I'm having my bathroom remodeled after all these years - 20 years to be exact. In the 20 years that I'm in this house, we have remodeled/updated the house one section at a time. It's now the bathroom's turn - HURRAY!!The bathroom has been as is ever since the house was built in the 70's. Oh, correction: we had to install the shower and tiled the bathtub area when we first moved in. Everything else was there since the beginning. All these years, it just quietly serves its purpose. Functional, utilitarian and nothing to brag about.
But of course all things deteriorate over time. Tiles started falling off, paint peeling off, toilet wobbly, exhaust fan struggling. I think its day has finally come.
OK, bathroom, you're next. First of all though, we need dough! From having enough dough, deciding on the new look and feel, picking the materials, searching for discounts to chasing down the contractor, it took me one and a half year!!
At last, we started work on March 19th. Since I'm finally doing it, I decide to go all out. Everything was torn down and the toilet relocated. I even put in a sun tunnel.Like how bones are jointed at the right places, everything has to click for things to fall into place. The project was moving right along until this week. We have to stop work now because the darn vanity cabinet is not here. It had to be reshipped, the guy said. "There was an accident." What accident? Did you give my order to someone else? Ugh!
So this is the jointing bone effect: the baseboard can't be installed because the contractor needs to know the exact location of the vanity leg in order to cut the baseboard. The toilet can't be installed because the baseboard is not in. The medicine cabinet and the vanity light can't be installed because we need to know the exact center from the cabinet. Towel bars cannot be installed until all these are in place. Oh, can't forget the shower door too, which will go in last.
So close... so close... just hang in there, Suts. It will eventually be bath time. *sigh*
Update: the bathroom was finally done on 4/21/13 and the shower door installed on 5/20/13.