I’d kill (don’t know what or who) for one of those showers with an angled entry and no door. What a treat it would be not to have to squeegee a shower door.
PS: If a typical citizen of a typical third world country saw this post while sitting in his mud shack, and assuming he could read, he’d be shaking his head.
I’d love to have a bathtub large enough to really soak in. We have room to install one, but I don’t know that we’ll stay in this condo long enough to justify that.
Since I’m (slowly) doing a pretty thorough remodel job on the house, I’m putting in most of the features I want…big shower, bathtub big enough to have my knees and shoulders wet at the same time, deep sink, powerful garbage disposal, double oven, pool table, wet bar, 60" TV, hardwood floors, hot tub…
Things I’d love to do but won’t:
in ground pool - I just can’t justify the expense for the few times I’ll really use it. Most of the other stuff I’ll get daily enjoyment from, and the expensive parts will mostly add value to the house. The pool tends to return about 50% in equity, according to some real estate friends of mine.
balcony - I don’t think my home owners association would allow it. And the balcony would want to be in the back/side of the house, overlooking the lake. But my master bedroom is in the front, overlooking the driveway. The master bath has a window off the side, so I wouldn’t want to wrap around from the front.
-D/a
No need to kill. Just install a shower curtain. Wash it with the regular laundry about once every two months and replace every two years.
There. I saved you lots of squeegee time.
You will have to invest in a handyman to put up a rail for you, though. That might set you back a hundred dollars. A really nice shower curtain (and there are there for every taste!) can be bought for between 10 and 50 dollars.
Washer/Dryer hookups. My apartment complex does have a laundry building, but I miss being able to do it whenever I want. Plus, I have to resist the urge to sanitize everything in there.
I live in an apartment, for now. I probably won’t be able to move out for another year. The thought of this is depressing as hell, but such is life. What feature do I wish it had, you ask. I’ll tell ya - walls thick enough so that I wouldn’t have to endure my upstairs neighbors having sex at all hours of the morning and night. She was a screamer, by the way. Thick enough so I wouldn’t have to hear him say, “OH MY GOD WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?!?” as they climaxed and the ceiling sounded like it was coming down right over me and my bed. They have since moved out. My new neighbors are easier to live with - but their dog has an itchy skin problem…I can hear him scratching. …“thump thump thump …” you get the picture. Also, I like to cook…no I LOVE to cook. My kitchen is small enough that when someone else enters it (even just one other person) I can’t breath and I immediately feel like choking them. I could go on and on with my list…wish me luck in finding a nicer and more pleasant location to live soon.
I lived in a lovely older building, built in the late 20s/early 30s - lovely thick walls. The exterior walls were 24 inches deep, brick faced if not entirely brick, interior walls were also plastered brick and thick enough to not hear the neighbors.
I could have done without the pink and black bathroom tile though. Tiny kitchen, but at the time I really wasn’t cooking much, and you got into the bathroom through a walk in closet, and it had an actual coat closet in the entry hall. Only lack in the building was no laundry facilities at all, no air conditioning and the lack of lots of electrical outlets. For a studio it was very roomie. I consider it one of my favorite apartments ever - and I rented a garage space for $15 a month! Quiet neighborhood [Lilac Ave at Mt Hope in Rochester NY] with lots of huge trees. sigh I miss that place.