Bathroom remodeling tips for lazy housekeepers?
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Comments (122)Ha, Stinky! My DH is..."slow to change". He does the exact same thing in the exact same order every morning and gets all out of sorts when he is forced to make accommodations. I've only been married 4 years, but I've learned it is much easier to change the environment than try to force change by direction. He just digs in his heels. Example: about 6 months ago I wanted to hire housekeeper. DH said it was unnecessary. I dropped the idea for a few months. I then started talking about how the dog got lonely during the day when we are at work and how nice it would be if someone would come keep her company. And now, we have a housekeeper who walks the dog..! I don't think I'm being sneaky or devious, but now we are both happy. Sometimes a different approach is needed. He may say the same things about me. But anyway, that's a long explanation of why simply telling DH that he is making a mess by wadding up the towels on the bars won't work. So having hooks may be my way around it. Back to topic, though, I was thinking of something like these from RH? Do they look like the towel would stay on well?...See Morewill a new kitchen make you a better housekeeper?
Comments (53)One of the bigger problems (among many) in my old kitchen was drying plastic bags hanging from two round plastic lingerie dryers on towel racks. It made for quite the mess. I now have so much counter space behind the sink that this process goes much better. I leave the bags propped open on a wooden "V"-shaped rack with just two levels and sometimes once they've dried a bit just on the counter. I can do that; there's space to. They dry fast and then they go away fast because there is a place to put them. The pots and pans are supposed to be going away more because they too now have a space. But as before, they get used almost as fast as they get cleaned, so they're starting to sit around more and more. There's more stovetop for them to do so painlessly now. The new DW definitely using less water than handwashing, at 0.7gal per load, means that I run the DW more frequently. This in turn makes it easier to put away because there is less inside. I used to hate emptying the DW and it would sit, sometimes until nearly everything just got used again. It's so easy to swivel and pivot everything away now, this happens and then guess what? There's a place to put the dirty dishes in the sink: into the DW. This is kind of like a revelation. I thought I was so inherently messy I could never have a clean sink. In actuality, I abhor emptying dishwashers but this new system permits throughput: very nice! There's also acreage above my DW (which at 90-degrees to the sink turns out to have been a stroke of brilliance. I was *really* nervous about this configuration but it turns out to be better than any I've ever had before). I use the acreage to ... air dry all that !#$^ plastic that came out of the DW! I never use the heated drying cycle which is no problem at all for ceramic and much problem for sure for the plastic. Now I have room to set the whole load, one-piece-high, across the top of the DW on the counter. It's dry very quickly this way and then ... I've actually been putting it away. Don't know how long this will last, I think I'm still in the novelty-honeymoon. But things seem promising to me. Acreage is key for me, as it turns out. I hadn't realized this before, but with it the contrast is striking....See MoreAt long last - my cottage/farmhouse master bathroom reveal
Comments (58)Haha. Funny that this thread resurfaces today. I am STILL dealing with the grout issue, though I think I am at the tail end. I have not done anything about the door because I was waiting to see what happened with the grout. Basically, original tile guy kept pushing us off and pushing us off til he started ignoring us altogether. Took me some time to find a few other tile guys to come out and have a look. The two tile guys who came out had differing opinions on what to do - one guy said use it, it's fine (which I didn't think it was because gritty bits of grout were running down the wall after every shower!). The other guy recommended painting this sealer on that the grout company sent -- it had to be hand applied -- two coats! -- with a freaking artists' paintbrush (only on the grout lines, not on the tile at all!) so I didn't want to do it myself and he would have had to charge a lot for his time. I decided to test out the sealer to see if it would even help in a few different spots -- some of the threads on the internet from fellow suffferers of this problem said they had spent the time to carefully paint on the sealer and it didn't fix the problem! So the testing took a while cause I kept getting sidetracked (plus I was dreading what I was going to find at the end of the testing so I was kind of procrastinating -- a lot.) But when I finally buckled down and focused on it, I discovered that while the sealer didn't seem to fix the problem, the areas that I had scrubbed really hard (while trying to see where the grout was "loose") weren't running down the wall anymore -- I guess I had gotten off the loose stuff that didn't cure right. So I tested a small area last week by scrubbing the crap out of the grout lines with a stiff grout brush and letting it dry. I rechecked it today - all good! So just this morning I embarked on the process of super-scrubbing every grout line to get off the loose surface stuff -- so far underneath everything seems ok though I'm expecting that I might find a few spots that need touching up as I go -- which will involve getting a tile guy back again - ugh. It's slow going -- all that hard scrubbing is kind of tiring so I can only do so much at a time - I did maybe a quarter of the shower this morning and now my arm is killing me, LOL! But it's better than tediously painting two coats of sealer with a tiny paintbrush!!! Anyhow, thanks for the compliments! I have not hung any towel hooks either, though I did replace the stand with one that has towel bars on the side -- I thought that would work at least for my sink (the one on the end closest to the stand) but since the towel bar is behind me, I didn't end up using it. We've just been folding the towel up on the counter. I'm such a slacker LOL!...See MorePlease help me choose a bathroom floor tile: marble? mosaic? (pics)
Comments (53)Dottie - I could not have done this without an educated designer - it's not just about the design choices although I would never have come up with design choices as my brain isn't hardwired in those kinds of visually imaginative ways. I can appreciate things but I don't know how to pull them together and I wouldn't have the ability to figure out where to even start in terms of the sea of vendors. I am good about researching appliances and functions but get lost in the sea of visual possibilities :-) And I can't even imagine dealing with codes and such since Los Angeles is code crazy - I wanted to move some floor electrical outlets up a bit from the floor as I found it difficult to reach them when I had some hip issues so I was thinking about for the future - I was told that if I move a plug, the whole thing has to be rewired back to the panel box. And the darn kitchen sink has to be approved by the UL LOL - who would think a kitchen sink could be dangerous....See Morespringroz
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