Week Four | October 18 | Mid Modern Primary Bathroom
For the Fall 2023 One Room Challenge we are tackling our Primary Family Bath — fun and fabulous with an MCM flair.
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Some before photos as well as some images of the inspiration for this project.
Progress: Drywall
This week the drywall went up at last! So nice to have that dusty, dirty part done. Ugh.
Speaking of dust: our whole family has moved downstairs for this project. We are camping out in the guest room (ORC #1) and using our lovely new green bathroom (ORC #8) through this process. I’m thankful we have that option, and while it feels like the whole house has been in chaos for a long time, at least we have a space where we can retreat.
You can see in the photos that the tub is gone. We are replacing it with a shower instead which feels very small… it’s the same footprint, but right now it feels very, very small. But there’s nothing to be done. This is a small bathroom. Sadly, it isn’t getting any bigger. And I’m sure it will feel bigger once it is finished.
Drywall is up!
Shower Fittings
I’m really excited about this shower, though, because we have a gorgeous chrome rainhead shower and fabulous fittings all from Speakman, one of this project’s sponsors. Actually, this showerhead was supposed to go in the bathroom downstairs, but the plumber messed up his measurements, so we weren’t able to use it. Too bad! I use the Primary Bathroom a lot more often anyway, so I will get to use the rainhead rather than saving it for our guests. Probably a big win in the end for me!
This Waterslide Bar allows me to convert our standard shower into one with a rain head very easily.
Just add the rainhead to the Waterslide Bar, and I will have a spa shower at home!
I chose the Speakman Neo WS-3010 Diverter Waterslide Bar because you can retrofit a standard shower to a rainshower with a handheld attachment without replumbing most of the time — and that was true for this bathroom. So I will have a hotel spa shower in my very own bathroom. I can’t wait!
Next week: tile installation begins. And things get very real around here!
Gardening News
We STILL haven’t had frost here! We had a big freeze warning last week, and I got everything ready — cut all kinds of flowers and cleared everything away. But nope. It didn’t even frost. So I am still living into the beauty of this lingering fall with roses blooming everywhere! And I’m not complaining — the snow will be flying soon, we know.
What I thought would be the last bouquets of summer… but I’ll probably have a few more!
Thanks to my sponsors for this project!
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I am thankful for your support and wholeheartedly recommend the products I used in this bathroom!
To Linda Weinstein, the creator of the One Room Challenge, I offer my most sincere thanks. Thank you for offering this kind of opportunity and for opening it up to anyone. And to Apartment Therapy, the ORC media sponsor: thank you for making this possible! And to all of the other ORC participants: I’ll be sure to stop by to admire your work! It is always fun to do this together!
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Here’s to another great project and all of the DIY energy that the ORC inspires!
Cheers!
Angela
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