The Avocado Room
Here's the changes we have tackled so far, on the full bath. We shall call it "The Avocado Room", after the grand manor house tradition.
1. Ripped out lavender, seafoam, and pink wallpaper. This was my second act of beautification in the new home, my first one being ripping down the dreadful family room curtains which covered nothing except wall. I painted the bathroom walls off-white, and installed a sage and yellow shower curtain and a fern and natural toned wall hanging. Finding items to accessorize with avocado can be difficult. I don't know who thought seafoam and lavender would be a nice combination with avocado.
2. Straightened out the over-the-toilet cabinet, which was 1.5" cockeyed from the top to the bottom. This is the sort of thing you notice when you are lying in a bathtub directly across from it. I removed the wood trim around it, also (The previous owner had compensated for the crookedness by installing wood molding (also at the same cock-eyed angle) over the large gap in the wallboard). The trim was not so much to accentuate or beautify the cabinet as it was to cover the large hole left by the uneven placement of the cabinet. We spackled and painted the large gap in the wallboard once the cabinet was straightened up.
3. Replaced shower curtain rod with an arc shower rod. This was just to give us some more room. The standard tension rod and curtain went to our Reedsburg house.
4. Still to come - in the short term, replacement of the tarnished brass faucet (the current one is dull and ugly), tulip light fixture (ditto), avocado towel bars, and antiqued brass round towel loop. Perhaps we will put new innards in the toilet tank, which doesn't flush unless you hold down the handle. Also, I intend to replace the handles on the sink cabinet, which are medieval-style hammered black metal. Not only is it not appropriate for the decor, they are uncomfortable to pull on.
5. In the long term, replacement of the avocado fixtures. Meanwhile, we are living with the toilet (which uses a lot of water, but doesn't flush worth a darn, anyway).
6. The bathtub is rather wide, but curiously shallow, so baths are very unsatisfying. Due to the cost and difficulty of replacement - there is no plumbing access panel to the tub and shower, and the cast-iron avocado-enameled tub will be a real turkey to fix - we may learn to live with the tub.
7. The avocado lavatory sink will also go at some point. The countertop and tub surround are done in an amateurish avocado-speckled white tile. I may take a tiling class at Home Depot and redo those at some point with some clean white tile.
8. Lastly, the ugly vinyl floor tiles may be replaced at some point.
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