What better way to start a Monday (and April!) than with a bathroom tour. I have had requests to show more pictures of our apartment, so I figured we'd start with the bathroom. They say a house sells based on its bathroom and kitchen, and I think they are so right...whoever "they" are. We bought our house in Virginia (yes, we own a whole house in Virginia!) because the bathroom and the kitchen had just been redone. (Well, that was my interest in the house, along with price and location.) The bathroom had trendy new fixtures, and the kitchen shone white with clean new appliances...who could turn that down?! Our bathroom here is far less impressive. We live in an older boutique building, which I love by the way. I can't stand shiny new 20 story tall apartment buildings that come with fancy amenities. I'd rather trudge up 3 flights of carpeted stairs in a building with character and the smell of history. Yes, that would be our building. Only about 6 months before we ...