Muddled style for bathroom?
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jlc712
9 years ago
Nothing Left to Say
9 years agoI don't have any pictures of large format floor tile with smaller wall tile. But here's a houzz picture showing a similar floor tile in a bathroom with some vintage elements.
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I am pretty adamant about using large format tile on the floor for durability and ease of cleaning. But I could see if I can find an 18 inch square tile. I think I'd want that set on the diagonal and then I would use subways instead of 4 x 4s on the diagonal on the top part of the shower wall. Does that flow better with vintage? (I'd love to find really big grey hex tiles for the floor--like 18 inches. But I haven't seen anything even close that's rectified porcelain.)
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Bathroom sinks/vanity are IN bedroom, not bathroom- HUH?
Comments (30)My parents house is like that, but there’s a wall with a wide doorway into the area with the vanity, so it’s open but also easy to close off by just putting a curtain rail up. It’s also oriented to the room such that if you only use enough light at the vanity to wash your hands for a midnight potty run, it really isn’t enough to bother someone in the bed if you place the bed sensibly. Getting ready in the morning would be trickier if you needed to do makeup and so on so needed proper lighting, so that’s where a screen or a curtain would come in....See MoreBathroom Reveal, Thanks to the Bathroom and Remodel Forums!X-Post
Comments (6)Lovely! I like the classic white tile and porcelain and how you used furniture pieces in the bathroom. I love that the storage at the end of the tub has pull-outs that can be reached from the toilet. Your custom sink and backsplash and counter are unique and beautiful. Yours may be the first bathroom sink I have seen in which a small or medium dog could be washed! That is a good thing! I showed your pictures to my DH because I am thinking of classic tiled walls with a chair rail for when we redo our bath in a couple of years. He liked it! I was expecting him to say, "too old fashioned." He did not, he said it looked nice. From him, nice is a compliment. He even liked your rows of listello. I was just at the Tile Shop's site the other day looking at the Hampton tiles because someone was selling some on Craigslist. I am hoping to do as you did and get what I can cheaper there, and fill in the rest from the store. I can see that you worked very hard to secure all of your materials - and then cut the floor tiles to size and culled the Hampton tiles, too! You succeeded very well in getting the look you wanted while saving money along the way. Congratulations, and thank you for the pictures and great detail and supply list....See MoreModernize existing bathrooms, or build master bathroom?
Comments (24)Many thanks to everybody who answered, you have all been very helpful in clarifying my very muddled thoughts. Here is a hopefully clearer description of the situation: The house is a 50's ranch style, with 3 bedrooms and a hall bath (4.5x8.5 ft) clustered on one side of the house, and the kitchen, office/den and another hall bath (4x9 ft) on the other side of the house, with a great room in the middle. We plan to stay in this house as long as we can, but we are in this city for my husband's work, and if something happens (although unlikely with his kind of job), we know we'll have to move somewhere else; therefore, we'd like to make updates to the house while keeping resale in mind. Our (excellent) realtor said that for resale we should have an ensuite. After reading the comments, I have to clarify with him if he thinks a lack of ensuite will narrow down the market significantly, or if we 'simply' would not get the best price for the house. Most houses in the area are old (in the whole city actually), and we saw plenty without ensuites. We saw two of the neighbors' houses, and they did not have ensuites. This is what we considered: 1. Redo the bathrooms with the existing footprint (not that we have room to change anything inside), but we can go far into making them pretty, 2. Add a door from the master bedroom to the hall bath next to it, and close access from the hall. This I think would be a bad idea, not only because the people in the other two bedrooms will have to go across the house to the other bathroom, but also because the master bedroom will end up with windows on two walls, three closets on another, and two doors on the fourth side. Not restful. 3. Add another bathroom next to the master bedroom where the closets are, with one closet door transformed into a bathroom door. This bathroom would be 4.5x12 ft, although it could go to 5x12 if need be (but no more, because we'll hit a big window), which will have a shower but no bathtub. We talked to a professional who said it will fit fine with the caveat that the toilet will likely be the first thing you see in front of the door because of the current clearance requirements. 4. Build an addition. This again I think would be a very bad idea, since it would be blindingly expensive and the house is already on the higher side of square footage for the surrounding area. We will of course fix everything that is broken. The interior doors are the original 50s doors, hollow core dark wood look with lots of scuffs and holes, and they were cut short to fit the now non-existent carpet, so I would qualify changing them as fixing what is broken (and they bug me every time I look at them... ). The windows are a perk; we are still divided on those. I tend toward option 1, while my husband is going for option 3, although he agrees we do not need another bathroom. The reason I feel ill equipped to make this decision is that I'm originally from Europe, and even after so many years here I feel mildly perplexed about the North American love affair with bathrooms. Our previous rental was built in the last ten years and had a huge ensuite which I didn't like. I found it hard to keep as clean as I thought it should be, and it was so large I felt as if I was doing my business in public. Given the bathroom pictures on Houzz, I'm clearly in a minority. Your comments help ensure that I don't miss anything that might otherwise be obvious, so thanks again. And extra thanks to whoever makes it to the end of this post......See MoreBathroom dilemma. What to do with90s bathroom
Comments (2)Did you try the Bathrooms forum? Or perhaps Home Decorating....See MoreNothing Left to Say
9 years agoNothing Left to Say
9 years agoI found possible sconces, faucet and knobs for the vanity. Hopefully these would be simple enough to look right but still a bit vintage in feel. I'd like to go all chrome for the metals, but the sconces I like don't come in chrome. They do come in polished nickel. I'm not sure if that will look like a swing and a miss though, especially if I go with a chrome medicine cabinet?
This Kraus faucet in chrome;
Two of these sconces from schoolhouse electric in polished nickel (?)--they don't come in chrome--for over the vanity:
This medicine cabinet from Pottery Barn in chrome (?)
And these glass pulls available on Myknobs:
Thanks!loves2read
9 years agoNothing Left to Say
9 years agoSo that faucet reads very modern to you? I thought it read more transitional with a bit of vintage because of the shape and the ceramic handle. Do you have an alternative to suggest?
We had to replace the showerhead in this bathroom not long ago and are quite happy with what we chose. So we will be reusing it. It's a Hansgrohe raindance handheld shower head in chrome. But it won't be visible unless you actually go inside the shower so I don't think it will have much impact on the feel of the room.
jlc712
9 years agoNothing Left to Say
9 years agoThanks! I really do like those sconces, but I think you are right that the polished nickel and chrome right next to each other might not work well. The medicine cabinet does come in polished nickel so one option would be to switch it to polished nickel too, though my understanding is that polished nickels don't necessarily match across brands.
I don't like this sconce from pottery barn quite as much, but perhaps it would work better in the overall scheme?
Nothing Left to Say
9 years agoOr I could switch the medicine cabinet, perhaps to this one from Pottery Barn
Then the sconces wouldn't be right next to another metal.reblecka
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9 years ago
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