Bathroom Under the Stairs [Or, The Epic Saga Continues]

I know I haven't posted in awhile. I'm sorry. It's not that nothing has gone on at the house, it's just...I've been busy! Since I've last posted, I've turned 30, gone to Vegas for a week [with a day trip to LA to see a friend I haven't seen in 11 years] and have been trying to tie up little things...because the BIG things are gonna require some help.

You may recall the bathroom under the stairs. I've posted about it before, and how incredibly...grating on my soul...it was. Seriously, the idea of a 1/4 bath grosses my OCD self to pieces. I've never used this bathroom in the almost 5 years I've owned this house.  And I never let anyone else use it...Why? Because if they use this bathroom, there is no way for them to wash their hands. Or anything. Just...ahhhhhhh!
Whenever someone would come over and want a tour of the house, I would walk by the door to this...monstrosity..and say, very quickly and quietly, "andthisisthebathroomunderthestairs" and keep walking. I never, ever showed it to anyone.

And with 4 bathrooms in this house, I thought I could spare getting rid of one, and having a nice walk-in closet on the main level of the house was very appealing.
But I had no idea how to approach the project.. So I called the plumbing/heating/cooling guys who have helped me with other large projects in the past [combining gas and water lines, installing new central AC unit] and had them help.

 

The next time I'm ever in a situation and need to remove a toilet permanently, I know the answer. Sawzall. Seriously. If I had one of those, my life would be complete. They are incredibly awesome and watching the plumbers use them today, it gave me so many ideas :) I could've taken that wall out so much quicker  if I had one of those years ago...
This is the ceiling in the bathroom under the stairs. I've gotta figure out a way to fix this. When "someone" installed the recessed lighting in the dining room, they knocked out the veiling in the bathoom-under-the-stairs and ran the 4 wires down the outside of the wall inside.
Yeah. Don't ask.

Gratuitous couch photo this morning. With Spring sunlight. I heart my $1 couch. Not that it has *anything* to do with bathoom-under-the-stairs.

Yeah, this thing has to go sometime soon too...Old school thermostat. But that's another story...I think I was distracted waiting for the plumbers this morning..

And voila! After less than an hour here, the plumbers had removed all traces of the corner toilet.....water and waste line. Yay! Now the bathoom-under-the-stairs is just a closet...with some big holes in the floor and needing lots of cosmetic love.

Yeah. Filling this thing in, without it looking like hell, should be fun. :)

Comments

[Kitt]

Love the couch! And the thermostat replacement takes about five minutes. Seriously. Did it here and now have programmable ones.

Congrats on going from water closet to just plain closet. I suggest you line it with bookshelves. That's assuming you already have a coat closet.

And happy birthday! Buy yourself a sawzall. They're not that expensive.

[MarbleCity]

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[Cort]

If you need a digital programmable thermostat, I have one. I bought one almost two years ago but never installed it. My new heat pump, which I bought shortly after that, required its own special thermostat. So the thermostat I bought was useless, but I couldn't return it since I tore open the package. Anyway, let me know if you want to work out a deal :-)