Making it ours

I'm not someone who loves renovating an old house. The lines and architectural details of an old house. Love. The quirks, inconveniences, and constant maintenance/projects? Hate. Planning the design of a remodel? Love. Living in with the dust, chaos, and cost of remodeling? Hate. But an old house is what we have and so I try to focus on the things I do love. Like making it our own.

One of my favorite things about remodling is all the little choices you get to make that are personal to your own preferences and idiosyncrasies. Example? We both hate changing the toilet paper roll in the bathroom. It's ridiculous, lazy, and idiotic. But we both avoid this task. I'm ashamed to admit we've had moments where multiple empty rolls sat on top of the original empty roll that nobody wanted to change. That means we went through 3-4 new rolls that just sat on top. Embarrassing. How hard is it to change a TP roll? Super easy, right? Like I said, ridiculous, lazy and idiotic.

But when it came time to re-do the bathroom, I knew this was a problem we needed to fix. In the language of behavior change psychology: we needed a system that would build self-efficacy. Enter our new springless TP roll and the lidless garbage can that lives below. Avoiding changing the TP roll? A thing of the past.

Now if we could just come up with a good solution for keeping fresh rolls conveniently located near the toilet (stacking on the back of the toilet=not an option).