We just finished remodeling the bathroom of our 70 year old home. We replaced everything but the tub. All-in-all, we spent about $2300 (+ a lot of sweat) which included hiring a tile guy to replace the subfloor and lay tile over it.
One thing that struck me during the project was how it temporarily interrupted the heck out of our lives. We spent about 4 weeks working on it and pretty much neglected everything else in our life. The boys got to play a ton of video games and watch hours of TV while we toiled away for a few weekends and a several week nights. When we weren’t working, we were exhausted. We started going to bed later and later. I stopped walking in the morning. I stopped walking at work! I started reading the Internet more. The bathroom was slowly stealing my life.
I grew to despise this bathroom initiative of ours. I wished many times along the way that we had hired someone to do the entire thing.
Now, I kind of feel like a newborn trying to find my way back into a simple, peaceful, and chaos-free routine.
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