Our Parents’ Renovation: Before Bathroom

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This bathroom is about 20 years old, when our parents renovated their Edwardian triplex into a duplex. It was the one and only bathroom for our family until we moved to Saudi Arabia. Hence, the low counter (for three kids) and double sinks. The blue paint job is from 2004, when we finally moved back to Toronto and had everything repainted. Our contractor called our house the ‘clown house’ since most of the rooms were different colours: mine was grass green, Tomiko’s was hot pink, Karlos’ was aqua blue, our parents’ room was yellow, and the main living areas were coral-pink. Now that our parents are redoing the top floor, they want everything white white white.

The bathroom has windows on two walls and gets the morning sunshine, so our mom loves to fill it with plants in the winter. Our parents will replace the bathtub/shower by moving it towards the window, and then put custom shelving in the space between the bathtub/shower and the slanting wall. They will replace the side window that faces the house next door with frosted glass, so that the neighbours can’t look into the shower! The sink vanity will be replaced, also with two sinks, and the floor and bath and walls will be retiled with lovely marble. I can’t wait to see the final bathroom!