Before and after: The master bathroom
The other night, on Bang for Your Buck, the hosts evaluated a bathroom that looked a lot like ours. It’s a good thing we like ours so much, because evidently we Did It Wrong.
Whatever, HGTV. I think ours is beautiful, and not just because the original was such a dump.
Approach, gasp, run away?
Umpqua, Streamline, Chenowith. Pretty, pretty, pretty.
Outside the tub
Half a wall = more daylight
The tub and the toilet swapped places, which had repercussions for the ceiling of the downstairs bathroom, but we shall say no more about that.
Ick.
If one is willing to live with ick, does that make one icky?
Aaaah.
Because I love Heather Safferstone (our interior designer) so much, I feel the need to say that neither the clear shower liner nor the tissue paper taped over the window was her idea, and they are not permanent solutions. She is doing her best to class us up. Godspeed, young Heather.
One of the important considerations as we remodeled was being consistent with the original character of the house (shout out to the midcentury modern remodel on this site and the owners’ pursuit of an appropriate bathroom). In our house, the second floor bathroom has a milk glass knob on the bathroom side of the door and glass outside. With the help of Historic Houseparts, the master bathroom does, too:
The knob is from Historic Houseparts; the plate is from our old bathroom, which wasn't all bad. Chrome amid the rot!
Loved the bathroom re-do. No idea why the reference to, per HGTV , its being done wrong. Hardly. HGTV is less, in my opinion, about preservation than about decoration. This is a terrific bathroom with high function for such a really small space. I so empathize with the small victories that add up to ongoing enjoyment: milk glass knob, original chrome backplate, well done execution to effect more interior light. It is all great. Love, love, love the white and black. Thanks for posting.
The BfYB couple evidently spent too much on their bathtub (we probably didn’t, although we did go with cast iron), had a towel warmer/radiator (guilty), and had a toilet across from a sink (guilty again).
Their logic on the layout was that it’s crowded if someone’s on the toilet and someone else is using the sink. My college had coed bathrooms, and I got my fill of flossing while some guy used the urinal. My days of joint bathroom use are over.