I have my bathroom back!!! ❤️ 🥳 A day early, it was supposed to be released to me today Friday but they got to that point a day early, bar some finishing touches. But the main thing is, I got to start using it again for toilet yesterday!! ✨ No more trips all through the day and in the middle of the night to the temporary facilities at the yard. YAY!!!😁 They told me I could use the shower too if I was careful not to get water on the door frames/the sink because they still needed to add in silicone to seal off moisture getting behind them, but I chose not to just to make sure nothing went awry for the long run. Today I pooped for the first time in 4 weeks in my own home 😆
I noticed in the evening there was a little leaking when I flushed the toilet. I reported it the first thing in the morning and they got to work on it right away. When I got home from grocery shopping and hunting down new shower curtain hooks, the leak had been fixed and the silicone added and the bathroom officially finished, unless I notice any problems. They still have to do something to the radiator to make sure it’s functioning properly but they said that once all the bathrooms are done, they’ll go through all the radiators in all the bathrooms and do whatever is needed to make them work as they should.
I’ve put most things back to where they belong now that all the plastic protections have been removed and I got my entry hallway back (the door to the bathroom is there, and they needed the coats and shoes spaces for their stuff so I had to empty it all) – and it’s great not having to go through a plastic zip door whenever I’m coming in or getting out of rest of my apartment 🙂
The new bathroom furniture is much better than the old one – now I finally have a sink cabinet and also the mirror cabinet above the sink is much better than the old one! For one thing, I can see myself down to the waist on it, instead of just barely my head and that by going on my toes (woes of a short person – everything is designed for average or tall height!). The shelves on the mirror cabinet are more suitable height now too – they’re tall enough to hold all my hair spray etc. bottles standing up! Even the sink itself is better – there much more room to put things like a tooth brush or soap than the old one had. I didn’t personally choose any of these – I chose from among the various default selections the housing co-op had chosen for everyone to choose from because I thought they were good enough! Everyone could have made customizations, and a number of my neighbors did, but they all cost extra of course but the renovation company is happy to make them. The renovation is already expensive enough so I myself went with from among default selections re: tiles and such, only ordering a tall laundry cabinet (otherwise there would not have been anything to store dirty laundry, detergent in etc. at all! Even though the bathroom originally came with such a cabinet which wasn’t going to be replaced – weird) and a bigger shelf thingy for shampoos and soaps etc. for the shower. So I selected those things, and made a custom addition order for the renovation company to acquire the products, transport and install them. Cost me 516 euros extra all in all in custom work, for which I’ll either use my tax return (all of it) or Mom gives me pre-inheritance, we’ll see.
Here’s some pics:
The pics are all taken from the door. The wooden door visible in one pic is the sauna door. The one with all the bottles is the mirror cabinet, with the doors open and mirroring the contents. I’m not a great photographer so these are a little more contrasty than in reality and the gray tiles are little bit more lighter than here but it’s about right. The other color options were two of pure white and various shades of beige/brown and I have unfortunate associations with those bathroom colors that makes me of think of hospitals… so gray tiles it is!
But: my bathroom is back! My bathroom is back! A pretty new bathroom! 💖 🥳 ✨