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.

Personally, if I saw a door handle one finish on one side and another on the other side, I'd find that strange. Door handles should match each other in the house (or so I thought), not the finish in each room. It will be much more noticeable that you have a two toned door knob than the fact that the door handle doesn't match the other metals in the bathroom. People do not normally notice what door handles match the interior of the room they are in. At least I never have. Unless you think the people who visit you would actually think a two toned handle is appropriate, I wouldn't try that trick. What do the interior door knobs in the rest of your house look like? Also, remember, too much matchy matchy is boring and not noticed but instead blends all together. If you change to a two tone knob then which one should the hinges match? See my point? One thing can lead to another and before you know it you're stressed to a frazzle and for what, a door knob? I'll show you my grays hairs to prove my point. LOL My guest bath hardware is in an antique bronze, almost black finish, yet the door knobs that are in that room and throughout the house are crystal with brushed nickle back plates. Do you think anyone is going to look at my crystal door knobs and think, oh she should have put in antique bronze? Of course not. As long as your selections are stylish, the metal color is not the breaking deal on a bathroom door. Forgot to mention the handles on the antique dresser in my guest bath are antique brass, a third finish in that tiny room. Yet, it all is very beautiful. You have to trust your heart and your eyes sometime and not just think everything has to match exactly, because it does not. Good luck and let us know what you decide.

This is interesting to me because in my former and beloved house, the last thing I did was redo the bathroom. We just agonized and agonized over what to do, how to make it fit the style of the home and yet not cost an arm and a leg. Nothing great would have been lost if we had gutted the whole thing! Boy was it hard to find "period" tiles, particularly something affordable. The tub was an odd size, very difficult to find a replacement that would fit in the room. Just doing a shower would have probably been best, but I wanted a tub and that was the only bathroom space for a tub. My house was built in 1929 and it was a low-end row house. The tub was all that was left, although I know that underneath the beadboard wainscoting was probably the original ceramic tile. The house had a terrible update of a plastic tub surround and plumbing work-around to install a shower. The original bathtubs had no showers, because the half tub just was not designed to have a shower or shower curtain around it. Here was our dilemma, Every plumber and contractor we talked to said just tear the whole thing out and replumb the tub so the shower was against a real wall, like on the other side where the entrance door was. But we didn't want to spend that kind of money, so we tried to go with the original logic, somewhat. The fact that my SO and I are still together after that whole fiasco is some kind of miracle! But did order some nice repro shower fixtures that I found FINALLY after searching and searching. Plumbing it was a PITA, but the hardest thing was figuring out a tile pattern design that I liked and could afford. In the end, I didn't like it, but SO (who did all the installation) said that was all I was getting of the little colored tiles! We also had to have the tub reglazed. This was what was underneath the surround. Really high quality ceramic tiles by today's standards, and not terribly ugly, but ruined. SO used up one whole diamond bit just sawing it out tiny piece by piece, including the plaster and lathe behind it. Not sure if it was worth it in the end. It was less expensive than a total overhaul, but we weren't saving anything that unique or valuable at that point. The shower support had to be bent because the side of the tub was angled. The original tub didn't have a shower so it wasn't an issue. We figured the bend was better than trying to further jimmy-rig additional plumbing fixtures on the outside of the tub, since it wasn't set up for that either. It wasn't clawfoot tub, it was just rounded and sat flat on the floor. Probably would have been best to just tear it all out, but we wanted something minimally invasive to our lives. But tearing out all that ceramic tile sure was dusty! Oh, I forgot the best part, the nooks! Those were the absolute worst geometry problem ever, due to having to be where the studs would allow. This photo is pre tub caulking.

Well, to update this thread. I ordered Hafele hardware for the rolling part of the pocket door. Boy does it look wonderful I will order solid wood doors. They will be lumber inside with a thick veneer of hardwood over the lumber (I believe). No particle board. I have talked to the carpenter and I have added some inches to the walls where the pockets will go. I asked if he could build these pockets with the studs on their sides, as I do not want a wall that flexes. He didn't say anything to that request of mine. He thinks that he can keep the old 1x cladding and build the one wall inward. Regarding the other wall, as I said, he didn't comment. What do you guys think of my thicker wall idea and laying the studs on their sides so that I can have an actual stud wall? I do not want flexy walls. We have a pocket setup from the 70's and it is very flexy, I can take the door jamb and squeeze the two sides together with my fingers and thumb. I do not want to be responsible for putting something like that in this remodel, it would be a nightmare. I can have a better system than that can't I?