New Mantra: Fake it till you make it

Soooo, for those of you who have visited our house, you might recall the noticeable absence of a working shower. When we first moved in, we were a bit nervous about that, but were willing to keep an open mind to the romanticism of being forced to take luxurious baths instead. After 4 weeks, what we have learned that baths are no luxury when it's 6:30am on a Monday, you've slept through your alarm, the dog needs a walk, and you have meetings starting at 8am. And, my neck muscles have grown infinitely because constantly lifting the weight of my wet hair from a horizontal position in said bathtub has caused me to look as though I'm a football player on steroids. This bath situation had to be rectified.

The problem is that we're not ready to put in a shower. The vision is to install a new bathtub oppositive of where the current one is, and then knock out the current bathtub, along with the closet behind it, and create a big, happy, bathtub-free walk-in shower. Despite actually having the new bathtub, we still need to do the plumbing for it. Ergo, old bathtub can't be removed yet, ergo, we can't put in the dream shower. What's a couple to do?

The answer lies in a $44 fixtures kit, a $56 plastic shower enclosure, and some elbow grease (which apparently includes hammering, torching, taping, and cursing) to create a make-do shower situation. Sidenote: I do appreciate the Home Depot for having these options available, but it really is criminal for them to charge $56 on the crappy plastic shower enclosure. I hope their shareholders are happy, because I as a consumer am slightly gobsmacked.



This is clearly not the ideal showering experience, but it'll do for now. As ladies have been rumored to say for centuries, sometimes it just makes sense to fake it.