Our bathroom is, by far, the smallest room in the house. It is also the room we've got the most plans for, and the room we've already done the most work to.First up, though there's a nice window in the room (overlooking a brilliant red Sand Cherry bush), we decided we needed an extractor fan in the ceiling. For us, the key to a successful renovation is to remain calm and not turn into The Bickersons. A four hour job can become a two day job (the light switch which has to incorporate a fan switch has wiring that needs updating). The fact that our house doesn't have soffits deep enough to accommodate the exhaust vent was a challenge that forced us to work creatively, and we solved the problem with a minimum of stress (and three trips to Home Hardware). With the fan installed, I had to patch the area surrounding the new switch plate as some plaster had been removed and a teeny-weeny-woony bit of wallpaper was torn. To make a long story short - most of the wallpaper has been removed following my botched patch-job and we're deciding on a colour to paint the walls.
The room has an assortment of kinda matching greens, one of which has now been removed. We are stuck with the khaki-green clover and the veins of forest green in the tile, and the khaki- brown marbling the vanity, which we will shift. I'm thinking a warm, bees-wax colour, roughly applied to look a bit moody. We'll see.
We're also still deciding on a replacement toilet. Our current museum piece takes three flushes to "do the job" and we've plans to install a high efficiency, low flush model, installed parallel to the sink (to allow for legroom with is currently missing). In the meantime, in the October issue of Real Simple magazine, in the "double duty household items" column, there was a suggestion on how to reduce the amount of water your toilet uses to operate. The magazine suggested filling plastic pop bottles with water and placing them in the tank so that, following a flush, the toilet would require less water to fill. I took this a step further and popped two bricks in the tank (the pop bottles seemed to want to move around) and thereby reduced the amount of water used for each flush by 3L!
And, further to my "potty" talk, we've managed to find a 100% recycled toilet paper that is .... get this ... affordable. Recently while at Whole Foods Market, the store everyone seems to love to hate, we purchased Cascades 24 roll toilet paper for $7.99 (33 cents per roll). It's always seemed irresponsible to me that we need to destroy so much land and wildlife in order to convert ancient growth trees into a product we, to be honest, could use leaves to do.
The room has an assortment of kinda matching greens, one of which has now been removed. We are stuck with the khaki-green clover and the veins of forest green in the tile, and the khaki- brown marbling the vanity, which we will shift. I'm thinking a warm, bees-wax colour, roughly applied to look a bit moody. We'll see.
We're also still deciding on a replacement toilet. Our current museum piece takes three flushes to "do the job" and we've plans to install a high efficiency, low flush model, installed parallel to the sink (to allow for legroom with is currently missing). In the meantime, in the October issue of Real Simple magazine, in the "double duty household items" column, there was a suggestion on how to reduce the amount of water your toilet uses to operate. The magazine suggested filling plastic pop bottles with water and placing them in the tank so that, following a flush, the toilet would require less water to fill. I took this a step further and popped two bricks in the tank (the pop bottles seemed to want to move around) and thereby reduced the amount of water used for each flush by 3L!
And, further to my "potty" talk, we've managed to find a 100% recycled toilet paper that is .... get this ... affordable. Recently while at Whole Foods Market, the store everyone seems to love to hate, we purchased Cascades 24 roll toilet paper for $7.99 (33 cents per roll). It's always seemed irresponsible to me that we need to destroy so much land and wildlife in order to convert ancient growth trees into a product we, to be honest, could use leaves to do.
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