We went to see the designers for the downstairs bathroom remodel, and when we were done, we wrote them a check for about a third of the cost of the project. The plan is that they'll start some time around the beginning of May. The project should take about a month to complete, and for about two days, possibly just one, the bathroom won't be usable. We figure we'll migrate my mother upstairs for that day, letting her sleep in my daughters bedroom, or possibly on the upstairs couch, if she'd prefer. She really needs continual and frequent access to a bathroom!
The finished result should look pretty nice -- brighter, warmer colors, walk-in tub with slidable shower head (attached or hand-held), an ADA-height toilet and sink, non-skid flooring, new cabinets in the laundry room. I would have been content with the existing laundry room ones, but my wife really wanted new ones -- the ones that are there now are about thirty years old, and warping -- so thats what we're doing. A small closet will be built into the laundry room, too. Its kind of ironic to be thinking about whether we want to stay in this house, while at the same time spending this kind of money on it. I don't expect that we'd get back but a fraction of it if we sold the house; on the other hand, we know we need it, and it'll be such an improvement, it will be a strong selling point when we DO sell.
We took the opportunity to look at a zero-barrier shower display they had set up. It was pretty nice. As they had it, the setup is about half again too large for our master bath (which is pretty small), but perhaps we'd be able to do something like it anyway. Not right away, though!
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