Starting from dirt- literally! A basement bath DIY Adventure pt2
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Starting from dirt- literally! A basement bath DIY Adventure
Comments (157)I did see this! And yes, I still LOVE it five years later. We still haven't begun the 2nd-floor bathroom, aka the 1925 Hall Bath/Faux Master which is our only bathroom on the bedroom level with a clawfoot tub & a shower ring. So the Starting From Dirt Basement Bathroom is still my favorite place to shower. So here's how to do the Starting From Dirt Basement Bath set up: Hansgrohe Ibox rough in Shower & tub fixtures - Hansgrohe Rain S Showerhead & hand shower S Thermostatic Trim with Volume Control and Diverter (tub to shower) Kohler HydroRail Shower Column and Diverter (showerhead to hand shower) Metris S tub filler The Tub Filler & Hydrorail are tied together at the Ibox by the diverter on the shower trim, the two showerheads switch between each other on the Hydorail. Run it all by your plumber - I don't know if all these parts (especially the hydrorail) are still available! Good luck! Also, here's a link to Part 2 of the Adventure: https://tinyurl.com/ydntvkzc...See Moreanother newbie - hello!
Comments (17)Hi Casey, It was hard to tell if it was picture molding or a bad installation of a chintzy ceiling molding, since it's stuck right up tight to the ceiling in many places and has a big ole gap in others. I admit to a temptation to take it down and put up a proper crown (although nothing ostentatious at all), since we plan to put some up in the poor denuded dining room. It just looks so pitiful in comparison to that studly baseboard. Yes, I have some Bradbury paper in my current house, but just borders (from the Woodland roomset in Aesthetic Green). That's pretty much the cheapest way to eke it out. Do you have any idea how hard it is to match Bradbury printing colors in paint?? :-) A "the whole shebang" Bradbury room would cost many thousands so it wouldn't happen unless I won the lottery! (I would be replacing those [expletive deleted] windows before I spent that much on wallpaper, they're just SO wrong. I know I'm going to appreciate them come winter but aesthetically they make me grind my teeth.) It's a pretty modest house so I think full roomsets would overpower it, but partial ones OTOH... Now if someone gave me a big fat Bradbury gift card that I couldn't cash out and sent me a paperhanger for several weeks, I would be ordering the Marigolds fill in Jasper Green for the kitchen/dining room, Raspberry Bramble in Aesthetic Green for the hallway/stairway, Alise fill and Glasgow frieze in Natural for the upstairs bath, Claire's Willow in Aesthetic Green for the master to go with the ton of Blossom and Block and Aster border I have left over from this house. I'm more of a Morris girl, but purist of any stripe I am not. There aren't any papers from Bradbury that I'd use for the living room; the dominant color in my LR stuff, and my favorite color, is plum/eggplant and I'm not happy with anything offered there with it. The A&C Forest Green line is too dark and I don't want my entire house green...! (I have a stack of Bradbury samples about an inch thick. LOL) And then DH would strangle me and bury me in the dirt basement... he's OKed three partially-papered rooms, and when we can afford it a totally tongue-in-cheek "High Victorian From Hell" for the hallway/stair. (Although if I came into a real pot of money I'd get Trustworth's "Whoot" for the hall, as it never fails to make me smile. But at $7/sf, yeeeowch.) We also hope to put "tin ceiling" (very likely the embossed-wallpaper version for cost reasons) throughout the first floor. If I wallpapered every room he would be a very unhappy camper, and what I'm already getting is a very big compromise....See MoreBathtub with two shower heads?
Comments (5)I didn't want to put in second Ibox for a diverter (since my goal was to keep it looking pretty timeless/traditional 1930s/40s - it actually turned out fairly modern, so this wasn't exactly what I was after, but I like it.) So what I have is the thermostatic valve, plus a diverter that switches between the shower & tub spout. Then I have the Hydrorail which has a diverter on the bottom - so I can switch between the fixed and hand showers. In fact, I sort of wish I had bought the longer hydrorail - so we could lower the hand shower more if we had little people who were big enough to shower on their own. I think you would need two diverters or one that will do A/B/C/AB - I'm not sure if there is one like that - but I'd research that. (A=fixed, B=hand, C=tub, AB=both showers at once) Thanks!! It was three years of on and off DIY and side projects, but it did turn out exactly as I hoped! And yes, people do shower together in a tub shower, but it is a tad cozy. ;-)...See MoreReview my Grohe/Moen/Hansgrohe Showerhead/Handheld purchase/Plastic?
Comments (6)I can't help with the wall outlet and holder, but I have a similar Hansgrohe hand shower (not the exact same model, but a raindance type) and hose - I've been using them for about a year now and I'm super happy with them!...See MoreHunzi
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