Our big splurge

I’ve been waiting for this moment ever since we spotted a super-decadent white tub in a bathroom showroom an awful lot of months ago. But as of this week we have a fully functioning bathroom. At 9 o’clock, as you enter the room, is the white-on-white vanity, at 10am the frameless glass walk-in shower, and at 1pm the magnificent tub, which is crying out for bubbles and a book. The floor-mounted taps are sleek brushed nickel, and are scarily contemporary, and to our surprise there actually is room to clean behind it, which was useful as I scooped up layers of dust today. It’s a feature, it’s a splurge and it looks just great.

Of course I’m now pining for accessories for the clutter that’s bound to come as soon as we move in, given that both tub and shower have nowhere to hide so much as a bar of soap. we probably need a storage thingymajig that stands behind the tub, and a shelf of some sort in the shower area.

Details. Not until after we move.

Talking of moving, extra boxes are filling up, not to mention the ones we never unpacked in our eight months in temporary digs. We more or less cleared the basement today, and eliminated the last mounds of clutter from the kitchen countertop, exposing a gleaming black-grey quartz with sparkles of sapphire blue.

In a symbolic gesture, I unpacked my first purchase, a countertop soda stream that is supposed to eliminate the need to keep racing down to the store for more fizzy water. Toronto tap water never tasted quite so good.

What idiot designed a gizmo (pictured below the space for the microwave) that’s just an inch too tall to fit under a regular kitchen countertop?