The ick that is our bathroom
Do you ever stand in a place in your house and wonder “what the heck was the designer thinking?”
That might even be a stretch because I have a feeling that no designer was involved in the arrangement/design of our bathroom. Â Definitely a builder.
For one we have no bathroom shelves. Â None. Â We’ve got a couple drawers, but they are either way too narrow to hold more than toothpaste, or not deep enough to hold anything like face lotion. Â It’s really annoying.
We don’t even have a medicine cabinet. Â Which is why you won’t be seeing a picture…because our counter doubles as a medicine cabinet.
Then, next to our vanity (which is wide enough for two sinks, but there is only one), there is a random space. Â Nothing there, just a gap about 10 inches wide between the vanity and the bathtub (it holds our trashcan).
But, the real kicker is next to the bathtub, there is a tiled and encased box. Â Just an empty tall box. Â No reason, no design element to it. No function (it’s not a jacuzzi tub where you need to be able to access the motor). Â Just a tall-mauve-tiled ugly box.
And, this is why I wonder, who the heck designed our bathroom.
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I really need to see a picture of that box! 🙂
Maybe I’ll work on that for you…it’s pretty nasty!
We wonder who designed our house. The bathroom is so small the counter barely has room for soap. There are 2 medicine cabinets (thanks to the contractor who realized we had space issues), but they open up into each other and you can’t get either one all the way open. And because the space is so small they aren’t very big and we can’t fit much in there. There is no room for a bath mat on the floor. I can’t dry off without knocking the toilet paper off the holder. There is no toilet paper holder on the wall. The under the sink cabinet is so small there isn’t any room for drawers, and the sink takes up most of the space. We have two baskets that hold all our stuff, but that’s barely enough room.
When I was pregnant I wasn’t able to get into the shower without scraping on the shower door. And when I’d turn around I’d knock the towel rack off the wall.
If we owned the house and had the money, I would somehow increase the size of the bedroom and bathroom and have a walk-in closet with a true master suite. Our bedroom is 10×10, has only one wall that is usable (one has a closet, one has a window, the other is short because it’s by the door and opposite the other room). In our room we have 3 dressers, a queen size bed, a crib, and a night stand (only one, because there isn’t room for the second one). There’s barely room for our hamper. We have a grand total of about 18 square feet of floor space to get dressed and such. And that’s usually taken up by baby toys that don’t get put away the night before.
The closets in the other 2 bedrooms are bigger than ours.
The big living room is an addition on the house. it’s about 20×30. It fits a lot of stuff. But it has a vaulted ceiling with no attic space and therefore no ceiling insulation. It gets HOT in the summer and COLD in the winter. Rarely is it a comfortable temperature. There is only one heater vent into the room, and it’s on the far corner on the ceiling. Again, because there’s no attic space. The late landlord didn’t believe in hanging things from the ceiling, so there’s no ceiling fan … which would work wonders in circulating air and regulating the temperature. But I don’t know how they’d even be wired because, again, there’s no attic space to string the wiring.
And this addition of which I speak, it’s attached to the kitchen/dining room. There is a window from the kitchen looking into it. Kinda cute. But that window used to be to the outside. And the sliding glass door that used to be there is now a big doorway. There is no outside window into the kitchen. In the summer, when it gets hot, the hot air from the atticless living room gets drawn into the kitchen and combines with the heat from the oven/dishwasher/stove and the kitchen gets to be about 100*. And there is no circulation. It’s nearly impossible to do anything in the kitchen. I made a cake and couldn’t properly ice the cake because the icing was melting. It oozed down to the bottom of the cake plate. It was gross.
And said kitchen has corner cupboards that open into each other, so you can’t open it all the way. And one is about 2 ft. wider than the door, so you can’t use that space or can’t see/reach back there. That same cabinet door opens into the stove vent hood. The stove, which is gas and does not have an oven attached to it, has a cupboard below. The gas line from the stove is rather intrusive into said cupboard and every time I remove a pot I fear I’m going to grab the gas line and create massive problems.
I could continue, but I think I’ve bored you enough.
The house used to be a lot worse. In the 3 years we’ve lived here our new landlord (the late landlord’s daughter) has
*bought a new fridge, dishwasher, and w/d
*replaced the windows
*put in hardwood floor
*bought a new roof
*redid both bathrooms
*rebuilt the deck
*paid for roto rooter countless times
*reimbursed us for several small repairs we had to do when her dad was MIA in the hospital
*repaired new refrigerator
*now getting ready to repair new dishwasher
She’s talked about giving us central air and hiring a landscaper to dig a drainage ditch in the back yard, but she’s done so much already, we aren’t going to ask.
The first house we lived in had a pedestal sink right next to the toilet, and a step away from the tub and shower.
Seriously! But, it was built in the 40s!
Your landlord has been awesome for you, but it never hurts to ask for more:)