A little bit of background:
- In 2020 Dion and I were planning to go to the US for a holiday to celebrate a big anniversary. We all know what happened and there were no big travel holidays.
- 2021 didn’t look much better both from a comfort to travel point of view and so I had the bright idea – instead of those savings languishing (!) in our savings account, waiting for better days, why don’t we spend it on something we can enjoy daily, like a new bathroom?
- This was one of my more inspired ideas as that is exactly what we did. Another inspired idea was to have them do the main demo work while we were on (local) holidays and therefore not bothered by noise and dust (win-win). We did have a full week of people in the house once we returned.
What we would change:
Maybe next time (if there is a next time) we’ll stay away for two weeks because it was challenging for me to work and live in a house with a ton of people also working. On Teams: “hi client, please just ignore the drilling, there’s a bathroom renovation happening”.
I go back and forth on this, and we can still change it – the force of the shower is just pleasant, not super strong. That is a water-saving mechanism and is fine for most of the year but I will admit that in winter, I do sometimes think I need a bigger force shower with lots of hot water blazing down on me.
What we did change
We added more hooks and towel rails and moved the position of the rails within that first week. Compare the top picture to this one.
What we would not change:
- Everything structural – I love having a big shower and no bath
- I love our double basins
- I love that we kept our wall for toilet privacy
- I love our long wall of cupboards that hide our laundry baskets, cleaning materials and toiletries!
Here are some more pictures:
Have you ever had a renovation while you lived in the space?
Did it make you crazy or how did you handle it?
