The hallway that was also a bathroom doorway, or how I learned to stop showering at my aunt's house

I mean, who looks at a floor plan and thinks, you know what this house needs, a bathroom where the door hits the shower every single time? My aunt in Akron has lived in this ranch for 15 years and she's just used to it, but I stayed there for 4 days last month to help with some plumbing and I nearly lost my mind. The sink is also in a weird nook that's too shallow, so the mirror is 2 feet from your face and you can't lean over without banging your forehead. I fixed her leaky faucet in about 20 minutes but the layout itself is unfixable without knocking down a wall. She just shrugged and said it was a foreclosure special, so the builder probably cut every corner they could. Has anyone else seen a house where the bathroom layout just makes you question every decision the architect ever made?

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evaperez20d ago

I mean, is it really the end of the world that the door hits the shower? You said you fixed her faucet in 20 minutes, so you clearly know your way around a bathroom. Seems like you just got annoyed after four days of standing in a weird mirror spot. Lots of old houses have quirks like that, and people just live with them. The foreclosure special part tells me it's a cheap build, but that's not the same as the architect being crazy. Maybe the real problem is you were there to work, not to relax, and that made every little thing feel worse.