lucycakes - here's the link to the Costco product. I read everything they had - the installation instructions, specs, etc, and it sounds like an excellent product. Costcos heat mat weedy - Thanks for the post. I read your posts and looked at your pictures and I was very impressed. I'm not sure if I ever posted comments or not; I think (hope) so, because you bath turned out beautifully. If mine turns out to be almost as good I'll be very happy.

Ah, the "I love old houses but hate the lack of storage" ordeal...we can relate. We have an old 1920's tudor. We've expanded into our basement for more living space. We have storage on the upper beams of our garage. We, luckily, have attic space on the second and third level that offers additional storage room. Closets are small. Our roof was a complete tear off, unfortunately. Fortunately, we were able to expand an existing closet when the roof was redone, as it was previously dormered out. We expanded it into a walk in closet, which was cheap enough to do as they were already removing the entire roof. Keep furniture to scale. Overloading rooms with more furniture to add storage space is only going to make your rooms look more cramped. For that reason, I do not have a storage caddy above my toilet, especially considering my very small full bath. I would inset a new cabinet before I added a caddy, but that's just my taste and I always think caddy's appear like an afterthought. Just my opinion. My best advice if you are thinking of knocking walls out, get advice from an architect before doing so. There's nothing worse than walking into an old home with character where you can tell it doesn't have the proper "flow" to it due to bad choices and people trying to make it into something it's not. The worst is seeing a contemporary style decorating in a period home, and we've seen plenty of those in our home searches. We go through our closets annually and send any clothing we haven't worn in the past year to goodwill. Same thing with items in the house. Periodic decluttering is absolutely necessary, and the donations each year are a nice tax write off. Spring cleaning is a nice time to declutter annually. Craigslist is a nice way to advertise items for "free" if you want to get rid of them curbside, fast. Anything I've posted has been claimed within a few hours.

Beautifully done! I love everything from that rich, navy paint color to the color of the sectional and the drapes! The woman who made them for you did an excellent job (I've been sewing for 52 years). Drapes are not hard to make (at least for me) but they are a lot of work! Enjoy!

@Pamela — If you look up my other posts, you’ll see I participated in a discussion about building a new home to age in place in (someone else started the discussion). Lots of people participated in that discussion and you’ll find lots of good ideas there. If you want a shower that will accommodate a wheelchair, the shower needs to be a minimum of 5 x 5 (if you want a seat in the shower, that requires additional space). Leave a 5’ circle (minimum) from the vanity to the wall and in front of the toilet so a wheelchair user can make a U-turn. We are putting glass doors on our roll in showers for the time being but made the showers big enough so that even if we take the doors off down the road, we won’t have to worry about water getting outside of the shower and causing a slip and fall hazard. (The tiles in our showers are smaller than the tiles in the rest of the bathroom — the extra grout lines make the floor less slippery .) If possible, design the shower so that you — or an aide— can turn it on and off without getting wet. The faucets should be low enough in the shower to reach while in a wheelchair. The shower should have an anti-scald feature. There is a lot of online info that tells you where to place grab bars. You have to plan for all the grab bars so that they are taken into account when the space is framed. I‘ve been told a bidet is a wonderful appliance — I’ve never had the pleasure of using one 😁—- but we had the electrical and plumbing put in so we can add them later if we care to. Make sure your entry into the bathroom is at least 36” wide. We are using pocket doors throughout most of the house. (Looks like your plan has this.) Check out the American Standard ADA sink that extends forward from the vanity. It allows for a 13” deep vanity (you can make it deeper but don’t have to). If you design the vanity like a desk, with a single sink in the middle with a 36” opening under the sink, you can tuck a vanity stool under the sink now and sit down while drying your hair — and later it can be used for wheelchair access. I really think your double sink is not the best design/use of space for an aging in place bathroom (IMHO). In our MBR ADA bathroom with roll in shower, we are having the vanity custom built. For the first floor ADA bathroom, we are using a pedestal sink. Make sure someone seated at the vanity can see into the mirror. We are not using a backsplash in the MBR bath so we can bring the mirror all the way down to the countertop. Good lighting. Ideally, you would leave at least a 36” empty space next to the toilet — that allows a wheelchair user to back into that space and slide over to the toilet. You probably won’t have room for this. We are putting in a new model Nutone exhaust fan/light that also has a UV light to kill germs near the toilet. Put outlets and light switches where they can be reached. i don‘t want our bathrooms to look like we’re living in a nursing home so I didn’t use any of the pre-fab wheelchair vanities and I found grab bars that look like really nice towel bars. I don’t plan to use conventional towel bars for bath towels — just hooks — my DH never folds a towel properly to put on a towel bar! I’m just using small towel rings near the sinks for hand towels. This site is wonderful for getting good ideas (and some bad ones too) but also do a google search — you’ll find some additional good info. So — after all that — I suggest you use a much smaller vanity (or pedestal sink) in your bathroom. .. perhaps half the size of your current vanity (you probably won’t like this idea but I think you need the extra room for your shower).. Then your toilet and a much deeper shower. I’ve seen storage cabinets online that fit between the wall studs that are 5’ or 6’ tall. Perhaps you could place one in the wall opposite the sink (if it is not an exterior wall that is insulated) to give you extra storage.