As I type this, my bathroom doesn鈥檛 exist.
To be clearer, the actual room where my bathroom is located exists. There鈥檚 even a toilet in there, which I can use in the evening. But if we鈥檙e talking about the bath that goes in the bathroom, that鈥檚 not there. Nor is the sink. It鈥檒l all be there tomorrow, unless there鈥檚 a small disaster, but otherwise I don鈥檛 really have a bathroom at the moment.
This is slightly inconvenient, of course, but inconvenience is the cost of progress. Or, at least, the cost of not having things leak all over the house, which is what the current bathroom has an irritating tendency to do. So the decision was made to rip it all out and start fresh, with new and exciting bathroom fixtures that will build into a nice bathroom that鈥檚 much better than the one that came before it. I find myself getting quite excited.
The fun thing about renovations is that you get to see how well your house was built the last time. You get to see the corners cut, the bad (and good) decisions made, what happened the last time the house was torn apart. Some of the stuff we already knew, like how the vanity was way too big for the space so it was difficult to get to the toilet, or how nobody thought to put an exhaust fan in a bathroom. Some stuff we didn鈥檛, like the bizarre materials used to put in the shower. It鈥檚 an adventure in ripping everything out and putting it back together again.
Of course, this is an old house - it was built in 1911, and the bathroom 鈥渄esign鈥� is so weird that you can easily assume that indoor plumbing wasn鈥檛 a thought in anyone鈥檚 mind when it was made. After all, without curtains the neighbor would get a full view of the bathroom鈥檚 user. The age of the house naturally means that there are challenges that another house might not have. This also explains why the renovation was necessary - so much copper, so many leaks, so many things that need to be ripped out.
It also makes you appreciate just how difficult doing renovations is. This isn鈥檛 a cheap project - you wouldn鈥檛 think such a small room would be so expensive - but when you watch them doing what they鈥檙e doing, I totally get why it鈥檚 so expensive. I could probably do one or two minor repairs. I even replaced the toilet once. But all of the pieces that are 小蓝视频 moved around and replaced, all of the parts that have to be redone and rebuilt. And it鈥檚 our only bathroom. I might be able to rip things apart and put them together on a computer screen, but what these guys are doing, I could never actually accomplish. It鈥檚 so much work, most of it I can鈥檛 do. The room itself will be so different once it鈥檚 all said and done that I know, for certain, there鈥檚 no way my lack of handiness would have made any of it possible.
In some cases it鈥檚 also work that I would never want to do. I once moved a bed upstairs, it was awful. Do I want to move a bathtub up and down the same stairs? No. Absolutely no way. If I can get someone else to do it, that鈥檚 going to be way better for everyone. They get paid. I don鈥檛 have to do what was a hellish task. A win for everyone.
Renovations are like anything in life - changes have to be made, some minor, some dramatic, because if things stay exactly the same there鈥檚 no way you can live like that. I can鈥檛 live with having water drip downstairs when I鈥檓 taking a shower. I can鈥檛 live with just how humid the room gets after everyone in the house takes a shower. While it was fine when there was just one person in here, the more we have the worse it is, until the house simply doesn鈥檛 work anymore.
I鈥檓 pretty excited to see what it actually looks like when it鈥檚 all said and done, and while it鈥檚 in no way cheap, it鈥檚 still nice to see that this change is going to be one for the better.
