Bathroom Renovation Completed!!!!! Some ADA helpful ideas.

20 years ago

After 3 months & 3 days, our only bathroom is finally completed.

We have a Spanish Revival house that was built in 1929. My husband has MS and uses a wheelchair so we have had to make special retros in the house for his needs. Most important was the bathroom. While we originally wanted to stay true to the 1929/30's architecture (subway tiles, hexagonal flooring, etc...), we realized that it would impractical - trying to keep all the grout lines clean with a wheelchair would be next to impossible.

We also opted to forego a bathtub & went with a barrier-free shower. With a slight slope in the shower floor towards the shower drain there has been no need to have a 2nd drain outside the shower or use a curtain.

Instead, we chose to do a cross between modern & Spanish. The tiles are porcelain but in a texture that mimics limestone - old world feel. We chose warm/brown/gold tones to bring some of the Spanish/Mexican tile feel. Our drawers were custom made from knotty alderwood & stained with Bombay Mahogany.

The following link is progress in photos.

Here is a link that might be useful: Bathroom Renovation

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tntwalter
20 years ago
I bet you just love it.
Enjoy.
Trish [hoping her bath will be finished in a couple weeks]
Christinaref
20 years ago
It looks great! I really like the tiles and coloring of the room.
Christina--whose bathroom reno is on its 6 mo. mark---hoping only a few more weeks to go
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I will definitely post pictures when we are done. We don't have a start date just yet because DH is going to do the demo and he has been crazy busy at work right now. Soon, though(I hope!) I agree with you on the painted walls vs tile walls; I just don't think I'll like tiled walls. maybe because I've lived with the tiled walls for 15 years and I'm sick of it, who knows. Plus, more tiles = more money, so it made that decision easy for me to go with no tiles on the wall ;) I am a little concerned with the lack of storage with a pedestal sink, but I am hoping it makes the bathroom feel a little more open. We are using the Kohler Memoirs sink. I ordered a recessed mirror/cabinet from Restoration Hardware so that will give us a little storage anyway. I am going to ask the congtractor if he can build a little recessed niche or cabinet of some kind in the wall opposite the sink/toilet in hopes of getting a little more storage that way. We will see what we have to work with when we take the walls down. If all else fails, the hairdryer and straightening iron will have to be relocated to the upstairs bathroom, that has a vanity!
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Hi Azada and congratulations on the new bath! I love solid surfaces, so congratulations on your Swanstone. My shower is a different brand and is so easy to keep clean, you are going to love it! Also, good for you for going laminate. I did laminate in my kitchen and on the library cabinet and have a walnut top in my bathroom. I cringe every time someone pulls out a stone that they hate and replace it with a different stone or quartz. The whole stone tops movement was justified because “it will last forever!” Well, not if you have to keep up with the latest styles. Discarding stone that took thousands of years to form and was shipped from halfway around the world into a landfill seems criminal to me. So, after I got that lecture off my chest….have you checked out the Formica and Wilsonart web sites? In my experience, the big box stores never have all of the patterns that are offered. You can order samples online, too. At least one of the two companies has a sub group of stone looks that are printed so that there is no repeat of the pattern for the entire 8 or 12 foot length. You can get profile edges, as well. When we were doing the library ten years ago, I was lucky to find a piece of the 8 foot length on Craigslist for half of its list price. I ordered the matching edge from a local supplier and my carpenter made a top that looks like stone. With laminates, you can change out your countertops every few years, if you like, for the price of stone. Back to your project, you have nice, warm colors in your floor. Just looking at the paint samples, I like the top one best. I cannot read the color names, even after enlarging your photo, so I don’t know which is Navaho White. You do need to choose your countertop first, so hold off on the paint a bit. But once you order the counter, be sure to tape the paint samples you are considering up on the Swanstone above the tub so that you can choose something that looks good with the Swanstone, too. But counter comes first. Paint colors are infinite. Counters that go with your floor and Swanstone are not!
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binsb
Original Author
20 years ago
Trish - hope your bathroom is almost done! What are you having done?

Christina - Thanks! We really like the colors, too. WOW. What kind of renovation are you doing in your bathroom?
terezosa / terriks
19 years ago
I love your light fixtures (single and double). I saw the same fixtures in a spec house and now MUST have them!
msazadi
19 years ago
binsb, Thank you for confirming my decision to go with that barrier free shower. Since we have one other full bath on the 2nd floor, our renovation is for our future needs.

I love the tile design and colors.
booboomoomoo
19 years ago
Stunning! Love the floor tile, I love the mix of small and larger times. great!
Boo
binsb
Original Author
19 years ago
MsAzadi - I'm glad you're happy with the decision to go with a barrier free shower.

Boo - It was my husband's idea to mix up the tile sizes. We love the tiling, too!
binsb
Original Author
19 years ago
I'm adding some info to this thread for people who wanted more info on barrier-free showers similar to what we did.

Bathroom size - 7' x 10'
Shower size - 4' x 4'
Opening to shower - 30"

2 horizontal safety grab bars in shower
2 horizontal safety grab bars by toilet

We added a 4' x 12' load-bearing beam in the ceiling in the unfortunate possibility that DH would need a Hoyer lift in the bathroom.

The tiles on the main floor are commercial-grade strength to take the heft of DH's 275 lb wheelchair.

Please let me know if you have any questions!
colo_lady
19 years ago
Every little detail is amazing. You did a marvelous job on that bath - I had been watching the progress over the months. Very cool result!
KellyFG
19 years ago
Wow!!! That is beautiful!!! I love the niche-I think you did a wonderful job staying true the style of your home while making it practical!
dcoats
19 years ago
Love your bathroom. What's the name of your tile? What about your wall color?
We're going with a barrier free shower also.
binsb
Original Author
19 years ago
Sorry I just checked back today, dcoats!

The tile was a combination of a Shaw tile (main floor larger tiles) and DalTile Pietre Vecchi - golden - for the shower floor and smaller tile pieces.

Wall colors: Behr - Kansas Grain and ceiling was Riviera Sand.
mahatmacat1
19 years ago
It's beautiful, beautiful--a question, though--the entrance to the shower is only 30"?? ADA-wise, that's way too narrow, isn't it? I thought for a wheelchair access it needed to be 36"...
riverview111
19 years ago
Beautiful bathroom. We're doing a lot of universal design in our home and are working on designing a roll-in shower. I'm relieved to hear that 4 x 4 is adequate. How far past the opening of the shower does your waterproofing extend into the bathroom (under the tile)? Also, it appears that you do not even have a slight ridge in the floor at the shower opening. I presume this is because the entire floor slopes toward the drain. Is your slope 1/4 inch/foot?
binsb
Original Author
19 years ago
FlyLeft - thanks! Yes - you are correct - 36" is the ADA standard for door openings. However, because this bathroom was built for our personal use, we bent some of the ADA standards to suit our needs.

We decided on the 30" opening because of the size of the bathroom as a whole - any wider opening would have greatly reduced the size of the wall enclosure. My husband simply rolls his chair slightly into the opening & then backs up as necessary. He designed the middle of the bathroom so that he can easily turn around in a circle.

Riverview111 - In hindsight, I think we would have extended the waterproofing. The hotmopping went as far as where the 2 wall openings are:

You are right - the entire shower floor slopes towards the drain 1/4 inch/foot.

We have had no major problems with water "run-out/off" - it is probably helped by the fact that our main shower fixture is ceiling mounted rather than extended from a wall. I think however, because of his height (6'3") there is more splash onto the main floor. I'm just making that assumption because there's virtually no splash when I'm taking a shower (I'm 5'1").

Again - my husband just asked me to emphasize that because he designed the bathroom for his needs and the space, we did bend ADA design to meet his needs - at 6'3", safety bars, placement of fixtures, sink heights, etc...were decided on for his height.

Hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any other comments or questions.
binsb
Original Author
19 years ago
Marcia & Kelly - thanks for the comps!
lilathabit
19 years ago
The bathroom is a masterpiece. Fantastic job!
mahatmacat1
18 years ago
Thanks for the information, b. I'm saving this thread and wish you many happy years of--well...of--personal hygiene in that beautiful room :)

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