Let's Play "Help Remodel the Bathroom!"

The excellent Dan didn’t come today, so the living room still is unfinished. We put away a little more stuff (this is happening in such small increments that it hardly seems like progress), and Ed painted the oil tank (sort of a cranberry red, if you are curious, but it didn't come out shiny, as I'd expected it to be). I did, however, have an inspiration for the bathroom. Our tub has lost its shiny finish on the inside, it isn't plumbed for a shower, and there is a window in the middle of the wall by the tub, making it unsafe to spray that wall daily with a shower, even if we had one. What we would like to do, ideally, is take out the window and put in those glass blocks where the window was, re-plumb for a shower, and take out the old tub and put in a new fiberglass walled tub (the tile is old and all the grout and caulk need to be re-done, and I’m kind of tired of scrubbing grout). However, our house fixing money is flying out of the checkbook faster than we had anticipated (we had not reckoned on new oil tanks and about a million other “little” things when we worked out our original numbers for fixing the house!), and we are now putting a greater emphasis on affordable fixes. Anyway, my inspiration is that we could use a tub-to-shower adapter and shower adapter and shower curtain that rings the entire tub, a product which seems to be made for old fashioned claw foot tubs, to turn our tub into a shower and protect the window from water. Also, Lowes sells kits to refinish tubs, so I thought I might try that. The only problem I see with this is that the shower curtain might make things seem a little tight in the shower – clammy shower curtains that seem to want to stick to one’s wet body while one is showering are very unpleasant. Any useful suggestions (or even not-so-useful ones) will be greatly appreciated!