The Baby and the Bathwater

When you purchase a home that was built in 1962, you can expect that a certain amount of home renovation will be required.  What you shouldn’t expect, however, is that you’ll spend more time undoing what the previous homeowners decided was “good style and craftsmanship” than actually improving and doing what you want to do.  We have spent countless hours jack-hammering out foot-thick concrete koi ponds in the backyard; we’ve pulled the chair rail off the ceiling and replaced it with real crown moldings; we’ve painted over the fuchsia paint in the back bedroom twice now; we’ve peeled off the “ripped” wallpaper that the previous owners thought would create a marbled look on the entryway walls.  Do these people not watch HGTV?!

And now, now we are finally getting around to one of the most egregious decorating disasters in the house:  the family bathroom.  I’ll post some photos of the before and after a little later, but I just couldn’t resist posting these of Little Bear taking her bath in the kitchen sink while the bathroom is being gutted and rebuilt.  Being that our master bathroom was even worse off than the main bathroom, we only have a pathetic excuse for a shower in there, and babies and showers aren’t a good mix.  So Little Bear has been enjoying her baths in the kitchen sink!  When we remodeled the kitchen a while back, one of the best things we did was put in a very deep, very big, single basin sink with a tall faucet.  Perfect size for a 17-pound baby!  And the whole family can gather around at eye-height and watch her splash and play!

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