Bathroom Remodel

Last week, we started a bathroom remodel.  What, you say?  Didn't we just recently finish a kitchen remodel?  Well, our bathroom is just as seriously outdated and non-user friendly as our old kitchen.  Our building is Edwardian, built sometime in 1911.  Don't get me wrong, I love the old San Francisco architecture and detailing in our condo, but whoever previously "modernized" the bathroom obviously did not care about safety.

We had a light switch of death, located conveniently near the shower head.  It was the switch for the only light in the bathroom, so no way to avoid it.  Seriously, who puts a light switch near the shower head?  And the tub area is not tiled.  We have a D-ring shower curtain holder, which doesn't seem that bad in theory until you are taking a shower and are trying to turn around and grab for shampoo and the stupid shower curtain blows in and sticks to your body.  Ewwww.  The bathtub clogged regularly.  We have kept Roto-Rooter and Draino in business for the last couple of years.  And true to Edwardian form, our toilet is in a separate water closet.  Quaint, yes, and also a little gross and inconvenient when you think about it. 

So with future baby on the way, we figured that it was time to re-do the bathroom. We are replacing all the fixtures, tub and toilet, joining the water closet and bathroom, and shifting the orientation of the tub.  I can't wait to finally be able to take baths!  And to give future baby a lovely bath without worrying about the light switch of death or flaking paint. We did not get a designer or anything, and because we are trying to keep costs down and won't be replacing the ancient windows, and also because the area is just awkwardly configured no matter what, the remodeled bathroom won't be one of those "oooo, ahhhhh" reveals like you see on HGTV, but anything has got to be better than fearing electrocution while taking a shower.