I know you! Having recovered from my kitchen, I would like to redo my master bath but have been held up on trying to find a way to improve the shower. I stop over here on occasion to see if I can find inspiration. So sorry you have all this to deal with. I think your ideas are good. Making the bath blend with the rest of the house is good, just keep in mind that it doesn't have to match if you want a little different personality. The larger tub adn less surround sounds good too. The lighint issue is hard to picture, but I don't think you can go wrong with a modest number of recessed lights and a chandelier in the center. The box for the chandelier could house a ceiling fan or different type of fixture down the road. Make sure they are on different switches and you will provide a lot of lighting options. I have an engineered wood floor that has been down 6-8 months now. We ran it through the kitchen also where DH drips at the sink and have it at the back door where kids and dogs come in after being in the pool. We had a party where I was surprised at the number of kids who came in dripping. The water wiped right up -- no damage and I was actually glad we didn't still have our tile, because even with the texture, that much water would have had someone on slipping and falling on it. Mine is Bella Cera, but it is marketed under different names in other areas. They did a floating installation but I watched them put glue along all the edges, so that may help seal the edges. There used to be a thread on HGTV that had a series of photos of what appeared to be my same flooring under the Palmetto Road name. Mine is Bella Cera Amalfi Coast by Southern Floors. I can't find that now, but here is a photo from their website that was one of those on HGTV. I'd have taken the house with the floors, but I like them in mine too. ;-) I can't recommend cork from the stuff we ordered but did not install. I wanted it and would have loved it if it had been something that would clean. What we laid down to check the color with the hardwood was a very different color from the sample, but the real killer was that the floor dust that got on it when we had it down wouldn't clean with anything dry and both the recommended Bona cleaner and a barely damp microfiber cloth created a haze on the finish. Didn't look like anything we could live with so we put the wood down throughout. It's holding up great.

Thanks, but I have a regular house, not a mobile home. I guess what I has me in a puzzle is this: though we've had a great deal of rain and snow since I repaired the roof last fall, there has only been this one incident. Granted, I may have not seen it before. Still, the total amount of water leaking was, maybe, about two tablespoons. Since then I've been watching and see no water. I'm wondering whether such tiny and intermittent leaking is at all common. Mind you, I want to get this fixed, though at the moment I am totally strapped for cash.

I'm sorry, I didn't see that, yeah polystyrene is the foam i was talking about. It looks like you already have insulation. Capillary action is dragging water right under that whole floor. That looks like a damp corner outside where you have brick. So dumb I missed the water creeping right under your door threshold. Either you have a bad door pan or the door pan has no place to drain to. Either water is coming down the outside wall and going under the door, or water is pooling up in the brick patio and working it's way in. The solution to fix the patio surface is similar to a shower basin. If the flashing is all good around the door, you might need a little catch basin in the patio outside the door to shed water away from the door.

In their online literature, Armstrong shows a stack of peel-'n-stick sitting on OSB in the second picture, clearly inferring OSB as an appropriate underlayment. Clearly confusing! As Armstrong’s more detailed installation instructions says this: Source p.50 There are certain OSB panels that are designated specifically for underlayment. And as referenced here by a flooring professional, some vinyl manufacturers advise against OSB without further treatment and a liquid underlayment on top of the OSB. I confess, I've only taken the easy route and just used plywood underlayment panels!