, a blue whirlpool tub...

...which takes at least 20 gallons of water to reach the bottom of the jets so it functions as a whirlpool tub, plus it's blue.  And the drain doesn't stay closed unless you prop it that way with a paper clip.

and the jets are a little too powerful for relaxation.

and it's a flimsy fiberglass that I think may crack someday

As previously mentioned, the shower and tub are in their own little "room".  

Not a tub/shower combo where you stand in the tub to take a shower.  

They are separate, but behind shower doors in their own space.

  Yup, so every time we take a shower, water splashes into the tub.  

So I spend time cleaning an ugly blue tub that never gets used.

can you tell I hate my bathtub?

ugly trim on the painted cabinets

vanity makeup area that is too small to sit underneath on the bench provided, 

so you bang your knees when you move.  Unless you get a new bench, which we're not.

Also, it's too far away from the ginormous mirrors to get a good look at what you're doing.

ginormous mirrors.

inadequate bath fan which allows steam to rise into the skylight area and create mildew.

Enough of the Debbie Downer junk, gee whiz.  What we do have is a large sized master bath.  When we do it up right, it will be spectacular.  I promise.  

But for now we just had to get rid of some stuff for our own sanity and, I'm afraid, our health.

the carpet (health)

wallpaper (sanity)

The wallpaper came down with the Master Bedroom paper, it was a chore, but it was the last of the wallpaper in the house, so the end was in sight.  That leads us to...

...Part 2 - The Floor.