If you decide to replace your bathroom light fixture, you’re going to end up repairing a jaggedy, more-than-a-little-frightening hole in the wall.
When you repair the wall, you’ll probably notice the caulking around the tile is a mess and needs to be immediately removed.
When you’re finished, you’ll ask yourself if perhaps it’s really best to spackle the sliver of space between the wall and the tile before recaulking.
Then you’ll want to inspect the bathroom mirror to make sure it’s in as good shape as you think it is.
When you look at the mirror you’ll realize that its chrome border is covered in errant paint and caulk splatters that will also need to be removed.
So you’ll yell to your spouse to please pass your trusty retractable razor blade.
When you’re finished removing every last bit of paint and caulk from the vintage bathroom mirror, you’ll need the vacuum to clean up your mess.
You’ll start vacuuming.
You might get carried away and vacuum every room in the house.
You may even end up steam mopping the floors as well!
When you’re done you’ll probably want to take a nap.
You’ll have to hang-up a makeshift curtain in the bedroom window to stop the new neighbors from getting more of a view than they’ve bargained for.
You’ll flop on the bed and groan into the pillow a few times.
You’ll probably decide the work will be more pleasant if you listen to an audiobook.
So, you’ll crowdsource a list of the very best audiobooks from friends and strangers on the internet, and you’ll find yourself distracted by the highly addictive app you’ve used to do so.
When you look at the pictures, you’ll get so excited by other people’s (maybe-but-probably-not) perfect bathrooms that you’ll want to choose a new bathroom paint color. You’ll rifle through your paint swatches and color cards.
When you’ve narrowed your choices to two, you’ll want to begin painting swatches straight away.
Then you’ll remember you need to prime the built-in metal hamper and medicine cabinet, not to mention the heat pipe, before you can start to paint those.
Which means you’ll need to find the metal primer that you positively know you already have.
You’ll finish painting your swatches and priming your metal and you’ll stand back to look at them.
Looking at the swatches and the cabinets will remind you that the toilet seat needs replacing.
So…
You’ll place an order for a brand-new pink toilet seat.
And chances are if you order a brand-new pink toilet seat,
you’re going to want to regrout the bathroom floor to go with it.
If you replace the bathroom light fixture, you’re going to end up regrouting the floor tile…
And that’s only the beginning.
If I had to guess, I’d say that the bathroom improvements we’ve tackled since moving into this new apartment are somewhere between 23 percent and 82 percent complete, which is to say, I really have no idea what else awaits me.