sweet fancy Moses*
We are remodeling our bathroom.
We have been remodeling our bathroom for just over a year.
If we don't make some decisions soon and finish the demo and move forward - it may never be started, um, DONE.
I've been wanting to add a bathtub to the room - and there is the space for it, but MY GOD the choices...
you look at tubs for three, four, seven thousand dollars and your head is swimming. And then you get down to basics and research simple five foot bathtubs for eight hundred dollars and you find yourself thinking HELL NO I don't want any old eight hundred dollar bathtub! There must be SOMETHING special about a five thousand dollar hole in the floor that you fill with water to soak in your own dirt in, right?
Do I want 'soft grip handles?'
Why do the words 'anti skid bottom' scare me so?
Where do I need my flange? My drain?
Don't you think installing a five foot tub with 50 jets and colored lights will end up being a mistake?
I just can't see myself selling this house in 5 or ten years and saying to prospective buyers: just wait until you see the tub in the master bath.
This is a humble little home, I think we should show some restraint in the bathroom.
As it were.
And the room itself...gah.
It has a high vaulted ceiling, but it is a small room.
I've been online looking at sites for inspiration and I am scared by what I've seen.
Who in their right mind has a room like this?
Sign me up for the black toilet and tub - really, I WANT to be scrubbing soap scum for the REST OF MY LIFE.
Plus, I LOVE the idea of the WHOLE ROOM as my shower.
What a time saver.
Imagine if you were at my house for a visit...imagine if you went upstairs and needed to use my bathroom and you opened the door and saw this?
Could you keep a straight face with those faucets peeing like that?
I need A LOT of floor space in my bathroom - so K and I can have matching LEATHER STOOLS. You know, to sit our WET NAKED BUTTS on after a shower.
This is what my living room would look like -
IF WE PUT A TOILET IN IT.
I actually, sort of, like this...
but there is no way we are purchasing a SIX THOUSAND DOLLAR bathtub.
I could have all the money in the world and not feel comfortable buying a six thousand dollar bathtub. (Can you hear K? he's saying: YOU DON'T AND YOU WON'T.)
This is really very US.
Even the ladder.
K wants to do beadboard - I have rarely seen it done well, and we don't have unbroken wall space.
I like all the white, and the dark floor - (note to me, slate floor and white tiles?)
Not bad...looks like a nice deep tub - do I want a sprayer?
K does not like subway tile. He spends enough time in the subway.
All that space and a phone booth for a shower? Tsss.
Mind if I use the beeday whilst you shave at your perfectly illuminated sink?
Look!
It's the Cirque Du Soleil bathroom.
The toilet is floating.
This
would look nice at my contemporary beach house. WHICH I DON'T OWN.
I like the idea of this minimalist look, but we would have shampoo bottles and hair brushes and baskets of crappe all over the place.
The whole point of this little online foray was to research tubs.
And so I think I'll either go with:
The Marie Antoinette
which appeals to that Princess-y Girl-y Pink-y thing that really never surfaces in my day to day life.
OR
This giant hulking $16,000 hand carved block of STONE tub
which epitomizes the rough, sexy, natural side of me showing through.
In my bathroom.
*I've been working hard to incorporate this phrase into my daily life.
We have been remodeling our bathroom for just over a year.
If we don't make some decisions soon and finish the demo and move forward - it may never be started, um, DONE.
I've been wanting to add a bathtub to the room - and there is the space for it, but MY GOD the choices...
you look at tubs for three, four, seven thousand dollars and your head is swimming. And then you get down to basics and research simple five foot bathtubs for eight hundred dollars and you find yourself thinking HELL NO I don't want any old eight hundred dollar bathtub! There must be SOMETHING special about a five thousand dollar hole in the floor that you fill with water to soak in your own dirt in, right?
Do I want 'soft grip handles?'
Why do the words 'anti skid bottom' scare me so?
Where do I need my flange? My drain?
Don't you think installing a five foot tub with 50 jets and colored lights will end up being a mistake?
I just can't see myself selling this house in 5 or ten years and saying to prospective buyers: just wait until you see the tub in the master bath.
This is a humble little home, I think we should show some restraint in the bathroom.
As it were.
And the room itself...gah.
It has a high vaulted ceiling, but it is a small room.
I've been online looking at sites for inspiration and I am scared by what I've seen.
Who in their right mind has a room like this?
Sign me up for the black toilet and tub - really, I WANT to be scrubbing soap scum for the REST OF MY LIFE.
Plus, I LOVE the idea of the WHOLE ROOM as my shower.
What a time saver.
Imagine if you were at my house for a visit...imagine if you went upstairs and needed to use my bathroom and you opened the door and saw this?
Could you keep a straight face with those faucets peeing like that?
I need A LOT of floor space in my bathroom - so K and I can have matching LEATHER STOOLS. You know, to sit our WET NAKED BUTTS on after a shower.
This is what my living room would look like -
IF WE PUT A TOILET IN IT.
I actually, sort of, like this...
but there is no way we are purchasing a SIX THOUSAND DOLLAR bathtub.
I could have all the money in the world and not feel comfortable buying a six thousand dollar bathtub. (Can you hear K? he's saying: YOU DON'T AND YOU WON'T.)
This is really very US.
Even the ladder.
K wants to do beadboard - I have rarely seen it done well, and we don't have unbroken wall space.
I like all the white, and the dark floor - (note to me, slate floor and white tiles?)
Not bad...looks like a nice deep tub - do I want a sprayer?
K does not like subway tile. He spends enough time in the subway.
All that space and a phone booth for a shower? Tsss.
Mind if I use the beeday whilst you shave at your perfectly illuminated sink?
Look!
It's the Cirque Du Soleil bathroom.
The toilet is floating.
This
would look nice at my contemporary beach house. WHICH I DON'T OWN.
I like the idea of this minimalist look, but we would have shampoo bottles and hair brushes and baskets of crappe all over the place.
The whole point of this little online foray was to research tubs.
And so I think I'll either go with:
The Marie Antoinette
which appeals to that Princess-y Girl-y Pink-y thing that really never surfaces in my day to day life.
OR
This giant hulking $16,000 hand carved block of STONE tub
which epitomizes the rough, sexy, natural side of me showing through.
In my bathroom.
*I've been working hard to incorporate this phrase into my daily life.
Comments
We remodeled our bathroom this summer and the choices and decisions were endless.
It's nice to see you having fun with this. I lost my sense of humor some time during week three and I'm still looking for it.
We were thinking bead board, too with a sink set into an antique dresser or dressing table.
Pls not the granite hunk. it looks like a kettle. Mmmmmm, Blackbird soup.
That freestanding tube in the iron cage is really cool.
(ps. I like the ladder one best)
And beadboard too!
I hate the tubs with the huge surrounds that you have to CLIMB over when all you want to do is relax. I housesat at a house with a tub like that. I like the Marie Antoinette.
I like my bathroom. When I feel mopey about the rest of the house, I go there and stare.
P.S. Happy birthday to your boy, too.
Thank you.
The third from the top: is the idea that you lounge in the armchair having a chat with the person sitting on the loo?