Bathroom Day

Hello!!
How is everyones weekends going?
Its still filthy weather here. The rain has been insane – it gets really really loud at times. The wind is also howling – a lot!
I did go out for a short time to feed the chooks some treats and load up on firewood, but wow – icy cold and not nice!
Best plan of attack these days is to get through the house jobs.

I took down the shower curtains a couple of days back and threw them through the washing machine with some bicarb soda to spruce them up a bit.
We have a really awkward small bathroom – quite the over-achiever though when you think of all our guests!
The floor is raised and the roof is lowered. Jeff doesn’t fit so well into the shower while standing in the tub!
Its a silly setup – a lovely bath of course, but those claw baths need to sit in the middle of a big fancy bathroom, not jammed in the corner, where the shower water spills out over the sides to the floor.
I have been taping cut-down shower curtains to the top end (see where the paint is missing above) and to the mirrors so the water goes down the drain and not all over the floor

Oh those mirrors!! Impossible to keep clean, most are marked or chipped and look generally manky.
A major renovation job to the whole back end of the house would be marvellous! Bigger bathroom, practical fittings etc.
A smaller option would be to take out the claw bath (gasp I know) and have a shower wall but no door – just a walk in affair with the floor angled to the drain.
Remove the silly mirror wall and replace the vanity.

The old hot water system had a case built around it. No options of being able to open it. So when it died we had to rip the case from around the wall. And of course never built a new one.
It has remained ugly.
We picked up a screen in the garden section of the local Bunnings then did a kind of Dodgy Brothers Job to set it in place.

I screwed in a couple of brackets then screwed in some timber along the top so I could tie the screen to a frame to keep in in place.

I can live with that!

Three coats of paint later – we used the outside house paint instead of going out to spend more money. This is just a tidy up not a makeover. We also figured if the paint was good for the outside elements it could survive our bathroom!

Instead of my usual ‘duct-tape-the-crap-out-of-everything’ approach, I got some stretchy cord and some hooks. Decided to cover the mirror entirely.

Main curtains back up and we are about done!

There is still a small matter of a lot of unused bathroom products that need to be sorted and tossed, but that can wait a day or so!

Pretty nice to get a job done that has been bugging me for an eon!

Now I have to think of a way to amuse myself tomorrow – doubt this weather is going to clear up yet!

Cheers!