Our impending arrival has finally given us the kick up the backside we need. The tiles and towels have been stored in our spare bedroom for 9 months or something horrendous like that, writing for us to get sorted, but now they finally get their day to break out of the plastic! So about a week and a half ago a group of plumbers and decorated embarked on transforming our tired and a bit minging bathroom in to an oasis of calm. Ambitious I know, especially considering the whole place is about 9ft by 6 ft but I have grand plans.
It is going really well, with the redesign in full swing and the tiles going up on the wall. See below for a few 'in-progress' shots.
Massive downside though. What happens to every woman when she is pregnant - yep she suddenly needs to go to the loo about 20 times a day. So when the plumber announced we weren't going to have an operational toilet for a couple of days I was disappointed. When he announced we had bought the wrong toilet from bathstore and that we were going to need to wait a week or so I cried. Just cried. Thankfully they came up with a temporary solution - I think mainly as the plumber just didn't want to incur any more emotional wrath from a pregnant woman on the edge, but it worked! Never again will I underestimate how much I value the ability to flush one's own loo!
Moral of the story
- Sort out major home improvements before you are pregnant and have no patience or bladder control
- When in bathstore become a mind reader and instantly know when you need a toilet with a side waste pipe option
- When everything goes wrong, play the pregnancy card and plumbers and bathstore folk will bend over backwards to find solutions more quickly. Infact not quite sure why I haven't done it before.
Fingers crossed by the end of this week we should have a fully functioning bathroom. Woo hoo! Now to just sort out the nursery ;)
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