The downstairs bathroom...
We added some color to the walls, and painted up those brown oak cabinets...
It is a very quirky bathroom.
The first thing you see when you walk in the front door is the toilet...that is if you allow your eyes to wander beyond the vine encrusted wallpaper covering every available wallspace in the dining room and stairway hall. The bathroom is maybe 8-10 feet long, but the floor has an actual hill in it; adding an element of risk to your bathing/showering experience. If your feet are wet, or you are moving any faster then a large turtle, the probability of a slip or fall has been mathematically determined to be in the dangerously high category. The underwriters of our liability insurance are concerned. Additionally, if you are over 5'6" tall, it is likely that you will bonk your head (while showering) on the overhang in the shower...probably more then once. But it is clean, freshly painted, and actually a lot cuter then previously. So if you do fall and injure yourself, the risk of infection is actually quite low.
Another element of risk inherent to your showering experience is the water temperature. If the dial is a clock: 4:30=scorching hot. 5:30 arctic cold. BATHER BEWARE ;o)
Can you see yourself emerging from this room with bright red scorched skin from the hot water that made you jump back in the shower so fast that you bang your head on the overhead ceiling that drops down a foot in the middle of the shower. So you have a goose egg on your forehead, and then while drying off and rubbing your head and patting dry your freshly scorched skin you slip on the uneven floor limiting any remaining mobility?
But like I said, at least it is alot cuter now then it was.
The first thing you see when you walk in the front door is the toilet...that is if you allow your eyes to wander beyond the vine encrusted wallpaper covering every available wallspace in the dining room and stairway hall. The bathroom is maybe 8-10 feet long, but the floor has an actual hill in it; adding an element of risk to your bathing/showering experience. If your feet are wet, or you are moving any faster then a large turtle, the probability of a slip or fall has been mathematically determined to be in the dangerously high category. The underwriters of our liability insurance are concerned. Additionally, if you are over 5'6" tall, it is likely that you will bonk your head (while showering) on the overhang in the shower...probably more then once. But it is clean, freshly painted, and actually a lot cuter then previously. So if you do fall and injure yourself, the risk of infection is actually quite low.
Another element of risk inherent to your showering experience is the water temperature. If the dial is a clock: 4:30=scorching hot. 5:30 arctic cold. BATHER BEWARE ;o)
Can you see yourself emerging from this room with bright red scorched skin from the hot water that made you jump back in the shower so fast that you bang your head on the overhead ceiling that drops down a foot in the middle of the shower. So you have a goose egg on your forehead, and then while drying off and rubbing your head and patting dry your freshly scorched skin you slip on the uneven floor limiting any remaining mobility?
But like I said, at least it is alot cuter now then it was.
Before and Afters:
Do you like the flush sign I found at the local antique store?
Here is a better look at the cabinets we painted...as well as the location of the 1-2" downhill slope.
Next up for this location is a change in the vinyl floors. Suggestions?
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