Yep, that’s a picture of a toilet. Well, the toilets were yet another unique thing about our house. All of them were lacking in the whole “toilet tank lid” category. Which is extremely odd. What would you want with a toilet tank lid? Maybe they all got broken? Or they have some alternative use I don’t know about and got highjacked by the people that cleaned the house out?

You also can’t buy just a tank lid at the store. Nor, can you find one at the Habitat for Humanity thrift shop. Tragic. So, we purchased some nice new American Standard toilets from Home Depot. Surely they use way less water than the dinosaur 30-year old toilets that were there, anyway.

The toilet in the half-bathroom on the main floor is extra special. We figured since this one is the “high traffic toilet”, we would finally get and put in one of those crazy toilets that can flush 15 golf balls (or whatever that claim is..). Yes, we have the golf ball toilet. And let me say, I definitely notice a difference between the “flushing action” in the other, basic (read: cheaper) American Standard toilet we installed upstairs. I’m pretty sure the flushmaster could suck a small animal down the toilet in a single flush.

When my mom had a fish tank back when I was a little one, and a dead fish would get flushed, I’d always kind of have this fear that the fish would somehow revive itself and swim back up to the toilet to freak me out. If only we had the flushmaster 9000 back then, I’d be sure that the fish was truly gone forever.. haha.

I’m sure more on the bathrooms’ cosmetic makeovers will be posted in the future.. For now, they have the crucial functions established. Ding!

Posted by Carrie on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Categories: blog, home improvement · 2 Comments »