X post to bathrooms... ming green bath floor maintenance?
remodelfla
11 years ago
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Ming Green Copycat Bath
Comments (23)The tile in this bathroom goes up to about 56" (48" of subway tile + about 8" for the trim pieces and mosaic border) above the floor -- which is higher than you would normally go. The reason I did it so high is because I didn't want the decorative tile border to hit the medicine cabinet in an awkward location (i.e., I didn't want to have to cut into one of the trim pieces or the strip of mosaic to fit the bottom wood trim of the medicine cabinet). A downside of having the tile so high is that the light switch/power outlet is also higher than normal (since I didn't want to put that in the middle of the tile, either) -- so young kids can't turn on the lights by themselves. I think 48" is a more standard height -- but I would think about how the tile will fall relative to any other elements you need to work around (e.g., medicine cabinets, windows, light switches/outlets, etc. Here's another bath that I tiled up to 51" (48" to the top of the subway tile plus 3" of trim) -- the black liner ended up fitting in perfectly with the bottom trim piece on the medicine cabinet:...See MoreMing green marble floor maintenance?
Comments (6)Before you use all those toxic cleaners the regular (non health-food) grocery store sells, think of what it does to your body, if it's doing THAT to your marble. Most of getting rid of the germs is removing them from surfaces, not launching an all out nuclear attack. I think you should try the same tests you did on your limestone on a Ming marble sample. I had a gorgeous pink marble tile floor in the hall/kid bathroom in my old house. The bathroom was also the home of the washer and dryer, and all associated products (for me, those would be 7th Generation detergent, baking soda, and vinegar). At the time, we had 4 kids (3 boys!). I would do the marble again in a second. Now, I did not mind that the floor got scratched and scuffed. I considered that a patina, and that it made the floor less slippery. When we moved out, the floor was not as glossy as the day we put it in, but it still looked beautiful. I did use a little bleach around the base of the toilet, to get the grout white again. This was after 3 years of boys in various stages of potty training. I have been to Italy, where marble floors and countertops are ubiquitous. In the very old houses, the marble just has a matte finish. In Baltimore city, the old rowhouses are reknowned for their beautiful outdoor marble steps the ladies would scrub EVERY day. Toxic bathroom cleaners you buy in the regular old grocery store are bad for your health and the environment anyway. You can clean your whole bathroom with things like baking soda, vinegar and water in a 1:4 ratio, steam (I got a $30 steam-cleaner at Tuesday Morning -- the steam kills EVERYTHING loosens up all bathroom gook, etc. with no toxic fumes. It's just water!) Seventh Generation makes a kick-arse toilet cleaner. If you want the bathroom to smell clean and to kill germs and mold without ruining your body or your marble, put a couple of drops of essential oils of lemon, lavender, eucalyptus, rosemary, cedar, pine, tea tree, tangerine, or some combination thereof, in your homemade cleaning solution. It only takes a minute to put a glop of Bi-O-Kleen all-purpose cleaner degreaser in a spray bottle, fill up the bottle the rest of the way with water, shake it up, and go to town on the bathroom. I promise it will still sparkle like you used the Dupont and Dow crap that uses known endocrine disruptors....See Morehelp me with these bathroom paint colors and finishes (x-post)
Comments (2)Ppbenn, thanks for the response. Paint is so funny. I look at it and look at it...on the wall...on my painted boards...day and night. I am so sympathetic towards you for having painted all of those times in your kitchen, but I can understand the need for color perfection. The soapstone sink will be new. I got the idea to make it myself after I fashioned my own soapstone counters (with the help of my DH for the heavy lifting and strategic planning). NOBODY wanted to help me so we were on our own. I loved working on the stuff so I will make my own sink for the bathroom. I think I am a natural sculptor. After I get back from a retreat at the end of April I will start on this remodel and the sink build. The carpenter will build my sink cabinet sort of like I've drawn. I want the sink to function as a nice bathroom sink and a laundry sink. This room is a hard working room in our home. Hope it all works out. The faucet will be a Hansgrohe wall mount Montreux, in chrome. The spout actually adjust from 6-8" from the wall, which is perfect for me since I will be building my own sink and lord knows where the drain will end up :) Initially I wanted to go with brushed nickel for the warm look, but I got a good deal on the bath filler in chrome, so chrome it was. I am happy with this cause I like the shine. Here is the faucet for the sink:...See MoreGreen & Gold: Too Bold? (X-Post Bath Forum)
Comments (14)Jenny: We did think about white because of the room looked pretty good with just the primer coat. But we wanted some color, since in the bathroom's previous life we'd painted the walls a light grey and that made it "feel" cold all the time. Not so bad in the summer, but not so good for New England winters. We probably should revisit white -- or at least a lighter color, since we now have the darker floors, the darker wood, and the charcoal sink. Thanks for suggesting that. YaYaGal & Sprout26: Hmmm. That Smokey Taupe might be the ticket. It looks like it would be a good match for the tile -- which might be just the thing to add some color, but not draw too much attention to itself, as Sprout26 suggests. And it's in keeping with Jenny's suggestion above. Schoolhouse: Thanks for the picture. Cameras and computer monitors certainly do show colors in strange ways some times, don't they. Your gold doesn't have that green tinge. I think I like it better than the one we have right now. Kswl: Thank you come coming back with additional thoughts. We went to Lowe's and asked for the gold color, but dialed back 75% (to have only 25% of the color). When we painted it on the wall last night, there was no difference -- even in this morning's light. Sounds like we need to pick a lighter gold from the get-go. We'll see. DH is getting color-fatigue, which is too bad, because he often has better color sense than I do. At least color changes are relatively cheap -- and all that painting and reaching the high ceilings is good exercise!...See Moreremodelfla
11 years agolaurajane02
11 years agoHere's a photo of a ming green floor:
I originally wanted to do something like that, but the ming green samples I got were awful.
The main maintenance that I'm expecting to have is the white grout.
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