Birthdays & Bathrooms

For starters, we have to acknowledge a couple of birthdays. Margo would have been 99 today. I can only imagine what she would say, seeing the house in the state it’s in now. But while she may have found it shocking, I think she would have seen past the concrete floor and the studs to imagine how nice it would look when it’s done.

And to her birthday buddy, Stephanie: tide to you :) Don’t worry, we’ll have one for you tonight….

We made a final decision on the guest bath. The contractor called the other morning to say the plumber wanted to start working on the house…..in two hours. The goal is to get all the new drain lines put in (all the cast iron is going) so they could pour concrete for the bathroom and the new foundations at the same time. This should save us $. We had narrowed down guest bathroom designs to three possibilities, so there wasn’t too much waffling to do.

After meeting with the GC and the plumber, we made the somewhat controversial decision to go tub-less. We never take baths. I couldn't tell you the last time I sat in a bathtub, probably because we have a hot tub. People were pretty mixed in their opinions as to whether we should go this route or not, but our GC summed it up by saying "look, you aren't planning on selling the house, so just do what you want and what you will find useful." So that's what we did. We'll have a nice tiled shower in our bathroom, not huge (40" x 48") and a neo-angle corner shower, tiled as well, in the guest bath. It fits the best and makes the guest bath a bit more spacious, while also allowing for some storage.

So if you ever used the famous gray bathtub at our house, sorry, those days are over. And Seagirl – we’ll get you a stool so you can shave your legs using the outdoor shower. While having a cocktail. Will that make up for a loss of the tub?