Bathroom Revolution

Our Hollywood bathroom upstairs is big enough to park an Alfa Romeo. The size of the bathrooms (on both floors) comes as a side-effect of the house's origins. In order to avoid code enforcement on new construction, the builder and owner constructed the house as an "addition" to an old outhouse, whose cinderblock footprint matches the footprint of the bathrooms. Rather than move those cinderblock walls, the owner just super-sized the bathrooms.

The porcelain throne sits between two royal glass block walls in the center of the bathroom. The glass allows the occupant of the throne to survey the whole bathroom, and even into the hallway and down the stairs to the front door if necessary. Here is the throne room as we bought it:

However, as the French discovered to their pain, royalty must give way to the next generation. In order to make room for a changing table, one of these gorgeous block walls had to come down. Here's the storming of the Bastille:

After the tearing down of the old order, the room is ready for the new:

The vacancy left is then filled with some leftover furniture from my mother's continual home turnover:

And with the one final addition of a changing pad, the dais is ready to receive the new queen of the household:

Et voila: le trone de Gwendolyn! At least until she can claim the porcelain throne for her royal behind.

~emrys