Bathroom Reno - DONE!

A couple of weeks ago we started our bathroom renovation. The last little bits are finally in place - yes we are DONE!  I'm delighted. Absolutely delighted. Have a look the before and after:

Before (standing in the closet door, facing the window) - what you see is an old dinosaur jacuzzi - which has been much more trouble than it was worth, directly under the window. Makes it REALLY hard to clean that window - plus takes up a huge amount of space. Note the tiny little sink/vanity - with virtually NO storage space. Just to the left, and out of the picture, is the grotty old glass shower enclosure - very small enclosure, hard to move around in and nearly impossible to clean.The floors are wood laminate - which has seen better days.

After (same view) - Lovely neutral tile all around, the jacuzzi is GONE and the toilet relocated, giving space for a vanity/sink that is well over twice the size of the original. In the left you can see the new class shower enclosure - much larger than the original and surely will be easier to clean. And as you can see in this picture, there's plenty of room across from the toilet to put a small cabinet - which is what I'm planning to do (for towels/linens - freeing up space in the upstairs hall closet). The medicine cabinet is the same (I was thinking of getting a new one, but the renovator recommended against it - I'm glad we took his advice).

Before (same room - looking in the window toward the closet) - now you can see that horrible shower enclosure - although it doesn't look as bad here as it really was.

After - The shower enclosure has roughly the same depth - but it's much wider (which you can't actually see from this angle). And there's a nice glass shelf on the opposite wall (inside the shower) with a bar underneath which will be great for facecloths. Again, note the spacious cabinet - and we replaced the towel bar with rings (left) - which I much prefer because towels always look fairly tidy with rings - no need to fold after using.
 

Wow, eh? Yeah... wow. It's all very neutral, of course - and a little bland. But bright towels and a couple of small pictures will change that in a flash - and I'll be able to refresh the look of the space just by changing accessories (that's the beauty of neutral fixtures, of course).

Once Trevor (our renovator) got underway with the bathroom, we had to use our guest bathroom. It didn't take long before I ended up asking him to quote a price to replace the vanity/sink in the guest bathroom. The quote seemed reasonable, so we went ahead with that, too.

Here's the "before" of the guest bathroom (below). Notice the same tiny, pokey vanity/sink - almost no storage and no counter space to set things on, either. Lots of wasted space on either side of the sink.

Voila! again, this vanity has twice the storage of the original - plus plenty of counter space. While he was at it, Trevor moved the old glass shelf that was in the master bathroom (and we didn't want or need in there anymore) and positioned it above the tub (just below the blue picture). It looks lovely - and with a couple of whatnots (maybe a silk plant?) on it, will really improve the overall look of the room. Of course, it would have been nice to replace the old tan tub in here, but we needed to keep to our budget.

So there you are - two greatly-improved bathrooms.

A side note - we taught both Laka and George to enjoy taking a shower in the old master-bathroom shower. It's hilarious to watch them splashing around - but I've not shared photos or video of that because, quite frankly, I was ashamed of how the shower looked. Now I'll be able to do that - once we get them used to the new equipment (which may take a while...).  Stay tuned for that!