Joining the 21st Century

This old house was built in 1928 and at 90, some parts are not working the way they used to - believe me I can totally relate.

In July Steve said it was time to bite the bullet and bring our early 1900's bathroom into the 21st century.

The end result made the 6 weeks of chaos and dust ( you can read about it here ) worthwhile.

In 6 years of blogging, I only did one post about the bathroom which should tell you how bad it looked.

The only things we reused are the pedestal sink and this shower curtain - I just haven't found another one that I like yet.

We were thrilled to remove this cabinet - we needed the storage, but in a small 5'x7' bathroom, that cabinet took up prime real estate.

We like the cabinet and hated to toss it so I found feet on Amazon and now it's a mini cabinet in my She Shed.

On Fixer Upper, Chip makes Demo Day look so easy, but this is our bathroom at the end of Demo Day #5.

Here is the bathroom a month in with a couple of weeks left - there are always glitches like the plumber's wife going into labor on the day he was scheduled at our house and our two getaways in September.

 We love how our builder took a limited amount of space and created a bathroom with a spacious feel.

The woodworker created custom cabinets 

 that are deep enough to store extra toilet paper

and even hide our electric tooth brushes.

It's funny how small details please me like this custom medicine cabinet instead of a stock pop-in.

One way we created a more spacious feel was to remove the tub - Steve and I are old (and getting older) and stepping into a tub is something we no longer want to do - without a tub, the eye travels all the way to the wall.

We wanted only the towel rack and a sign on this wall.

 I found the sign painted on glass and the lettering provided just the amount of color I was looking for.

Originally I tied the black and white ribbon around the towels just for the photos, but I kept it when my neighbor brought me over the cutest little Halloween hand towels.

The original tile was white with black hexagons (far fewer black tiles) - I chose black grout because all the bathrooms that jumped out at me on Pinterest had white subway tile with black grout.

We found the lights at Lamp Plus on our first outing to find all the items we needed to select for the remodel.

I wish I had a before pic of the old bathroom to show the change 

because it still amazes us that this is the same room.