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Nancy in Mich
9 years agoHi Chris,
I love the green tile, too. I just came across my graph paper plan for putting a tiny 4 ft tub in the half bath. That is my answer to people telling me that I can't remove the only bathtub in the house in the main bath. Maybe I could do that bath in green? Those tiny S. Lucia .5" tiles are so pretty in real life. I have some Oceanside Glasstile 2" x 2" tiles left over from the backsplash in my first kitchen. I used Midori green, also a pearly color that went from white to tan, and a bright blue in that backsplash along with tumbled marble.I wonder if I have enough Midori and pearly tiles left to do something interesting in the small bath and something in the big bath. I know I had 113 2x2 tiles in all left over. They are around here somewhere. I got a cost from New Ravenna of $1000 to design and make a 16" x 20" picture of the pattern they call Willow. Like this one, but smaller. No thanks!
It makes me think that maybe I could fool around with extra tile and stones from jewelry and rock collecting and maybe create something myself. I have a few obsidian stones sitting here, waiting for me to decide to learn to chip them into something interesting! Of course, I think of you as I have these thoughts!
As far as the sink height goes, all will be well using my sit-on rollator walker. If I move to a wheelchair long term, we will have to consider a shorter sink. I have spent the last four months going back and forth about the problems we have to work around with this set up. If the sink is too big, the faucet has to go to the side because the countertop is only 18" deep. If the sink is wider than 20" and needs to be sunken into the counter, we have problems. We don't want a sink too small, or too shallow or too narrow front-to-back. I want it tall enough that I am not bending so far in the morning, 'cause some mornings I cannot reach the faucets to turn them on because my back is too stiff. Do we make the countertop really high, or just the sink and faucet? Then there is the front curve on the vanity. Do I try to get a top for a pedestal sink that has that curve and see if I can make that sit on top of the vanity, so that the sink looks all old and victorian, following the curves and providing a china back and sidesplashes because it is really a pedestal sink?
Elizabethan Classics ECET8WH White English Turn English Turn Pedestal · More InfoIt would be nice and high, then. OMG, I have really done the rounds!
Finally, we went to a showroom, saw this sink, liked it, liked that it was only 13" front to back, so I could get a faucet behind it, looked at the faucets that would work, loved the elegance of the Brizo, and bought them before we could change our minds. We spent two times the cost I COULD have spent on a perfectly good set that was not elegant or a sure bet to work, size wise. This sink is not china, though. It is resin and volcanic limestone, so it will not break easily. It does not stain easily, either. Brizo is a division of Delta faucets, and they make a very reliable faucet with a very good warranty.
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Comments (5)thanks to all who have posted so far, especially Eric. We can probably save/budget down the road for a kitchen redo, or do part of it ourselves. Additions would be a little harder for us except finish work (floors, tile, etc. Can do drywall even but would need to find time to do it). What that kitchen has is a U shaped layout, not too bad except there are overhanging cabinets between a small dining/family space and the kitchen. It's a counter/pass through kind of setup where someone can sit at stools and talk with the person in the kitchen....except the cabinets hang down so the person in the kitchen has to look under them. We would likely tear those out and relocate the stovetop to the perimeter wall and make that pass through an island. Then that entire space could become kitchen/dining. It is possible we could still move out a wall on that (kitchen) side of the house down the road too, we are in Hawaii so all the construction costs are much, much higher than mainland. So jealous of all the posters here who can put on a large extension for less than 50K. Plan A or Plan B will cost us about the same. We don't plan to sell and move anytime soon, but should we need to we're leaning toward sq. footage instead of just extending current bath and upgrading the kitchen. Our neighborhood is about 20 years old so people are beginning to redo those rooms as the fixtures and appliances are ageing. We redid all the appliances about three years ago with stainless finishes, new faucet/sink, and redid the countertop Corian, so the kitchen is livable - just need to clear out some clutter and make smarter usage on available storage space. We could paint or restain the cabinet doors to freshen it up. A few neighbors are creating the "big bang" kitchen now but I'm not certain a 70K upgrade will improve the value that much as a new neighborhood is planned about 5 miles away within the next couple of years. Would we love to live in a "WOW" kitchen, of course. But as with most people we have to make a decision on where it is best to spend the money for now. We could feasibly also add on a 2nd story in future years, but we prefer the single story and if we age-in-place as planned, the new bath will include wide accesses and no-curb shower....See MoreWainscoting height for my bathroom (x-post with Bathrooms)
Comments (5)Well now if you stop worrying about every little freaking thing, what happens to us??? We're unemployed ;-) I'm trying to picture your layout but honestly it isn't clear to me. Generally I like to see something other than a 50/50 split but there are other things that come into play - how does that 50/50 or 33/66 relate to the finished height of your vanity counters, to the windows (if any) either at sill or apron height. I like continuity, too and like to see some relation to other horizontal lines in a space - expecially a space like a bathroom. But that doesn't mean everything has to end at the same height, just that you need to put those other lines into the thought process so you don't end up with staggered and unrelated horizontal lines all through the space. Clear as mud?...See MoreHelp with bathrooms. Divide to two bathrooms or do one large bathroom?
Comments (15)I agree with Cpartist"s layout and like moving the closet over as suggested by D M so that bedroom 3 has easier access to the bathroom. Do you have room to have the toilet face the tub and add a linen cabinet next to the toilet? How wide is the tub toilet area?...See MoreBathroom dust and how feasible is a DIY bathroom remodel for me?
Comments (20)I got the cabinets through Home Depot (20% off) they are not higher end but they have held up extremely well and we’ve been happy with them. I don’t remember the brand, but the color is cognac on maple. They’re standard kitchen cabinets. We got 2 regular drawer banks, 1 extra wide drawer bank, 2 sink cabinets and the closet you can see in the picture for about 1800 w/the discount. We bumped the shower wall 6 inches into the bedroom to make the shower bigger, pulled the cabinets out from the wall a couple of inches to provide more counter top. And curved the edge the counter for interest. Just for fun, this is what we had to start with. The tub was rusted and there were two doors, 1 from the hall & 1 from the master bedroom, we closed up the hall door. I think we got our moneys worth. LOL As for the labor, I found my Contractor through a plumber I had hired to put in a kitchen faucet. I asked if he had someone good he could refer and he referred Matt to me. Matt had his own company but just him and his guys. All of his work was by word of mouth, he didn’t advertise or push for business, he didn’t need to. I think I got fair pricing from him because he didn’t have the overhead a lot of the larger companies might have. He wasn’t the least expensive and he wasn’t the most expensive. Finding someone who was willing to work on our schedule and not having to have it done ASAP is what really helped me to be able to keep our costs at a minium for both labor and materials....See MoreNancy in Mich
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9 years agoWell, tomorrow I will go pick up the marble tile. I don't have the white tile yet, but maybe I will order that, too. Then I can lay out a "wall" on the floor, with the pencil molding and the decorative marble tiles at the top, finished with another pencil molding. You all can vote on the tile design!
Hi Momma Goose! The shower is going to be all Swanstone, in the color Ice, which looks like this
Just mottled gray and white plastic in a matte finish. I got so excited about the marble tiles I found and made Style 3A because they look so much like the Swanstone. They actually make the Swanstone look good. That was an accomplishment.
The Wall tiles are now going to be white 6x6. At the top of the wall tile will be a Carrara marble pencil molding, then two rows of a 3x6 marble tile, then another pencil molding.
The pictures in mosaic tile were for over the toilet, where there is a big empty space of wall, which was really empty looking since the rest of the wall is so busy. After talking with Shades, I learned that I can make a mosaic tile design on a mirror, so I could do a removable one, or one for every season - great idea, Momma! I still have lots of thinking and exploring to do on the subject.
Thanks for the opinion on the vanity color. I am not sure on it, yet, but I am fairly sure that I do not like the rubbed-through look. That means painting it. I am thinking of a clear blue color for the room walls above the tile. Like these?
Palladian Blue
Benjamin Moore White Water
Benjamin Moore Breath of Fresh Air
So, what that means for the vanity color, I have yet to decide. Violet? Blush? Not sure yet!
Nancy in Mich
9 years agoI wish the vanity looked in person as nice as it does in pictures. In real life, it is much bolder turquoise than in the pictures, where it looks blue.
How about I paint the wall above the tile Breath of Fresh Air (the bottom blue, above) and make the vanity Peace and Happiness. It will look good with gray and white marble tile and white ceramic tile.
Nancy in Mich
8 years agoHi everybody! I have been waiting all summer for it to cool off. It seems that the heat makes my dizziness and nausea worse. I have lost about 15 lbs with being too sick to eat throughout the summer. I just this week got my helper here to help me clean the garage and then I moved the vanity out there and sanded it a bit in the easy places, and got it up on a table. I got the brass floor protectors pried off the bottom of the legs and was pleased to find no holes have been drilled in them. That means that I can drill holes for the feet I bought. I have adjustable feet that will give the vanity an extra 1/2" of height, and that can be screwed up to give another 1/2" if we want. That would make the legs appear to float way too high in the air, so I don't think it will work. the extra 1/2" will have to suffice, with the ability to make the vanity level so that the sink will drain properly.
I have also decided that the bail-type handles that came with it are not going to work for us. I can't see us fumbling around trying to grab the bail that has recessed back into the grooves of the handle around it, standing there with water or soap in our eyes. A knob is much easier to use. I had Hubby try using the bail and he vetoed it on the first try and said, "replace 'em!"
I am using these on doors of a set of shallow cupboards that will be recessed into the closet of the the neighboring bedroom. I figured they were a sure bet for the six drawers, too. I am not going to use the center drawer anymore, what with all the plumbing going on above it, so I will just fill in those holes. I need to cut away the bottom of the drawer space, then move the drawer support piece to the left or right. It is at dead center right now, and the sink's drain will need to go there. I just have to sand down the fluted areas of the vanity table, then it will be ready to be primed and painted. I am still leaning toward painting it the violet Peace and Happiness.
I have purchased more components for the plumbing. I have all of the shower controls and the rain shower head and regular shower head. Still need to get the hand-held and some safety hand-hold bars for the shower area. I still have not finalized a wall tile (looking at fake Cararra tile for the room's walls) or floor tile or the surface for the top of the vanity.
We HAVE concluded, though, that we cannot get this job done until Toby, our ever-more-confused beagle/golden retriever mix, dies. He will be 16 at the end of this month. He has spinal arthritis and began vomiting every time he was given his Tramadol or his glucosamine/chondroitin pills, then quit taking them. He had to go on prednisone to control the pain. He is peeing a lot in the house, always on a rug or quilted mattress pad put down for him. The bathroom is his main place to pee. I will not have my new floor grout saturated with dog pee. I don't think the poor guy would cope well with the construction, either. He is now blind in one eye and somewhat deaf. It would be too confusing for him to do all that construction. So even though I can't get Jim over here to do the work, if I could, I would not be able to do it until Toby passes on.
So, instead, we are getting new gutters and trim, and getting our four remaining windows replaced. We did the other three windows when we remodeled the kitchen and made the living room into the library/music room. I am in the process of cleaning and decluttering so the window guys can get in to measure!
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