HH and I are officially suburban bound! After many, MANY months of plotting, planning and praying we finally closed on the house last week and submitted the plans for our reno to contractors for bidding. We were super fortunate to be able to purchase the house from my mother (more on that here) but I'm convinced there's nothing easy about buying an old home. Case in point:
Um yea. So at some point this summer the main waste line cracked. That right there is the devastation left behind in just one of our bathrooms after my dear mother generously had the old cast iron waste line removed and replaced from top to bottom. Thankfully we already planned to update the plumbing and electrical as part of our larger renovation. We didn't however plan to do any work at all to this particular bathroom. Obviously the giant holes in the wall and the ones in the floor that now let us see directly from the third floor to our front door effectively bumped this baby right to the top of our to do list. Here's the plan:
Since this bathroom wasn't (and really still isn't) in our budget, we're trying to work with as much of the existing stuff as we can. The claw foot tub and cast iron sink (which I love) will stay. The floors and the walls are getting an update with a blueish grey ceramic penny tile and white bead board. Luckily I'd already done some web window shopping for this bathroom after our honeymoon, and although HH nixed the Santorini blue tub with little gold feet that I day-dreamed about, I'm sticking with the same light, crisp and clean vibe.
The tub and the sink will have to be reglazed at some point and we'll also eventually update the light fixture and plumbing fixtures with modern replicas of the old ones that we have. For now though I'm thinking new floors, new walls, and a fresh coat of paint will be game changing. At least I hope so.
And who knows, maybe I'll get those little gold feet after all.. :)
Um yea. So at some point this summer the main waste line cracked. That right there is the devastation left behind in just one of our bathrooms after my dear mother generously had the old cast iron waste line removed and replaced from top to bottom. Thankfully we already planned to update the plumbing and electrical as part of our larger renovation. We didn't however plan to do any work at all to this particular bathroom. Obviously the giant holes in the wall and the ones in the floor that now let us see directly from the third floor to our front door effectively bumped this baby right to the top of our to do list. Here's the plan:
Since this bathroom wasn't (and really still isn't) in our budget, we're trying to work with as much of the existing stuff as we can. The claw foot tub and cast iron sink (which I love) will stay. The floors and the walls are getting an update with a blueish grey ceramic penny tile and white bead board. Luckily I'd already done some web window shopping for this bathroom after our honeymoon, and although HH nixed the Santorini blue tub with little gold feet that I day-dreamed about, I'm sticking with the same light, crisp and clean vibe.
The tub and the sink will have to be reglazed at some point and we'll also eventually update the light fixture and plumbing fixtures with modern replicas of the old ones that we have. For now though I'm thinking new floors, new walls, and a fresh coat of paint will be game changing. At least I hope so.
And who knows, maybe I'll get those little gold feet after all.. :)
