Before & After: Moving a Cabinet Made Way for This L.A. Bathroom’s Striped Shower
Photo by Kacie Tomita
When writer Connie Wang and her husband put an offer in for their Atwater Village home, they called it “practice.” As a desirable enclave of Los Angeles filled with longstanding bungalows on tree-lined streets, they thought this neighborhood was out of their price range even if the home was an ideal fit. But afterward, in what Wang describes as a “series of happy but unexpected events,” the house became theirs. For the next five years, they settled in and made changes slowly, working around the eyesore that was their main-floor bathroom.
“I hate waste, and big projects scare me, so for years I tried to convince myself that the bathroom wasn’t that bad,” Wang says. “Maybe the rough brown tiles and gray grout were actually charming, even though they were impossible to clean? And maybe the off-center frosted glass lighting was quirky, and not just ugly?” But if she was really honest with herself, she hated almost everything about it.
