Bathroom Remodel Question

Discussion in 'Sun City General Discussions' started by sussea, Oct 12, 2017.

  1. sussea

    sussea Member

    We are getting ready to remodel our two bathrooms in our condo. They have original cabinets, shower and bathtub. If you had a choice, would you take out the bathtub and have 2 showers instead? I am not sure what I want to do. My husband wants the two showers. Thanks for your help.
     
  2. GCotten

    GCotten Member

    Depending on the appraiser and depending on the real estate agent a bathroom with a shower but no tub can be considered a 3/4 bathroom instead of a full bath. Sometimes it is a marketing and value issue. But the end result is determined by your own needs and desires. Doesn't hubby ever want to just lay back and soak in a tub?
     
  3. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Hey Gary Cotten, long time no read. Spot on bro, do what's right for your needs S, resale will only be pennies in the long run. Some folks love to soak in a tub, others will love the walk-in shower with no tub to crawl over.
     
  4. Cynthia

    Cynthia Well-Known Member

    Someone should design a retractable tub wall. Push a button and a short wall lifts on the side to make a shower a tub.*
     
  5. Ida Eisert

    Ida Eisert Guest

    My opinion: bathtub and a shower (you still have a shower with the tub)
     
  6. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Great point emily.
     
  7. GCotten

    GCotten Member

    Emily....Sure, the issue is multiplied and more of a resale $ issue outside of senior communities for the obvious reasons (kids, mobility etc). IMHO if a tub were going to be replaced with a shower only (in a senior community) the added process of making it a wheel chair accessible shower (zero entry step) would be a smart move. There may be additional costs for doing so but if need ever arises (we never know when that will occur) it's already a done deal. I would think that given identical properties for sale that this feature would win out.
     
  8. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    When remodeling, think/plan ahead.
     
  9. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    My newest contractor says a full bathroom remodel runs on average $15,000. Of course DIY's are way less.
     
  10. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Such a shame, nothing more than a game eh?
     
  11. Cynthia

    Cynthia Well-Known Member

    You won't get much more money in a resale for remodeling. Most houses prices are sold on square footage, a few items bring down the prices and a few improve it. I remodel for myself only. How it fits the way I live. But I really try not to change the outside of the house much. To me, that's historical. Especially in Mid Century Modern Sun City.

    Hey BP, speaking of that. Does the museum have any info on the names of the architects Dell Webb used for SC?
     
  12. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member



    I've been asked that question before about the architects and don't know who they were. Seemed to me there are some names on some of them in the closet in the backroom at the museum.

    As far as mid-century modern, i always struggle with how true that is. When we watch HGTV and see mid-century in CA or Palm Desert, they have a totally different look and feel than anything we have here.
     
  13. Cynthia

    Cynthia Well-Known Member

    My home has classic low-slope roof MCM. Plenty of low slopes in SC. There are MCM houses with floor to ceiling windows but that's just one style of it. Floor to ceiling glass may not have seemed as practice for the heat so they didn't use that but SC has: The long outdoor covered patios in the back. The cement block screens--no one else did that but MCM. The flat roofs. The old kitchens are totally MCM. Carports were started with MCM. Sun Dial is classic MCM. The stacked stone pillars. Arizona is also known for MCM too. Look at this photo I attached--I just pulled up a random home online--Nothing about this home is not MCM

    MCM.jpg
     
  14. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    So i went searching for sites with MCM homes and clearly there are some features prevalent. There's also some aspects missing. This site was cool.
     
  15. Cynthia

    Cynthia Well-Known Member

    I belong to several MCM discussion groups. The home above is clearly MCM. It's not a clear cut list of design rules that make a house MCM; there are variations. The link you posted was to google images not a site so I don't know which site you were on.
     
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  16. Cynthia

    Cynthia Well-Known Member

    I submitted the photo to one of the large MCM groups I am a member of and everyone one said yes definitely an MCM.

    With the exception of the new KOV houses, the entire SC by virtue of the time period is/was built as MCM (1945-early 70s). Some people have choosen to build Mediterranean, Tudor etc then or even now, but that's not what Del Webb did. He built the new style houses of that time period. Later we began to call them MCM.
     
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  17. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    No interest in arguing with someone who knows MCM, just saying in nothing i've read did the define/describe it that way. And of course in 1965 Meeker started the Mediterranean?Spanish design on some of the homes.

    Your comments sent me scurrying across the net and did find this info you may find interesting. It's about a woman Jane Karl who did design work for both John Long and Del Webb. This site is cool because many of her renderings look like something found in Sun City. Many of them are far more elaborate than what we see in Sun City...which was kind of my point. I always look at MCM as being more expensive looking. That said, there is clearly a similarity in her work. Who knows, maybe she did do some of the original Sun City drawings.
     
  18. Cynthia

    Cynthia Well-Known Member

    I tried to call his office to ask but someone else picked up the phone.
     
  19. BPearson

    BPearson Well-Known Member

    Let me do some digging, i might find an answer, seems there were several.
     
  20. Cynthia

    Cynthia Well-Known Member

    I looked at the Jane Karl site. Heck yeah her stuff looks like Sun City.Her son said she did architectural drawings for Del Webb. My house isn't there but I recognize other ones. I'm going to look further when I have a day off. Thanks for that one BP. I've been hoping to find something like this. I hope there's more.
     
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