Before & After: The Bathroom

  

    

Our pre-renovation bathroom was not only moderately unusable, but also poorly designed. Though small (4.5' x 6.5'-ish), size wasn't the problem.

The tub took up the entire back wall; the shower was electric; the floor was an interesting sparkly blue linoleum with the texture of soft-grit sandpaper; and the teeny tiny corner sink wasn't even in the bathroom—it was in the utility room.

Our number one goal was to get the sink, tub, and toilet in the same room. The key was getting a smaller tub and rotating it so that it fit in under the window. Next, we replaced our boiler so that we could do away with the electric shower, and replaced the radiator with a ladder-style towel warmer to save space while drying our towels properly. Finally, we opted for easy-to-clean tile in traditional black & white (in-keeping with the age of our house), and added a huge mirror for form and function.

Our bathroom has gone from icky, difficult and ugly, to clean, usable and pretty.

And I absolutely love how it turned out.

PS: In case you're wondering about storage, we installed a three shelf chrome corner unit in the shower, and a three drawer kitchen cabinet unit just outside the bathroom, next to the washer (where the sink used to be), with the same counter top as we put in the kitchen over top (photos in an upcoming post).

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