Our house is a Cape Cod house, so the bathrooms on the second floor are small and have sloped ceilings. The master bedroom has an en suite bathroom, which in our area is an uncommon luxury. In fact, most houses in our area only have 1 bathroom in the house--usually on the second floor. So having a bathroom in the master bedroom, albeit small, is something we greatly appreciate. Although 1950's construction was built to last forever (or ~70 years in our case), things have gone wrong. For us, it was a leak in one of the pipes for this bathroom which we could not fix by going through the ceiling of the room below. Additionally, we had mildew and peeling/chipping paint on the popcorn ceiling from poor ventilation (fan vents are not required in our area if the bathroom has a window so we bought this house without bathroom fan vents). We didn't just renovate the master bathroom. We completely gutted it, changed where the fixtures were, and expanded it. See the graphic belo
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