Let Me 'Splain

Normally, my husband is the one with all of the crazy ideas. In our relationship, Nathan is Lucy and I am Ricky. For sure.

He is constantly adding decades onto our renovation with these crazy ideas about how we should move an entire wall three inches or add rooftop decks and swimming pools. The running joke used to be:

Sure, we'll definitely do that. Right after you install the bathroom fan.*

But there was this one time-- and, honestly I didn't even remember it until the other day when Nate brought it up again--  when I was the one with the crazy idea. Let's put a bathroom upstairs. After all, it's just empty space floating above our living room. He nixed it immediately.

"No, it can't be done," he said.
"Why not?" I persisted.
"Because [X, Y, Z]," he said.
"But can't we just [this, that, the other]?" I asked.

He looked into it. I told him about wall-mounted, back-flow toilets. He started to see the vision. Three years later I am priming the walls that didn't exist before and he comes up to me and says, "You dreamed it up, Baby. And now you're painting it into the house."

Inside the bedroom

View of the loft from living room

Granted, this bathroom will contain the world's most extravagant shower and one more sink than I really wanted. My Lucy's always scheming something. But Nate really gave me the reigns with this one. We are constantly making decisions and compromises and the other day I joked that we dream up problems just so we can solve them.

Even with the before and today pictures, Nate questioned me about this comparison. He says he thinks the before looks better, simply because it is finished. But I told him that this blog is not about the before and afters. It's about the during.

After all, we've got some splainin' to do.

*Nate did eventually install that bathroom fan. Now I just replace it with whatever comes to mind first. "Sure, we'll definitely do that. Right after you... [put in a closet... patch the hole in the kitchen ceiling... hook the hot water up to the washing machine... etc.]"