Earl and I are considering gutting our bathrooms and updating them; however, given the configuration of our house, there is no way we can ever achieve the current look in bathrooms, regardless of our desire or our pocketbooks. This is because today’s bathrooms are out of control.
Visit a new-never-lived-in home, a model still on the market, and you’ll see what I mean. The bathrooms are the size of the first apartment I ever rented, with enough amenities to make the most curmudgeonly among us go “Wow.” There are heated floors for one’s chilled tootsies, steam showers for one’s nasal conditions, whirlpool tubs for one’s aching muscles, double sinks for oneself and one’s mate, a commode, a bidet, a floor length mirror, and more. Lighting, music, and heated towels have all invaded the room that was once set aside for the most basic of bodily functions; that is, bathing and peeing.
When you consider how much time you spend in the bathroom, is the room — that is, the space, of the bath — worth it? I don’t know. I can only imagine that today’s homeowners must view the bathroom as a getaway instead of a necessary place. A spa instead of a commode with handwashing accessories.
So why are Earl and I considering gutting our bathrooms if there is no room to really compete? For me, it’s about making them more functional and also getting rid of the ugly, really dated four inch tiles that hang out from the floor to the ceiling, screaming vintage nineteen-sixties when I want to scream early twenty-first century to some potential buyer down the road.
So, with that buyer in the back of my homeowner’s mind, I’ve decided that if I’m going to attract him or her with my newer bathroom, then I might as well pop for the remodeling now and enjoy the benefits rather than doing it down the road.
As for size, our new bathrooms won’t compete, but perhaps by the time we sell the place, logic and reality and common sense will have prevailed once again. Remember, it’s still basically only a place to wash and pee.
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