it's a change for the better, a reno

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We recently did a full renovation in our upstairs bathroom. I actually designed this room myself and purchased all the items on-line or and the floor tiles in home depot. Then I changed the layout of the room and reversed the location of the shower and the sink. This bathroom lays in the middle of our two upstairs bedrooms, ours and a guestroom.

"R" today's letter for today's A-Z challenge

"R" for renovate- renovation.....

1.

to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again;repair.

2.

to reinvigorate; refresh; revive.

This renovation was a total gut job. Believe me there were these funky little 1970's half walls with the funky tiles, gold with this swirly little pattern. I wish I had before pictures but I wasn't thinking! I'm sure I have something in one of my bins but my bins are huge and up above the closet in the guest room. You'll just have to take my word for it when I tell you it was time for a re-do!

We made the doors to the bedrooms on either side of the bathroom narrower, moved and changed them to open out instead of in. And my personal favorite feature of the entire room is the new smaller higher window. You see the one that was there before was large and reached all the way down to the toilet tank.

Why did I hate the larger window you ask? Because most of the men folk would pay more attention to the view outside the window when peeing. This as you can imagine didn't do much for their aim. My contractor laughed when I told him to put the window up high enough so they can't see and pee at the same time. I'm sick of cleaning the floor.

We did this bathroom renovation on a budget. We cut costs by buying things on sale, and purchased close out items, we did all the painting by ourselves and by using contractors from our community who were recommended to us by our friends and neighbors.

Have you ever done a renovation? What kind of experience did you have?

And don't forget to tell me what you think of my bathroom renovation and the paint color.