Sometimes I get very wet in my special places...

[c9]

Home ownership is fun!

No really. Except our shower is leaking. After every shower there's a puddle on the floor, and I thought it was just the substandard IKEA* shower curtain, but it turns out there's a real live leak. Somewhere in the wall between user input and water output. The drywall is spongy and wet, and the water's coming out a spot that is not designed to output water.

We had always planned to rip out the bathroom and make a better one. Looks like it's happening sooner than we thought. My parents did this walk-in shower thing at their place in Ottawa that we liked, so we're considering it for here. The diagram is not to scale or anything -- think regular tub length but double width.

Google SketchUp, by the way, is very cool. I made this in about three minutes:



I don't know who that woman is. Probably a local student. She came with the software. She will not be allowed to use the shower.

If you were buying a condo, would an unusual bathroom shower scare you off?


* Yes I just said that.

Comments

[sassy-red-head.livejournal.com]

An unusual shower would probably increase resale value as long as it's done well. It seems that your model is into glass block, which is terribly dates as a late-80's early 90's shower partition...which scares me.

[c9.livejournal.com]

There's no light above the shower, though I suppose we could change that at the same time. What would you use for that partition instead?

[sassy-red-head.livejournal.com]

You can get a couple tempered class sheets, frosted for privacy or even some resin sheets with embedded with natural materials for texture and interest.

There are many options.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I'd have to seek out an example to see if I'd like it. One nice thing about blocks is the staircase effect we can build to let in more light. Not sure how easy it is to work with those sheets.

[sassy-red-head.livejournal.com]

You can go to showrooms for bathroom fixtures which usually highlight things like this in their displays for an idea or two. Glass block is easy for the do-it-yourself method though.

[c9.livejournal.com]

One thing we're considering is having my dad come down and run the show, with me as his grunt. If we use the glass blocks, it'll be like he's getting to do the same project he did in Ottawa, but he can fix his mistakes. :)

[sassy-red-head.livejournal.com]

Dads are good for that. You pretend you need to learn how to do something and then they do it while you watch and pass tools.