A Little Bathroom Humor

Have you ever had thatВ chore that, while you try to ignore it, just keeps nagging at you and getting under your skin?It hangs there waiting for you to address it.Poking at your shoulder sometimes as if to say «I’m waiting.»

Mine was my master bedroom shower.It’s the room we copied almost identically from a luxury hotel room where we stayed for a wedding in Florida a few years back.В В We took that room, the room with aВ gla*s enclosed shower with the chrome fixtures that sparkled like sunshine, the brown and white marble wall and brown tumbled floor tile and the raindrop shower head, and made it our own.It was the one place during our home renovationВ I could not wait to get finished so I could have my own oasis.

But now itВ was bugging the crap out of me.Because every time I took a shower, it was there.

The greenish blue stains that had over time absorbed into my beautiful tiles.I couldn’t quite figure out what they were.I googled «green and blue bathroom stains» many times.I got many different answers.Copper.Magnesium.Hard water.But one thing I did find out that really stunk was how to get rid of them.

Because the marble was so porous and unique, more than likely, the old trusty internet sites said, I could not get rid of them without using something called a «poultice» that I would lay over the tiles for a day or so that would absorb the stains from the marble.Whatever they were.And maybe, just maybe, the stains could be removed.But it would be time-consuming and costly.

The room was not even five years old and I didn’t want to take a chance at ruining my beautiful, not to mention costly, bathroom marble I had so painstakingly picked out.

So, I just left it.And it proceeded to get worse and bug the hell out of me.

Until I decided to take a leap of faith with one of my all time favorites: baking soda.

So after I showered one recent morning, while the floor was still wet, I decided to try pouring on some baking soda and leaving it there to see what would happen.I took maybe six or nine of the 2Г