If you have mold and live in a cold climate, you might need more insulation to prevent cold walls condensing out moisture. Now is the time to do it. See the link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Getting Rid of Bathroom Mold in Drywall

There was compacted old blown in insulation in the walls when siding was replaced last summer. All of it was removed and the pink stuff was put in. All moldy or wet wood was removed ditto drywall on the outside wall. I'll read the link, thanks.

I absolutely love my 12" rainshower that comes down from straight overhead. If you've got the space for it, you might consider two of those, with a handheld on the wall inbetween them.

I don't like showering under a handheld, especially if someone else is under the rainshower. It's too small.

As far as finishes, my recent reading here is that the brushed nickel is no easier to clean and possibly harder to keep looking clean. We're lazy too and have chrome fixtures and I find them really easy to clean.

I hear ya. Except that for us, I was the one who sledged the old do, not DH.

You know the saying. There's nothing to it but the doing it.

As faucets go, we went for polished nickel (Riobel), a 12" rainshower, and a handheld installed so it can reach down to wash the dog. No fancy schmancy water jets in the shower even if our plumber was raving about them. We had to special order these things and I was concerned this would delay the rest of our project. Knowing what we know now, I would not have worried so much. But you do need the roughs of the faucets installed before you close up the walls.

Which bring me to this little piece of wisdom. You mention that this is your one and only full bathroom. This was also the case for us. Do yourself a favour and get yourself one of those little modular inexpensive showers you can rough install somewhere in your basement or garage, for you to have while you are renovating. It'll make life so much easier in the long run.

Cheers!

Will a rainshower from the ceiling splash onto the window? The window is fiberglass not wood but I would assume having water splash on it would not be good.....

Don't want fancy jets in the shower, have a hot tub on the deck but don't want just one showerhead either. Since everything is gutted the time to add something extra is now.

No basement, garage is one car that is full with workbench, furnace, fridge, water heater, etc. No possible place to rig up a shower....This is our only bathroom, period. No half bath. DH was supposed to borrow neighbor's travel trailer that has full bath for this project but just dived in without arranging it.

It's our guest bathroom, and I know from adding the (now) master bath and redoing the kitchen you can never plan on things going quickly!

I am incredibly fortunate to have a dog who not only never misbehaves, never goes in the house, loves everybody, is not hyper, etc but also, through a combination of genetics and the right food, just never smells. Which is a good thing since he HATES baths. He hides in the yard if either of us is thinking about it. He's very smart that way. But the two times in the 7 years we've had him that we bathed him the handshower was critical.

I think that bodyjets are just not a good idea. I get wet, I soap, I rinse. Sometimes repeat. That means stepping in and out of the water, and with bodyjets there is no "out".

It sounds like you've done well. Congrats!

This is what bathroom looks like today, functional but rough, ugliest vanity ever:

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These are the tiles we are using, the "slate" is porcelain, the sage green tile is 6 x 6 square, I cut off it's head in the photo. You can see the most hideous floor on earth we've lived with to the right:

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i really like that porcelain!