badass bungalow
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Between the asbestos shingles, jalousie widows, aluminum awning, dead tree, clothesline and rotting shed, I couldn't decide what was my favorite detail.Installing central air allowed me to remove the inwall A/C unit.Sooooooo......We ripped out the shed!We replaced the window into the bathroom and the door into the laundry room.We roughed in the plumbing for the shower and took out the electrical box for the abandoned pump.We laid the brick pavers and started placing the plants. I had a drain installed in the middle of the shower pad so the water would be moved away from the foundation of the house.I sewed the shower curtain out of outdoor fabric and clipped outdoor curtain rings to the top. For a curtain rod, I used a galvanized guy wire attatched to two turnbuckels screwed into the house.The finished space is a very private area in which to shower. I had the shower head special ordered at Home Depot, and found the chair at TJ Max
The least attractive part of the whole cottage was the back area next to the laundry room, which housed some type of shed that contained a nonfunctioning pump. The wooden cross was actually part of the clothesline, since the house had no dryer.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but it was truley ugly, and I had to reach deep within myself to come up with a solution. 
I have found that the biggest design challenges produce some of my favorite spaces, since I am forced to think outside the box.
Because the area had three walls, I tried to think of solutions that would work as a small outside room.
​Since the back wall was shared with the bathroom, I realized it would be fairly easy to set up a shower. Now when anyone comes home from the beach, this is a great way to clean off before tracking sand into the house. It can also work as a second shower in a house with only one bath.
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