We have a bathroom in our family room

Are you bored yet? Do you leave this tour looking like this...I'm kind of getting bored. But regardless, I will push on for the sake of recording this remodel. I think that years down the road I will be glad I did.
Moving right along, let's look back at one of the first rooms we did: the downstairs bathroom. There was a lot of floral wallpaper, a bit too "rain forest-like" for me, so I pulled it down. I would like to thank the previous owners for not putting the paper up properly because it did not come down well at all. I do not know much about wallpaper, but I think there is some kind of pre-goop stuff that you are supposed to put on the wall to make it come down easier later, should you ever choose to take it down. Which of course you one day will. Wallpaper dates itself pretty fast in my opinion, even the nice, fancy, traditional stuff...but that is just my opinion.

Another problem with this bathroom is that it is literally right off the family room. No hallway, no wall, no barrier; just you on a toilet, a door, and then everyone else on the other side of the door watching TV and listening to you in the bathroom. Do you get what I am saying? It's weird.

The cute carpenter wanted to move everything around and fix the issue, but I convinced him that it was not that big of a deal and it would be convenient for potty training our children. So we left it, and now we regret it. We gutted the existing space by ripping out the old vanity, toilet, and then sledge hammering out the tile and concrete underfloor.

I have so many questions for this picture. Like why did I let my kids sit this close to the hardwood floor installation? Why is there a tea cup on the one of the wood planks ? Why does the cute carpenter not have shoes on?

Here is what it looks like now...

There is great reading material available for the girls...
And if you do not feel like reading, then you can just leave the door open and watch TV, as this is the view from the throne. Can you deal with that?!?!?

Clearly, we should have dealt with this issue before remodeling. Though I hate to say it, the cute carpenter has a game plan to remedy this problem, it just involves more dust and work. So for now we will just enjoy the convenience of it all, and dread the inevitable day that is coming when my husband can't deal with it anymore.

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