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I woke up with Yet Another Screwy Idea. First, Yet Another Thing We Talked About Doing But Have Not — replacing the combo in the hall bathroom with a shower. It occurred to me that I could legitimately put together dimensions of that bath, and go around places that redo bathrooms and ask questions about that project in a way that would answer a ton of questions about showers and flooring in general, and I wouldn’t have to feel guilty about doing this, because if I liked what they had to say about the hall bath replacement project, I could get on their schedule and have that done after T. — the only person currently using that particular shower — goes off to college.
I proposed this idea to R., whose response could be characterized as cautiously supportive, with a double side order of WTF. Not _him_ saying WTF — the explanation made perfect sense to him, because he understands the business model of people who run showrooms and how I feel about taking advantage of them to educate myself while directing all of my business somewhere else entirely. _ME_ saying WTF, because he commented that it might make it difficult to sell this house in a few years if we replaced the combo with a shower because then there wouldn’t be a tub in it.
It’s a double dose of WTF for the following reasons. First, we have a jetted soaking tub in the master bathroom, so _we would still have a tub_. A very nice tub. Second, there’s really no problem with selling a house with no tub anymore, and in fact if you have plumbers come out they will comment on your Very Nice Tub and how no one uses those any more.
Anyway. So I sat down to draw a picture of the bathroom, and got a text from Priestess with some unfortunate health developments in a family member. We chatted for a while while I continued to take measurements, draw, retake measurements, and finally just note on the drawing that I definitely screwed up somewhere because the scale drawing showed something as a foot but it was only 9”. Whatever. Millwork measuring error on my part, probably.
I then took my drawing over to Concord Kitchen and Design Center 2.5 miles away here in town, where I was impressed by their kitchen displays, not that impressed by their bathroom vanity and sink displays, and sad to learn that they don’t do any shower or related stuff at all. Which, fair. Nor do they recommend anyone. I took some pictures of some specialty pullouts in the kitchen cabinets. I think one is for knife storage, but I’m not sure. One is definitely a pullout spice rack, in a display right next to a Wolf Range. LOL. Everyone stores their spices next to the range even tho it is such a terrible idea. There was also a pullout that had basically 3 bins for spatulas or whatever. Clearly, there has been a push to get everything off the counter, but still have it handy. I don’t know what to think of any of that. I thought the appliance garage development was entertaining, altho not something I ever wanted; I had no idea they were gonna take this so freaking far. But it’s just as well I’m wandering around looking at all the stuff, because I will definitely need to have this background later on in my art project.
ETA: I went to the Lowe’s website and was poking around at bathtub conversion projects and stumbled into CleanCut and Miracle Method. What. I mean, yay?
ETAYA:
After a significant amount of annoyance, I finally came up with a plan for the bathrooms. I’m gonna ask for the music room bathroom to be curbless (and as ADA compliant as that tiny thing can be made to be). No one showers in there anyway, which is exactly where you want to put the curbless — where it won’t generate water problems for anyone else. It is next to a room that is a legal bedroom, near an egress that I’m pretty sure could work for wheels, and also near the elevator. So. Perfect. Nothing else will be curbless, altho my bathroom will have something that is sized for a rollin, but with a short curb. There are products that can put a ramp and raise the floor of the shower in a flow through sort of way that doesn’t scratch anything, so if you can cope with other ramps throughout the suite, that is just one more. Probably will never happen.
My nieces are meh on the shower seats, so I’ll probably reply to V. with yes on the Transolid option on #3, never mind on #5, and probably just duplicate the Transolid from #3 for #6. But I will sleep on it first. R. seems to be completely fine with this outcome. If only getting to this point didn’t make me cry.
Also! Apparently V. is a store manager at one of the Sink and Spout showrooms and there’s one of those at Drum Hill, so I’m going to check that out, but not tomorrow because they are closed on Sunday. I kinda don’t need to, because I’ve completely abandoned trying to make curbless work other than in an all-tile context, but having had the screwy idea of spec’ing a replacement for the combo in the green bathroom, I kinda want to go forth.
I proposed this idea to R., whose response could be characterized as cautiously supportive, with a double side order of WTF. Not _him_ saying WTF — the explanation made perfect sense to him, because he understands the business model of people who run showrooms and how I feel about taking advantage of them to educate myself while directing all of my business somewhere else entirely. _ME_ saying WTF, because he commented that it might make it difficult to sell this house in a few years if we replaced the combo with a shower because then there wouldn’t be a tub in it.
It’s a double dose of WTF for the following reasons. First, we have a jetted soaking tub in the master bathroom, so _we would still have a tub_. A very nice tub. Second, there’s really no problem with selling a house with no tub anymore, and in fact if you have plumbers come out they will comment on your Very Nice Tub and how no one uses those any more.
Anyway. So I sat down to draw a picture of the bathroom, and got a text from Priestess with some unfortunate health developments in a family member. We chatted for a while while I continued to take measurements, draw, retake measurements, and finally just note on the drawing that I definitely screwed up somewhere because the scale drawing showed something as a foot but it was only 9”. Whatever. Millwork measuring error on my part, probably.
I then took my drawing over to Concord Kitchen and Design Center 2.5 miles away here in town, where I was impressed by their kitchen displays, not that impressed by their bathroom vanity and sink displays, and sad to learn that they don’t do any shower or related stuff at all. Which, fair. Nor do they recommend anyone. I took some pictures of some specialty pullouts in the kitchen cabinets. I think one is for knife storage, but I’m not sure. One is definitely a pullout spice rack, in a display right next to a Wolf Range. LOL. Everyone stores their spices next to the range even tho it is such a terrible idea. There was also a pullout that had basically 3 bins for spatulas or whatever. Clearly, there has been a push to get everything off the counter, but still have it handy. I don’t know what to think of any of that. I thought the appliance garage development was entertaining, altho not something I ever wanted; I had no idea they were gonna take this so freaking far. But it’s just as well I’m wandering around looking at all the stuff, because I will definitely need to have this background later on in my art project.
ETA: I went to the Lowe’s website and was poking around at bathtub conversion projects and stumbled into CleanCut and Miracle Method. What. I mean, yay?
ETAYA:
After a significant amount of annoyance, I finally came up with a plan for the bathrooms. I’m gonna ask for the music room bathroom to be curbless (and as ADA compliant as that tiny thing can be made to be). No one showers in there anyway, which is exactly where you want to put the curbless — where it won’t generate water problems for anyone else. It is next to a room that is a legal bedroom, near an egress that I’m pretty sure could work for wheels, and also near the elevator. So. Perfect. Nothing else will be curbless, altho my bathroom will have something that is sized for a rollin, but with a short curb. There are products that can put a ramp and raise the floor of the shower in a flow through sort of way that doesn’t scratch anything, so if you can cope with other ramps throughout the suite, that is just one more. Probably will never happen.
My nieces are meh on the shower seats, so I’ll probably reply to V. with yes on the Transolid option on #3, never mind on #5, and probably just duplicate the Transolid from #3 for #6. But I will sleep on it first. R. seems to be completely fine with this outcome. If only getting to this point didn’t make me cry.
Also! Apparently V. is a store manager at one of the Sink and Spout showrooms and there’s one of those at Drum Hill, so I’m going to check that out, but not tomorrow because they are closed on Sunday. I kinda don’t need to, because I’ve completely abandoned trying to make curbless work other than in an all-tile context, but having had the screwy idea of spec’ing a replacement for the combo in the green bathroom, I kinda want to go forth.