Last week, my bathroom bath/shower was tiled and new plumbing fixtures were installed. The plumber came one morning as I was getting ready for work. When I heard him say, from the bathroom, “you’ve got to see this”, followed by him coming out to show me a cell phone photo…well, I knew my old house just yielded yet another surprise: a shower fixture held in place with….duct tape.
Yes, that is duct tape (circa 1958) holding the old shower in place. No wonder it always wobbled. I should send this image to the duct tape people as a testimonial to how long this stuff holds up. It was still sticky!
Here is the new shower, set considerably higher I might add; my old shower was for midgets.
Here’s the very cool and curvy tub faucet…
And here’s my tub, scrubbed nice and clean and white; I didn’t have the tub re-glazed as it’s held up well. Plus I’ve heard re-glazing involves very stinky solvents, which would certainly give me a migraine.
This is the view from the hall. I just love the tile, which is porcelain from Italy. The small white tiles are glass.
Eric from Absolute Installation tore out my old green tile from 1958 and put up my new tile. Several bricks fell out of the wall during the process (good thing this is a double-wall house) and he mortared them up just fine. I asked him to place random inserts of the small square white tile, and I just love the way it turned out. Even smaller tiles in the same color frame the window and the 2 small corner shelves. Eric was very professional, things were always tidy after he worked, and Bearbear just loved him. I wholeheartedly recommend him; it’s hard to find people who do great, honest, artistic work AND whom you can trust to have in your home.