It’s been about a year and a half since we bought our little bungalow, and we’ve finially gotten up the nerve to redo the bathroom. Despite being the world’s tiniest bathroom, the project feels really, really big.

Luckily, my parents are helping out a lot — or else I think we’d just keep living with a growing pile of boxed bathroom components in our living room, too gunshy to actually get started. I grew up in old houses that were perpetually being restored in one way or another, and they always did the work themselves. (In fact, their living room is torn apart right now as they’re in the midst of remodeling it.)

Anyway, this is one of the first major update that we’ve done on this house. Here are a couple of before shots. (Can you see the funky “door” that’s really a plastic accordian number that latches by way of a magnet on the door frame?)

Here’s the short version of the things that we want to change: get rid of the extra vanity cupboard, find a smaller sink, take out the fake plaster “tiles” on the walls, install some ventillation, make the window somehow waterproof… basically replace everything.

And here’s what we have so far today:

The question of the hour is how to cope with all the rubble. Kate called around to check into getting a small dumpster for a couple of weeks, but yikes — we’re in sticker shock. Might just buy several big garbage cans and haul them off to the city dump ourselves…

Anyone local in Indianapolis have a lead on cheap dumpster rental?

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004 at 9:08 am and is filed under House Projects. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.