The time has come.  The time is now.

Have you ever had a room in your house that you are just confounded by?  It’s completely immobilizing.  You can’t decide what the heck to do and zero options seem right.  So what do you do?  If you’re me, you do nothing.  For a looooooong time.

Welcome to my master bathroom.

This was right around when the dust settled over 10 years ago.  We didn’t even have lights yet!!  We removed the crazy wallpaper, smoothed out the walls and added the crown moulding.  At the time we were remodeling the kitchen, family room, living room, 3 bathrooms AND adding wood floors throughout – this bathroom was seriously the least of my worries.  Put a bandaid on it and call it a day.

Of course, that vanity drove me insane.  Back in the day (remember?!) light wood was considered evil and dark wood was the thang.  Ed and I were newly engaged and he was still courting me, so I was able to finagle him to help me sand this puppy.  I cut the middle out of the doors, stained the whole thing and voila, it looked like this.

I had the brilliant idea to put glass into the doors.  Okay, not so brilliant.

While climbing the cabinet (do your monkey children do this??), one of my boys shattered the glass.  Hey, it was bound to happen and it. was. time.

Here’s the thing though.  I don’t actually hate the bathroom.  Is it awesome?  No.  Am I transported to the 90’s?  Yes.  But is it the worst ever?  Not so much.

The entire room is covered in marble, granted it’s not drool-worthy carrera, but  the work done was impeccable.  Those grout lines are a thing of beauty, let me tell you.  I don’t like this tub situation at all (it’s such a space hog!), but I dislike baths so it seems wasteful to tear out (dated) marble, to put in a new tub that I’ll never use.  And the tub is actually nice and in perfect condition.  The shower?  It’s absolutely fine.  Dated fixtures, that work amazing well – that hideous shower head is hard to hate on.  The water pressure is perfect.  And ‘cummon, let’s get real.  For me to do this bathroom the way I want to do it, would cost AT LEAST 25k, and that’s on the budget side, not moving any plumbing or walls.

I’m not a fan of going half-ass, so that ain’t going to happen.  It’s either all in or band-aid.  Band-aids are cheap, so let’s see how many years I can live happily with another one!!

What do you think?  Am I crazy!?!  Is this room at all salvageable?

The time has come…for something!