Wooo!!! Cat, I am stuck at home because of the snow storm so wandered around here not looking at anything in particular and came upon your thread. I totally agree with you on the shower curtain choice. Regardless of whether I have the money to spare or not, keeping those suckers clean is a nuisance over time. We have a glass shower door that was installed back in 2003 and I can't tell you how much I hate cleaning it. Not that the door is all that dirty, but a shower curtain is way easier, and you can change the look/style whenever you feel like it. Can't do that with a pricey shower door. Anyway, everything looks lovely as usual, including the "prom" dress :-) Love, love those circular tiles, and the floor tiles that look like fabric. Gorgeous. What colour is that again? It looks greyish on my monitor.

Thanks everyone. Brooke and ritamay- I appreciate your thoughts! I think a strip would be more subtle, less expensive and less hassle than the whole back wall. In fact, this wasnt even the glass tile that I wanted. The stuff I wanted was gorgeous, and completely sold out for a couple months. I think that all this brown might overwhelm the bath. Or I could just paint, not do any backsplash and wait. That may be the best route. I need to speak with the contractor and see what he is cabable of. If he cant do this, than it will be paint all the way. dianlo, I am so emotionally and physically exhausted from this project. You are right that I just want to be done. I DREAD going to home depot now, the sight of home/remodeling magazines makes me nauseous, and I am acclimating to the drywall dust/no kitchen/one sink (which is a luxury, actually). The only thing is that the concrete backsplash is not cheap, and I almost think that I could do something better for the money, or not at all.

I have to chuckle at all the folks saying that a second sink is just something extra to clean... If you have a second sink and don't like to clean it -- don't use it! Just share one of the sinks... We have a two-story house. One bathroom is downstairs, and it has only one sink. The master bathroom is en suite, and it has a long counter with dual sinks. Separate oval soaking tub, separate shower. The toilet is in it's own little room with a door, and there's also a door into the master walk-in closet. (Pocket door between the bedroom and bathroom.) The hall bathroom upstairs also has a very long counter with two sinks. The bathtub has a "shower over." The hall bath would normally "serve" whomever would be in the two extra bedrooms upstairs (kids in a "regular" family), but since we don't have kids and the two extra bedrooms are used as hubs' office and my office, he uses the hall bathroom, but he showers in the master shower.

If you remove the last part of the picture address you will see that this photo is attached to an online virtual decorating service. Someone has either bought a virtual design for their bathroom or is the "designer" themselves. I might have sounded harsh in my critique for the space because this sort of thing gives design professions a bad rap. Should this person have been a real client, they would have purchased a poorly designed space for their bathroom. It would be both expensive in it's execution and an expensive mistake they would have realized while standing in their tub attempting to dust the shelves off the bookcase. I do give points for creativity and while that's good enough for a first year design student, it is not for a design professional selling to the general public. This person does not appear to have attended a school because there are mistakes that are present in the space planning itself. It appears to be items plucked into the space and then "cool" materials plucked onto them. While we do want to encourage creativity and thinking out of the box, we do want to make sure we are being responsible. In my opinion, it is not a responsible designer that creates a major remodel for a bathroom for someone when one does not possess experience, education or a combination of both.