A little over 4 years after we moved into this place, and with our ensuite bathroom top of the list of priorities for renovation when we moved into this place, tomorrow morning will see us finally begin the renovation of our ensuite bathroom.
Eish.
It’s not like we haven’t done other stuff instead. The living room has been transformed. The kitchen refloored. The bar has been completely redone. New French windows. We built a braai. We got rid of the horrible ou doos tiling in the entrance hallway. The kids’ bedrooms have been recarpeted and reglazed. There are several (or more) other new windows around the place.
And these were the things that we chose to do. There was a lot of fixer-upper stuff that has been forced upon us (and this) along the way.
It would have been great to get all of this done ages ago, but the magic money tree simply doesn’t bear that much fruit.
The bathroom was awful when we moved in – hence the priority thing – and so we had to do a few things to it to make it less awful and more livable with. But it turned out that those things apparently made it very livable with, and so we have lived with it for 4 whole years.
Oops.
Now, the time has come to bite the bullet and get on with starting over. Over the next few days, it will be completely gutted, back to the bare walls (and in a couple of places, beyond the bare walls). And then a new bathroom shall spring forth, phoenix-like, from the fiery(?) ruins.
And, since they were here anyway, we’re getting them to remove the hideous guest bathroom tiles and sort that out too.
The next few weeks are going to be pretty stressful, but it will – it will – all be worth it.
