It's quite
unnerving when a long
familiar room becomes something very different.
We are currently remodeling our bathroom, and it's been stripped to, and beyond the very walls. Only the studs remain with various bits and pieces of drywall adhering, along with wires, pipes, and spiderwebs. (Spiderwebs inside a wall? Very optimistic bugs, or something I'm better off not knowing?) The floor is two different shades of concrete, one where the old bathtub has been removed, another where the linoleum has been taken up. The sink is gone, as is the medicine cabinet. Alone in the bathroom, the toilet occupies its accustomed corner.
It feels different… The ceiling is higher because it's been ripped out. The room is larger because so much formerly in it has been removed. And how often do you see the studs and systems in a living house? Only in a house under construction, or long abandoned do you see rooms like this. Every time I walk into it, I get this weird feeling; this is not my house.