Last year, Brady applied for a forgivable government loan to get our en suite redone. And they granted it!! We’ve waited a while, made our plans, and today was the day it officially began!!
If you’ve seen our place, you might know that our en suite is roughly the size of a postage stamp. It would be an ok size for Brady and I pre-para. The wheelchair made it super tight in there. But the commode chair is even bigger, and then the shower bench just sucks up ALL the floor space. Considering all the medical supplies and bathroom things we need to store in there now, its just SO much need and SO little space.
Our closet is much the same. Small. Pretty close to useless.
So we decided to combine them both into one long bathroom, and work out some type of closet system in our room. Its not perfect. It will take some adjusting. And our smallish bedroom will be smaller still.
But! It will work better!!! So we are VERY excited for this renovation!!!
We worked all weekend to get our bathroom and closet cleaned out, and tried to make sense of our things in a way that would at least make them usable, though not pretty, while the work was being done.
Today, our guy came. Jared. He owns OSC Accessibility, and he is truly a joy to be around and work with. He came first thing and got right into it. He worked fast and intentionally, with a podcast going in his ear, cleaning up every inch of anything he left behind. He did ALL the demolition today. ALL of it. The wall between the two rooms is gone. Lots of drywall is torn down and flooring is pulled up. And ALL the fixtures are gone. Amazing, hey?? In ONE day!
He’ll be back tomorrow. I can’t wait for this all to get moving along. I can tell after even one day that it might be a challenging adjustment over here. Not having a bathroom when you’re used to one will be challenging for both of us. Going into the main bathroom is fine, of course, but we do have that one kid that dives out of his room the moment he hears movement in the house, so, theres that. Plus nap time is going to be a bit of a challenge. Munchie Mix napped in the pantry today š The others will get the hang of it. And hey. If they don’t, they’ll go to bed earlier in the evening. No harm done! All in all, we are just SO unbelievably grateful for the chance to make this change to improve our situation! For Brady to be able to move around freely in the bathroom. To SHOWER without SO much struggle and effort. It will be new freedoms. I can’t wait!
Day one is in the books ā I couldn’t be happier with how it went. Thank you, God, for blessing us in this way. EASE!! What an enormous gift we’re being given!!!