I was standing in the doorway to our bedroom last week (7 months pregnant) and laughing. Not because anything funny happened. Just because two years ago this same room was…
You remember walking into a space and immediately wanting to leave? That happened to me the very first time I stood in the bathroom of my Chorlton flat. As soon…
It was last month that I found myself once again standing in the middle of a bathroom showroom, desperately fighting back laughter while listening to the guy working there tell…
The first sign that you’ve messed up is when your kids start yelling at each other through the bathroom door. That happened to me when my wife’s niece brought her…
When I first started planning to turn my small guest room into a functional space (after the initial excitement wore off) I quickly realized I had no idea how to…
It’s very humbling when you’re standing in a “half-bathroom” which is officially referred to as a “powder room,” yet has all the ambiance of a toilet closet. I’ve experienced this…
I began to understand how a place could look okay — even good — but somehow feel wrong. We’d done everything right. Torn up that awful, still-hard-to-believe-they-did–it bathroom carpet; painted…
I remember the exact moment I realized something was amiss. It was a month after we’d completed our renovation – an amazing amount of work – we ripped up that…
Okay. I think i made one of the smartest decisions of my life (well, at least for the last Three years) — and that was to try to fix-up a…
You remember that feeling when you’re waiting outside the bathroom and it’s as though someone is directing a symphony using all the water in the world? That’s pretty much my…