Mobile Meme: Bathroom

So I’m sitting here in the bathroom wondering why I set this weeks Mobile Meme in here. I could have come up with more creative places but I thought this one would be humorous. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I’m right.

I hate this room because it used to be my sanctuary but now it’s nothing more than a huge hole in the wall with a toilet. The sink needs to be replaced, there are no walls in the shower, and I’m afraid to have anyone even use the place because I’m sure they’d be thinking “Ewe!” in reference to the rusty sink and half bath. I can’t wait until that big account comes through so I can finally do something in here.

I’d love to put up new walls, a new floor and definitely a new vanity. I want to get that “Tub Surround” stuff from Bath Fitter so that I don’t have to worry about scrubbing grout lines a few months down the road. There’s no storage in here so a nice cabinet with a vanity would look great and I can’t wait until I can put in a new floor. There’s peal-n-stick linoleum at Home Depot that would look wonderful in here. I’ve just been itching to do this for 4 years.

You see…I’ve been using my fathers shower because it’s the only one with walls at the moment. It’s cramped in there though. It’s just a small closet, in a small bathroom and my sister has so many hair products it’s unreal. I don’t understand how anyone could need that much stuff. I have shampoo, conditioner, body wash, a razor and loofa. It all fits perfectly on one small shelf so there’s hardly any room being taken up at all. That’s the same way this bathroom would look, especially considering there would be storage in here after I redo the place because then none of her makeup or any of that other useless stuff would be thrown around.

The sink is filled with hair care products and make-up. It’s hard to even wash your hands anymore because the faucet is so old that it’s hard to turn the handles. The over-flow hole in the sink has rusted through so when the water in the sink is turned on – you need to control the water flow to something on the low side so that you don’t get any water under the sink (through the hole).

We moved in here just as they created the apartments up here, so 17 years of using the sinks and showers would obviously have their toll taken on them over time. Some people, when they take good care of the bathroom, it can uphold itself for quite a few years. Unfortunately by the time my sister and I were in that mind set, the damage was already done.

The shower rusted out because of how careless the contractor was when he framed out the bathroom window. The window itself is inside of the shower and instead of tilting the ledge so that the water beads off, it was left flat so that the water is collected in it. After 15 years of this, the wall became rotted. With rot, comes mold…with mold comes drywall being destroyed and having to be taken out so that there wasn’t any toxic mold (black mold) being spewed into the air that 3 people breath in on a regular basis.

The pictures will basically show you everything I’ve had to deal with over the years. Having a contractor in here recently, the damage done plus any remodeling would run us in the ballpark of $3,000. This is why I’ve been saving any and all money that I can towards this project. I have about a thousand saved, but that’s only 1/3 of the bill. You can imagine how annoying it gets sharing a small bathroom with three people. Especially considering my fathers bathroom is in worse shape, we have tarps on the walls just so we can use the shower. It’s horrible, I can’t wait until things are fixed.

Hopefully the next time I have any pictures of my bathroom, it will be the finished product of my brand new bathroom. ::wishes::

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