Bathrooms (Three)

Hubby and I recently bought our first home and we have this groovy tour you can take.

It’s my first house ever and it’s his first in over ten years. We’re thrilled with it. A big ranch with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Three!

It’s taking me some time to get used to the concept of having three bathrooms. I – me, myself and I – have three bathrooms. I can’t tell whether to be proud, or to hide my glee as misplaced, bordering on bizarre. Let’s take a tour instead!

Let us begin our tour with the main bathroom. It’s huge and 1950s pink. A pink tiled floor with pink tiled wainscoating topped by granny-style flowering roses wallpaper. It’s very, very pink. I’m coming to appreciate the tile for its inherent pink-ness but I can’t groove on the wallpaper. I’d like to steam it off and replace it with a cinnamon stripe at some point. In any event, this bathroom has a long, lovely (pink tiled) vanity and an over-sized bathtub as well. The first time I sunk down in that bathtub filled with lavender-scented bubbles I nearly growled with pleasure.

Then there is the master bedroom bathroom. It is tiny, compact, with yellow tile to chest height and matching yellow curtains. I even have yellow hand-towels from the old apartment so I’m all cha-ching in the matching department.

The third bathroom is what hubby calls “The Men’s Room.” He calls it this because it is off of his workshop in the basement and when we first moved in it looked suspiciously like a gas station bathroom, picked up and dropped into my new home, mostly because of the aluminum sink and faucet. Well, Hubby replaced the sink, the faucet, and the toilet seat, and now the room looks like a normal bathroom except for the fact that it is brown with brown and cream tiling and I’ve never known a woman to paint a bathoom brown in all my days, so I suppose he can keep calling it The Men’s Room after all.

The fact behind the fabulous is that Lansing has a soft, affordable housing market. Without children to worry about the school district over, we bought the best house in the best Lansing neighborhood we could afford, and got three bathrooms for our buck.

And that’s the amazing tale of the snakeladylibrarian’s three bathrooms.