Small Bathroom Project

Yes, both the bathroom and the project were small. We decided that I was sick of plunging out 'cloggers' as a friend of ours calls them. Time to replace the first generation low flow toilets with the new and improved ones. One for upstairs, one for downstairs.

So, on recommendation of about a million people, we went with Toto toilets. Downstairs we went green with the dual flush model; you can choose between the .9 gallons per flush or the more standard 1.6 gallons per flush. You figure out which you want to use when...

While we were at it, we decided to replace the hulking vanity in the downstairs bathroom. It was water damaged at the bottom from years of toilet overflow (see 'cloggers' discussion above). And we saw a really space saving design at our friends' Mike & Lisa's house, so we got the name of it and bought ourselves one.

Everything was installed yesterday. It was so cute when people asked us if we were going to do it ourselves.

Here are the before and afters...




See what was hidden behind the old vanity! Such a cool discovery. Of course, there is a slight reaching problem for the children, so we will be coming up with a different option for them. You can't really tell from the pictures, but it is so much roomier now! We are really happy with how everything turned out.

We decided against gutting the whole bathroom. 50s retro pink & black tile are coming back, baby! www.savethepinkbathrooms.com