Check out our new bathroom!

The summer we bought the cabin was filled with major renovations.  The place we bought has an amazing yard - tons of outdoor space, 2 guest cabins, a garage, shed, and huge deck wrapping around our little main cabin.  But all of it was seriously run-down.  And, the bathroom was completely inadequate. 

The bathroom was so tiny, I couldn't get photos of it before.  But it was like this - the door swung in toward the toilet and grazed the bowl as it opened.  The tiny shower stall exited toward the toilet tank and there was literally just 12" of space between the two.  The sink was wedged into the 18" of space between the side of the shower and the door.  And, wouldn't you know, the weekend we took possession of the cabin is when our son wanted to start potty training!  It was beyond awkward trying to help him in that little tin can of a bathroom.  But, he was convinced.  And, when a kids wants to potty train, any parent knows, you do it!

But, that bathroom was also the first thing on our list to change.  We had to expand it.  A family of four simply cannot cope with a "barely a bathroom." The most interesting part is that beside the bathroom was a closet/room for the water heater which was almost as big as the bathroom!  So we stripped everything out, removed the wall between the two and built a feature wall out into the dining room space to hold the water heater.  The new bathroom is now comfortable, spacious and fresh.  It even has a full tub!  And, the coolest part is that we did the entire renovation for just $800.  All new fixtures, new walls, ceiling, floor - complete gut and re-build!  Oh, yeah, and a hell of a lot of hard work.  But, that's not fit for this post!

Once we'd pulled all the old fixtures, I had the goofy idea to set up the toilet in the back yard with the old medicine cabinet and get the kids to pose for photos.  We even told them that was our new bathroom and since they were only 3 and almost 5, they wide-eyed believed us :)  It was a hoot getting the photos of them, although she was very reluctant lol

Isn't it funny it took me almost five years to finally scrapbook that?  It literally took me until now to finally come up with a plan. I never forgot these photos, rather, just couldn't think of how to make that work.  The best part is that the kids had forgotten - it was awesome reminding them :)

This is another Scrapbook Studio kit!  I forget which month - it was one that I got too busy to get the layout done in time.  The paper is mostly Simple Stories and I'm not sure of most of the embellishments, although the film strip sure makes me think Tim Holtz!