Making Room in the Bathroom

People ask me all the time, “Lindsey, how do I know when a room in my home is ready for an update?”

I will usually say something like, “Does the room in question have hunter green faux-marble peel-n-stick vinyl flooring? And if so, is that flooring the very best thing about that room?”

If they answer both questions with a ‘yes,’ then I can confidently assure them that their room is overdue for an update.

This conversation has happened exactly zero times in real life. But that’s what I would have said if Stephanie from The Styled Soul had asked me about her before bathroom. Behold:

 

 

Is there really anything great happening in here? I think no. That rug is cute.

But Stephanie is no fool. She got all up in this bathroom’s business, gutting and redoing nearly everything, like ditching that peel-n-stick tile for legit tile-tile, and trading in the boxy vanity for a streamlined sink. And an even cuter rug. The only thing I would have done differently would be to flip the toilet to be on the same wall as the sink, but I imagine that would have required a lot of plumbing witchcraftery.

Besides, that’s not an awkward toilet.

 

(Read this next line in Crocodile Dundee’s voice)

 

This is an awkward toilet:

 

I mean, there’s just no getting around it.  Literally.

 

 

But Tricia had bigger and better plans for her space. Believe it or not, you are looking at the same view!

She moved the vanity area to the opposite wall, I don’t know what the heck happened to the window, (she swears she doesn’t miss it!), and the toilet?

The toilet has a happy ending, moving into this spacious little nook where the old shower had been. See the whole configuration breakdown on her blog 724 South House.