image of the elements of a perfect Swedish Cottage Bathroom

The perfect Swedish Cottage Bathroom

Since we moved in 4 years ago, redoing the bathroom on the main level has been one of our priorities. Since we moved in 4 years ago, it’s actually been our only bathroom, as the upstairs one had so many issues, we simply bolted the doors shut. Sharing a small bathroom between 4 people has honestly been just fine, I don’t really love to clean bathrooms anyway, so having one small space to care for was a-ok with me. But the status of the bathroom itself was less than ideal. Here’s a few reasons why we’re turning our grungy old potty into the perfect Swedish Cottage bathroom.

Why we’re remodeling our bathroom

I’m not sure I need to elaborate too much after show you the above photos, ha! But obviously you can see that everything in our existing bathroom was OLD. The tub and sink were a very lovely shade of institutional pink and the plastic shower surround a very putrid yellow. The plywood vanity was housing a healthy mold colony. The linoleum floors had been leaking for a very long time, creating a lovely bubble in the subfloor. The toilet was rusted and corroded before we got to it, and then my boys have done a number on it over the last few years.

Before we redid our roof last summer, there was a skylight in this room that had been leaking for who knows how long. Once we removed the drywall, there was a fair bit of mold and rot. The light fixtures were old, the medicine cabinet…OLD. And, the cherry on top: there was a nasty old Thermadore heater in the wall. Needless to say, this bathroom was a gut job from floor to ceiling.

I will say that learning to live with this bathroom over the last 4 years has been a very good exercise in contentment. Was it pretty? NO. Was it nice? Definitely NO. Was it usable? YES. Could we go to the bathroom and get ourselves clean? YES. It has served us as best it could since we’ve lived here, and for that, I truly am grateful. Well done, good and faithful bathroom, you earned this facelift!