House Bathroom Situation

We are about to embark on a major bathroom project (hopefully). We live in a Victorian Gambrel house that is 110 years old. We have made mostly minor changes (landscaping, small deck, molding, some recessed lighting). We did only 1 major change which was the basement being turned into a playroom/laundry room as soon as Rory was born and I realized we'd have double gender toys overtaking my living room. We have 1 large living room rather than a living room/family room so playroom renovation took precedence over replacing my 1960's kitchen and ugly bathrooms. I do not regret it. However, now it's time to do the bathrooms.

We have 2 full bathrooms. One of them is on the 2nd floor near all the bedrooms that we all share (linen closet, then my bedroom to the right of the bath in the 1st picture below). It is narrow and has the fireplace chimney going up through the middle (behind Kelly's back). The 5 of us squeezed into that room during the morning rush is a complete nightmare - Joe trying to do contacts, Rory pooping, Kelly trying to brush her teeth (she loves brushing teeth) and Shelagh and I doing hair...it's truely ridiculous.

The 2nd bath is mid-level between the kitchen and basement/playroom. It was added on to the original house, is not insulated, is ICE COLD from Fall through Winter and most of Spring, and the shower drain pipe is not connected and therefore is just sitting there unused. Even if it worked you couldn't shower in there - I'm not kidding - it's ICE COLD.

Here's the plan. Renovate the current bath so that we can 1) reorient it for better space usage, 2) get rid of the floor to ceiling tile and rotted moldings, 3) update the bound-to-fail-soon plumbing, and 4) replace the nasty runners that the glass doors use that do nothing but collect disgusting goopy slop. Simultaneously, build a new master bath in our pretty sizeable bedroom flush up against the current full bath (to the left of Kelly in the back left corner) and take advantage of existing plumbing being open. Next to the new bath, create an enclosed space for a shared closet as the new bath will go where 1 closet resides and the 2nd closet, across the room, will need to be removed to reorient the bedroom furniture (this is good since the closet doesn't even support the full depth of a hanger).

Eventually remove the downstairs shower all together when we very long term do the kitchen and surrounding area and hopefully replace with some sort of mudroom and 1/2 bath.

We are ready to start, but I have to get estimates; learn about tile, showers, fixtures, bathroom flooring, etc; and figure out what I want in both baths. Overwhelming.

Kids Bathroom:

• Definitely want a tub
• 1 sink only
• MUCH better toilet (we clog constantly)
• Better orientation around the chimney
• Pocket door to preserve space
• Storage - either a vanity with bottom cabinet and no shelving or a pedestal sink with some sort of very small closet/shelving area.
• Probably white tile and a single color or maybe some sort of 1/2 wall on the bottom and a single color on top.

Our Bathroom:

• Shower only (Joe wants glass walls)
• 2 sinks (This is a must have. Joe likes to trim beard, etc and the little hairs drive me nuts)
• Pocket door
• I like a large slate looking tile similar to a friends house we stayed at in Canada over several summer vacations
• If we can manage a heated floor since it's a small space that would be cool

Other:

• We will probably lose our linen closet in the hall for bath space but can replace it with another one in our bedroom to support all linens.
• We do not have a backup shower since the one downstairs is broken and we don't want to fix it since we will likely remove it. Therefore, it would be best to wait until Summer to do this project so we can shower at the pool. Or, we will proceed now and shower at the Y then we can - oh boy do I DREAD that.

Wish me luck!