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The bathroom remodeling has begun.

The original bathroom had lovely salmon floor tiles. The walls were covered to a height of 48 inches with cute white 4×4 tiles with delicate little blue and pink flowers. A built-in Medicine cabinet with fluorescent tube lights helped to illuminate the brilliant sunflower-yellow sink and tiny white toilet. The cabinet on which the sink set was shiny white with small applied filigree baroque carvings enameled with gold paint. The handles were little lacy brass pulls. Above the tile, elegant white wall paper with blue and white pinstripes and little blue and pink flowers graced the walls. A graceful lime green vine connected the flowers bunching them into little bouquets of sheer delight which somehow seemed to complement the colonial blue painted woodwork.

All of this wonderment and charm of the previous owner was jammed into a small 3 feet by 9 feet space of a rustic and rugged log lodge setting. Lovely.

To keep myself from vomiting something had to be done quickly even if it was only a temporary fix. The images here show only the temporary fix.

The temporary fix was mostly cosmetic. Get rid of the wall paper, wall tiles, sink and so on. This works for the time being.

Another and more daunting task however, is at hand. The shower.

At some point in the past a small portal had been cut through the logs at one end of the bathroom creating a narrow doorway only 18 inches wide. The doorway lead to a small space with a shower stall.

Let me explain the space. The shower stall, a small putty-colored 1970’s fiberglass unit was wedged into what had been a bathroom when the veranda tavern was in full swing (see the history of Bearfort Lodge for details). The tavern’s bathroom, long since been stripped of the urinal, toilet and sink, was a 6′ x 6′ space that was divided in half with press board paneling. The half nearest the narrow door was fitted with the shower stall serving the existing bathroom while the remaining half served as a closet/storage area for the veranda.

Heat for the shower area was supplied by a small electric wall heater and a bare light bulb illuminated the space.

The task at hand is to rip out the existing shower, tear down the press board paneling dividers and reclaim the entire space and make way for a very unique and rustic shower area befitting for a log lodge.

The plans? In the upcoming posts on this series I will be sharing with you the conceptual sketches, a scale model of the entire bathroom and shower space as well as the process of the transformation.

This will most certainly be an exciting venture. Stay tuned.