Bathrooms blinds - occasional solution ideas?
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Comments (17)What I would do is remove the drawer & door. Then cut the rail away from the stiles on both sides. On the left side, pocket screw & glue a vertical piece of wood to the left hand stile (scrape paint for the glue to bond) to increase the width of the stile, wide enough to allow a new (narrower & taller) replacement door to swing open. You will lose a drawer and the opening will be smaller but you'll still have better access to that blind corner cabinet. You could opt to keep the drawer in which case you'd not cut away the rail and use two vertical attachments to the stile for a more narrow replacement door & drawer. Finding an exact match for the door will be tough. If you know the cabinet brand, check to see if you can get a new door in the dimensions that you need for the altered cab. Or maybe you can have a cabinet shop build one. Otherwise, you could just go with a raised panel door for a close but not exact match. Paint all the new stuff to match. Another option might be to use a shutter for the replacement door...perhaps one of those old style shutters that had fabric inserts. Or just a fabric skirt to cover the opening...See MoreGreat Household Products /Solutions to share
Comments (164)What a fun thread! All this talk of cleaning toilets brings me to contribute my favorite toilet cleaning tool: a toilet mop. DH first used these in college when he cleaned the 3rd floor dorm bathrooms as his work-study job. (The guys loved him, they had the cleanest bathrooms in the whole dorm!) He begged me to find a toilet mop when we were fist married, but I only found the bristle styles in stores. He said the mop style worked so much better. A few years later I heard about toilet mops in Don Aslett's cleaning books, but, again, I could never find one locally. Then I was swayed by Flylady hype and ordered "rubba swishas," and sadly, hated them for their intended purpose. After waiting for the scrubba to die, grumbling each time I used it, I finally broke down and looked for toilet mops on Amazon, and came across the Fuller Brush model. It works great, and I really like the flexible plastic cover that can be used to squeeze out the excess water after using it. I plan to put a command hook on the side of the tank and hang the mop by the hole in the handle. (I also tried a mop with a nylon type fluff head and didn't like it nearly as much as the Fuller Brush one.) Fuller Brush Toilet Swab Now I see Amazon has a Don Aslett model, but I've not tried them....See MoreLowest Maintenance Bathroom Ideas?
Comments (37)Fans won't solve the problems I had because the problems were not mold related. It was grout wearing away over time leaving cavities with missing grout and getting discolored with soaps and water. No matter what choices you make, a bathroom is a heavy-use space, and you're going to have periodic maintenance. Impossible to avoid. I'm interested in how to avoid week-to-week work in cleaning. Yes, wall hung toilets are made to be repaired through the access panel. This works, as the whole flushing mechanism can be removed through the access panel, once removed, lime deposits can be cleaned off, any o-rings replaced etc. Problem is, toilets include moving parts and water -- things that like to break, and your toilet may or may not break in a way that would necessitate opening up the wall. I think a smart person who installs this type of toilet would do two things: - Put a wall of tile behind it ... really, you know you're going to need to clean that thing ... who in the world chose to put drywall behind it in the above picture? - Buy /store an extra box of tile as "insurance" against a future repair the requires destroying part of that tile. And if you REALLY want to be safe with a wall-mounted toilet, take one more step: - Position it so that the wall behind it is a closet and place a removable panel in that closet ... this would allow you easy access to your toilet pipes simply by removing items from the closet....See Moreneed help with color ideas for outdated bathroom
Comments (17)I'm always a "path of least resistance" (and time and cost) gal. Super clean or clear out and replace grout. Put in new faucet. We used something like this in our similar vintage bathroom.New window treatments in whatever direction you want to go. I'd do lined bamboo or some type of woven thing. New rugs and towels in an accent color or two. Keep the shower curtain closed. Boom, new bathroom. Only paint if you really want a huge change. Pick up a neutral light tan color from the botanical print. The only thing permanent and non neutral now about your bathroom is the tub and sink, and you can cover up the tub with the shower curtain. It's your towels and rug, curtain etc. that are making it overwhelmingly green. If you hate your counter and sink, by all means replace if you have the money. That is super easy, my dad just did it in his bathroom. I'm cheap so I'd try some of the other things FIRST. You can always do the sink later. If you replace the counter, do it in white. Otherwise then your tub and toilet will be the weird outliers and you'll be wanting to replace them! Later on you could paint the cabinet any color you like, super easy. Much easier than getting a brand new one....See Moreemmarene9
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