Renovations - Bathroom/Laundry Room

This blog was supposed to be about our family, our marriage etc., but part of that should also include how we spend (what feels like) the majority of our time! RENOVATIONS!
We are currently in our second house. Our first house was a small 2 bedroom brick house that was in excellent condition but very dated style. So, in the 2 1/2 years that we lived there, we simply had to repaint, pull-up a bit of carpet and change a few curtains. Easy!

Then we bought this house:

This house needed help. This house was a 3 bedroom wooden house that was very much neglected over the years. In fact, when we got the keys, I cried. 

Note to others: NEVER buy a house while you're still postpartum - or pregnant, for that matter!!

We've been here now for almost 3 years and we've accomplished LOTS! But I'm just now starting to like it here. (pathetic princess, I know). Anyway, I'll use the next several posts to do some before and after shots of various parts of the house. 

First, make ONE usable space in the house!

So, we immediately had to gut the laundry room and toilet and build a PROPER bathroom/laundry room. And for the month or so before that was finished I was forced to bathe in this bathtub designed for very skinny people. The shower hose only reached up about 3 feet so you HAD to sit down in the bathtub and sort of hold this shower hose over your head and body. Meanwhile, the water pooled up behind as my backside acted as a bath plug! Fun memories! 

But, before the first 4 months were out, we had turned THIS:

Into this!!

Ahh.. much better!! Marco tiled the floor himself. We put insulation in the walls. Moved the toilet, added a shower, took out 2 windows and even put in stairs leading to the roof space to make storing things a bit easier! Marco even got someone to fix the door (which had a rough cat shaped hole cut in the bottom of it) and then stripped and oiled it! 

My favorite bit, however, is this one wall we managed to bring up:

it makes me smile :)

So. One room down.