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Finalist #1:

YBC Help!
Reasons I need to win contest
My bathroom is decorated in early ugly.
1. No electrical outlets
2. One light bulb in middle of ceiling
3. Measures 5'3" x 7'3" very small
4. No register or heat or air cond.
5. No ventilation fan
6. Caulking cracked around tub
7. Walls cracked in corner walls and around ceiling
8. Sink tilts back, water lies around
9. Faucets, have to wipe water each time sink is used
10. Floor warped slightly around commode (my pictures "are" worth a thousand words!)

My bathroom is more like a closet. A small closet. It gets very hot in summer when bathing, even in cool water, because no ventilation. Very cold in winter because of no heat register, hot in summer no vent or air cond. Floor tiles also bad. Laminate sink & tub about 50 yrs old. I'm a widow so this is a chance for me to get a shower & bath tub. I've heard good things about YBC Everett.

Finalist #2:

My upstairs bathroom is a throwback to the 1970's. The shower and toilet are harvest gold. The vanity top is gold marble and it is chipped. The vanity is white and peeling. The inside of the vanity is warped from leaks in the sink. The light fixture above the sink is mounted above a 3x4 mirror and encased in discolored plastic. The shower faucet leaks, so I periodically need to replace the internal washerless mechanism. There are divots in the moldings and door. The flooring is white and grey. To top off this ugly bathroom, the walls are unpainted drywall with holes and in need of repair.

Finalist #3:

The floors creak and the tub leaks and the commode tank and bowl do not match so the lid does not stay up. walls, floor, vanity, mirror and everything in between need an extreme intervention team.

Finalist #4:

This ugliest bathroom consists of a green asbestos tile floor. some walls are still intact however are mint green in color. the shower wall is a very distasteful top part of a canopy with silver duct tape trim. the floor is ready to fall thru as it is termite eaten in which when that happens the tub will also end up in the basement. the tub, toilet and sink are pepto bismol pink.

Finalist #5:

Have you seen my bathroom?! Only in your worst nightmare. It's functional and we could leave it at that! Let's see where to begin—after 16+ years of wear and tear, it's showing its age, just like I am! Floor leaks, rotting molding, mildew, lighting … oh yeah, and safety?! What's that … do your business at your own risk!! A closet that's half functional due to pulling a shoulder out of joint to reach in the back! A vanity whose doors are hanging on by a screw. Medicine cabinet above the toilet … how many drugs have gone into the mysterious beyond with one flush?! Really, this is an YBC/HGTV project waiting to happen! HELP!

Finalist #6:

The tub creaks, the faucet leaks, there's a terrible draft. Those are just three of the many symptoms our bathroom suffers from. The tub creaks because it is the original one that was in the home since we purchased it from the previous owners, 25 years ago. The faucet leaks, so for the last year we have to turn on and off the tub water through a wood panel behind the tub. The terrible draft is the air that comes up from the basement through the access panel behind the tub. Our tub has stains that have never come out. The doors on the cupboard don't close. You open the medicine cabinet and things fall off the shelf because they are uneven. The avocado green is unsightly. One half of the bathroom is wood panels, while the other is curling and ripped wallpaper. Our bathroom needs a facelift.

Finalist #7:

"It's not so bad," I tried to tell myself as I signed the "closing" papers, after all, it was my very own. My House! My Home! My UGLY bathroom! Every day I look around my bathroom and feel like I'm in the local YMCA's men's bathroom. My bathroom flooring will make you want to get the hose out and squeegee the water right down the drain. The flooring is accompanied with the ugliest blue tile that is falling off everywhere you look. And you can't avoid looking at it, because it goes over half-way up the wall. What kind of window treatment do you put on a "Waist High Window" anyway? No problem! We'll re-do it, I used to say, but with my tight budget, and the antiquated bathroom, a cute little "as seen on TV" make-over became "Pipe Dreams." Get it? Pipe Dreams! (See under my sink!)

Finalist #8:

I have lived in my home for 19 years and time has not been good to us. Our bathroom is literally falling apart and right now we don't have any extra money to pay for repairs. I am a single mother raising two children and would like to provide them with a clean safe home where they won't be embarrassed to invite friends over. Please help us YBC!

Finalist #9:

The floors are black, the tub is blue, the lower walls are pink. The upper walls are peeling and moldy with a hole in the wall where the vent should be. It has never been remodeled and is in dire need of a make-over. We can't stand to even go into it because it is SO ugly. We hope our guests don't ever have to use it because it embarrasses us! It's a scary horrible room and doesn't even have a doorknob because it traps people in it. So the dogs can walk in on you and people can peep through the hole where the doorknob should be. HELP US!

Finalist #10:

I know sometimes you must feel sad
You feel neglected and you look so bad!
Your wallpaper is peeling and the faucets are a mess,
When people come over you cause me great stress!
"what an ugly bathroom" they say as they turn up their nose.
You have holes in your floor and your cabinets won't close.
Your tub looks disgusting and is covered in stains,
I must confess that you are causing me great pains.
When I hear there's a contest to make you look better,
Entering is a must before your leaks make us wetter!
It saddens me greatly to see this in writing
But my bathroom's so ugly it is really quite frightening!
So, to Your Building Center I say this:
"Pick my bathroom, it's the ugliest there is!"

Finalist #11:

You should pick me because my bathroom is the ugliest bathroom out there. I only work a part-time job and I cannot afford to remodel myself right now, I came across this contest and figured why not try for it. To start with the carpet is not attached to the floor it just kinda lays there. The tub is very old and is held together with large amounts of caulking and duct tape. It has cracks in the shower wall that allows water to get in which could eventually make the wood go bad. The walls are a very ugly green color. The toilet is an old plastic toilet, which doesn't work that well. It is very embarrassing when people come over to visit because the rest of the house is nice and the bathroom is ugly. I also have a son and I do not feel safe even letting him bath without me there to keep an eye on him. It would be nice to have a new bathroom. So if you pick me I promise it will always stay nice and clean and I will keep up with maintenance it may need.

Finalist #12:

In the mid 70s a bedroom was converted to a handicapped bathroom with a shower and a wooden bench that was fastened to the walls with screws. We did take out the bench.

In 1985 my family moved in. We bathed the kids in the shower. As the kids got older we filled the bottom of the shower with water and they played in a few inches of water. We had made some improvements as much as we could over the years as money would allow us. The family grew the house needed to grow. We built bedrooms on, improved the kitchen, gutted living room, siding, making many improvements over the years. All of our improvements were done by us with lots of help from family so that we could cut costs of labor.

We had to stop making improvements because I got a new job with less pay, money was tight. Then 2 years ago my husband passed away. We are still trying to deal with this

Trying to help my daughter and grandson, they moved in. My grandson told me he wanted a tub to play in. Again money is tight with just my income to work with.

Finalist #13:

My bathroom is 30 years old and ugly. It's embarrassing to let my own family in to use it. The floor is coming apart in pieces, the fronts of the drawers in vanity are falling off, the tub is too small, there is no door where towels are kept. I like a room to give a warm feeling but the bathroom is too ugly to do this. I cannot afford to have someone do it over, so I'm appealing to YBC.

Finalist #14:

This is the bathroom in our first house. We currently have lived in it for two months, and are now more than ready to start the renovation.

Obvious issues:
BLUE toilet was mounted crooked causing a leak in the line, now rotting the floor.
Our dated water heater, or AKA space hog.
Hole in wall & floor from previous tin "Train Shower" Easy access hot/cold water pipes..
Vanity rotting to nothing from hard water corrosion damage, thus causing a leak.
And a random window overlooking nothing interesting.
Miscolored, mismatching paneling. Birch and Walnut finishes.

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