One Bathroom, Nine People, OH MY!

I know, I know, this is totally a “first world” problem, and a modern one at that.  I, at times, feel a little silly complaining about this, and every time I do to someone over the age of seventy I usually get a story about how they grew up or raised their 16 children with only one bathroom.  I don’t mind the reminder at all, in fact it makes me thankful that I don’t have to raise my 16 children with one bathroom, and it also assures me that we can get through three months of sharing one bathroom.

Really though, who builds a 4800 square foot house, and only puts in one full bathroom?  Maybe the same kind of people who don’t put a lock on the master bedroom doors, or fail to build a hallway to the back bedroom.  Anyway….

Our new hallway not only goes to the back bedroom, but it also make a turn and goes to a humongous laundry room.

(I would like to insert a “before” picture here, but for some reason I didn’t take one)

Since it is next to the main bathroom and already plumed for a washer and dryer we decided to make it into a second bathroom for the kids and a little laundry room.

One of the first things to do, once the hole was cut and a hallway made, was to wall off the door that leads into the master bathroom.

Here is the bathroom all framed, there is room for a bathtub and shower, and a walled off area for the toilet, on the opposite wall, there will be a two sink vanity with linen cabinets.

The laundry room framed in at the back end of the bathroom area. I am so excited about this space, while not huge, it is a good size and I have never before had a dedicated laundry room.

Everything framed and ready for mud.

This is the view from my laundry room window, so beautiful, I don’t think I will mind doing laundry as much when I have this to look at.