the bathroom bomb...

I knew it was coming. The bathroom at little MichMansion was something we didn't talk about much cause I knew it was bad.

We found out last night, after my birthday dinner, that all the copious amounts of epoxy, silicon and other strange adhesives are impossible to get off. Yes, impossible. Basically here is the run down:

:: the walls, with their horrible, horrible 'paneling' if you can call it that, can be fixed fairly easily... we hope.

:: the surround in the tub area was hiding the poor retro tile covered in epoxy, and has to come out, yes I said all the tile.

:: the pretty little 50's style tub had a not so pretty sliding shower door, which left?? you guessed it epoxy on my porcelain tub. (here I had delusions of just reglazing everything, but even with sanding it will always be there, clumps and stripes of adhesive)

Once these things get taken care of you start the trickle affect. All the walls have tile and there is no good place to stop ripping it out. So it will probably just have to come out, all of it. The floor was already destroyed from the foundation work.

Before... I guess there should be an 'after foundation work before de-icky' Cause it doesn't look horrible here.

At this point there is no plan. Just an icky feeling of knowing we are going to be spending a bunch of money. Maybe some people would be excited. And we have some money to get some work done, but I dislike it. I would rather have a less than perfect bathroom and money in the bank.

But little MichMansion's bathroom is below what I consider livable. Those that know me know I have lived in some icky places in Abilene, "The Shack" was funky, and Cimarron, yes I am calling you out, was pretty gross AND had a giant hole my kitten got lost in!


Anyway. Now I am just complaining. I like my house. When I pretend the bathroom just doesn't exist I like it a lot. MichMansion will one day be a cutie.... and maybe I will learn how to spend money.