Home Throne!

After

Five years ago Megan and I bought our first house.  The finding and fixing up of our home is a long story indeed.  But one of the most important rooms in the house was of major concern, the bathroom.   In each home we searched I inspected the bathroom.  Making sure to test the flush of each toilet to ensure the plumbing was good.  In our home of choice I could tell the plumbing was good, but the toilet was bad; basically the water moved around but took time to go down... bad hydrolics.  So, we bought our house and spent the day of our closing ripping out the floors and gutting the crawl space.  Guess who got the shitty job?  The crawl space was nasty, but Megan's mom was really embarrassed when the toilet malfunctioned on her.  From the beginning, despite protests, I knew toilet needed to to be replaced, but it was not considered a priority until it was obviously a problem; when I first flushed it the water just kind of moved around but did not seem to have a purpose.  So, along with removing and replacing the duct work, gutting and redoing the crawl space, removing the floors, sealing the subfloors, and putting down new flooring, it became necessary to redo the bathroom as well.  All of this along with packing and moving in at just the right time (2 weeks) before our lease expired (so an extra thank you to those who helped us move in the nick of time!).  We obviously knew the bathroom needed to be redone, since we had already purchased a new sink and vanity before we closed on our house; $29 was a steal!  After consulting a co-worker I was dead set on purchasing the best toilet money can buy, a kohler, and am still happy we did so!  The vanity took a little bit of work because they tiled around the old vanity and ours was not the same size.  So when you see our bathroom you can observe my creative skill in making the new vanity fit into a larger space; its awesome!  I also installed a new light-set and mirror cabinet; the old mirror had some crazy persons writing, which advised we looked for her buried behind the house somewhere; creepy!  All of the electrical switches and outlets needed to be replaced and Megan thouroughly cleaned the fan/heater for me.  The toilet was quite the learning experience in the replacement process, but replacing the door was probably the most difficult process of all believe it or not.  Then just a few weeks after we moved in Megan found the shower curtain online, which happened to complete our beach theme perfectly!!  I am now very glad we spent the time and effort to make our bathroom a comfortable place, especially since our kitchen plans are permanently put on hold until we win the lottery or something; any ideas, wink, wink:

Before!