No one? : (

Since the baths are vintage have you thought about buying antique dressers and having them cutomized to vanities? I just purchased one for my guest bath. I'm sorry I won't have a photo till next week. I think the antique furniture really enhaces the feeling of vintage vs a basic vanity. Just a suggestion.

As for the flooring, I don't think anything says vintage like hex. There are so many patterns and variables.

Can wait to see photo's of yours completed. I'm sure they'll be beautiful.

Thanks Brutuses. I actually would consider it for the master but the hall bath has an alcove I want the vanity to be built in to. It will sit just about flush in there, 46 inches wide.

I have to go to another tile place to look at more hex tiles.

Any sources of images for inspiration? I checked around here and have been ripping stuff out of magazines like crazy. Have lots of sites bookmarked, just looking for "the one."

We had ours custom built and I am so happy with it. I got two different custom quotes one was $3000 for what seemed to be lower quality product and design. The other was $1000 by a guy that spent ages with me going over the design and using the all wood materials I wanted. He did a fantastic job and my only regret is I didn't know about him when I had my kitchen done.

So my advice is to look into custom and get a few quotes. Ask around to see if anyone knows someone who does this on the side.

Here is one of my favorite sites.

Here is a link that might be useful: summerpine vanities

We had ours custom built and I am so happy with it. I got two different custom quotes one was $3000 for what seemed to be lower quality product and design. The other was $1000 by a guy that spent ages with me going over the design and using the all wood materials I wanted. He did a fantastic job and my only regret is I didn't know about him when I had my kitchen done.

So my advice is to look into custom and get a few quotes. Ask around to see if anyone knows someone who does this on the side.

Here is one of my favorite sites.

Here is a link that might be useful: summerpine vanities

I don't know if its what you have in mind, but check out American Restoration Tile. In addition to the ordinary unglazed hex tiles, they also offer unglazed basket weave, spiral pattern and penny rounds (my personal favorite). They have the basic white/cream, but also about 20 or so ther colors that are historical reproductions.

We are just starting to build our addition, so I haven't reached the point of ordering bathroom floor tile, but we are planning to use their in both our powder room and master bath.

Here is a link that might be useful: American Restoration Tile

Budge, thanks, that's a great site. Never saw it before.

I will look into custom. We used to have a great guy but he won't do it anymore! How did you find your custom guy? Yellow pages? Rec from a friend? I looked at Woodcraft unfinished and thought I could recreate a look similar to what I've seen elsewhere for a lower price, at least for the hall bath but for the master I would like something nicer.

Arlosmom, I love that site and use it for inspiration! We have mosaics with a greek key border in our entry and I looooove it more than anything!

Yes, we found this guy on rec from a friend. He works on his own and has a little shop out in the country so his costs are lower. I also used cab doors from the Habitat for Humanity Restore ($4 each) as well as using some left over doors from our kitchen remodel to lower costs and then painted the whole thing to match. Also wanted to mention that the $1000 was for a small vanity and other larger cabinet as well.

where r u located?? I done a bathroom with Dark Emperidor marble and it came out looking IMACULATE!! it gave the dark rustic antique look with a very elegant and classy appeal.. i think i have pictures of it somewhere if ur interested in looking at some..

email me if you have any other questions.
EBrandao@lapietramarble.com

ErickLaPietra, do you do marble vanity tops? That's the impression I'm getting from your post.

I think I have a couple of photos in my clippings from this forum. I'll see if I can find them for you and you can go investigate.

I apologize that I'm not computer savey so I don't know how to post this to this link so here's the information if you want to go look at the most beautiful vintage bath I've seen. It's posted by Buffalotina on 9/24/06 on the Bathroom Forum and it is entitled "Traditional Design: How to Remodel a Master Bath.........

Hope you enjoy seeing it as much as I did. Let me know how you like it.

Brutuses, I searched and searched and cant's seem to find it! If you go to the page, can you copy the web address and just paste it into your post?

I wish try to do that.

Brutuses, I noticed your attempt to get in touch with Buffalotina. I would love to see her bathroom. Thanks!

I started another thread as I thought this may need to be seen by others. After I opened my clippins of her bathroom photo's, they seemed to have dissappeared. When I went back today to get them to copy, a saw a message that they were gone. I don't understand what happened to them. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this.

I've been planning a vintage bath remodel in my ca1888 house for what seems like forever (I am FINALLY ready to pull the trigger). I'm going for something kind of deco and a little more contrasty than most though.

The walls will be partially tiled in white subway with a black 1/2" liner, a 3x8 embossed tile and topped by a black wainscot cap. I haven't decided what the baseboard will be but either a 4x4 cove base topped by a half inch white liner and then another half inch black liner OR a flat 6x6 topped with a half inch black liner. The floors will be matte glazed porcelain hex, white with some black dots. My shower base is corian but with a terrazzo look in greys and whites. The grout will be grey.

I have black porcelain turtle shade sconces (now discontinued at rejuvenation, I got them on clearance, but they have a similar style still available) and probably will also have a black porcelain overhead light.

I will have two sinks that are adjacent to each other - one will be a slab supported by chrome legs with exposed sink and piping and the other will be a vanity, the cartwright small single sink from restoration hardware. Matching restoration hardware mirrors. The vanity tops will be matching 1 1/4" slabs of honed jet mist granite from a local granite shop.

Here are a couple of elevation sketches I did, this one showing the most likely base idea with the console sink and the other showing the vanity sink but without any kind of a base.

I will also have a new clawfoot tub (sorry to see the old one go but the crappy chipping refinish job has pretty much ruined it for me, I want something that will last a lifetime) that is double-ended with a center mount faucet, chrome feet and that is painted black on the outside (but normal white porcelain on the inside).

The toilet is the toto guinevere, still in my garage, and the faucets are rohl country C-spout. I'm also replacing the radiator with a myson hydronic towel warmer that has kind of a funky vintagey look. Now I just need to get started. Reminds me I have to call the contractor :).

KGWLisa, I love it! How do you create your elevations? They are fabulous! That is basically the look I am doing in my girls' bath but no black. I love the black but we did it in our last remodel and this bathroom has a blue and green stained glass window so I decided to do all white and let the window and wall color stand out. I LOVE that towel warmer. I ripped a pic of that out of This Old House last year. Where did you find it? MUST HAVE ONE!

I was going to do the top of their vanity with Silestone Stellar Snow, which has flecks of glass in it, but the price I got from e-counter for the custom top was higher than a quick quote I got from a stone yard. I am sure I could find an interesting stone for the vanity top, and could do some flecks of color in there.

For my vanity I think I will use the wood cabs from our butler's pantry as inspiration. It's a medium toned wood, but naturally distressed over time. I realized it has the mellowed victorian look I am going for. Not ornate victorian, but well loved and worn. Though I will use chrome fixtures I might do the lighting and knobs in old brass. I think it will kind of go with the house better like that.

I don't know if this will help you, but I am also looking for something more than a basic hex for our hall bath. I want to keep the hexagonal shape to tie in to the period, but I am looking at glass and marble hexes. I am done a lot of research and here's what i have so far:

Glass mosaic hex:
http://www.auc-tile.com/catalog/gx.html

Marble Mosaic Hex:
http://www.mosaicsdirect.com/Hexagon.html

More Marble Mosaic Hex (they have a Blue Celeste Marble)

http://www.annsacks.com/onlinecatalog/program.jsp?cat=272104&coll=278904&prg=1369904

and then a beautiful beach glass hex:

http://www.akdo.com/products_detail_coll.asp?pid=7129&collid=12

But in the end, I will probably stick with ceramic. :-)

That mosaics direct is awesome! Thanks!

Sorry I haven't replied sooner, things have been busy around here. The towel warmer/radiator combo is a myson master suite VR1 hydronic towel warmer. Here is a better picture of it than my kind of crude drawing:

I found it at the inside store but I don't see that they carry the hydronic version any longer. I forget where else I saw it though but with the model info you could google it.

As far as the elevations, I just drew them on autocad. Sorry, I don't know of a more accessible program! I think mixing metals is very appropriate in an old house. I don't have a single room where all of the metals are the same.

I know the black is not to everyone's taste (or so I've been told ;) ) but that's okay. I like it. :)