What a lot of great details. It's gorgeous, and I love the cow picture. I remember you received a definite yes about using in your bathroom. It's all really lovely, especially the soapstone.

What a beautiful remodel. I love that accent rug too.

That is just gorgeous! I love your tile, soapstone, paint color. It's all just lovely. Thank you for sharing pictures with us!

That is one of the prettiest bathrooms I've seen in ages! Love everything about it including the view out the window. My shower is similar shape and size and I got rid of the glass door and hung a white linen shower curtain. Best decision for me. It dries quick and so easy to pop in the washer with a couple of towels. For hand towels I would use hooks. All of my towels have hanging tape (I'm sure that's not the proper word) centered on one edge of the towel.

that laundry chute is awesome! Congrats on a great re-do.

I"m so glad tannatonk said that about her curtain v. the door. I would also go for a curtain. You can toss the liner when it gets gross, and launder the curtain. and there are so many really nice shower curtains out there now.

Also want to say I love the flush mirrors and their latches.

I have this type of rack on the vanity for hand towels .

https://www.overstock.com/Bedding-Bath/Solid-Brass-Countertop-2-ring-Guest-Towel-Holder/3105026/product.html

Mine is a cheaper version of ravencajun's and I love the ease of it.

Or this one to go with the fabulous cows ?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/448756464/rustic-wall-hook-rack-cow-decor-wall?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=vintage&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=towel%20hooks&ref=sr_gallery_29

As far as having just a curtain give it a try first, that Is what I did while waiting for my our install. I have only curtains in my other showers and I hate it now after having had the glass. In certain temps they blow at me and in my small 3x3 guest shower it makes my closed space , that might be cozy with a glass door, very claustrophobic and yucky.

also, in my large tub shower combo it is ok but it takes me ages to undo and redo the hooks while standing on a chair with a neck crick each couples of weeks to clean it. Granted I have a ring around the tub and need two curtains not one but still PITA. My door takes seconds to squeegee after the last shower of the day and has not needed a glass cleaning in the three months it has been used multiple times a day! I so much prefer my glass now to any curtain I have ever used and I was very hesitant to get it.

So pretty! What a lovely transformation!

Oh, wow! I need to look at the details later when I have more time, but it looks just lovely! What a wonderful bathroom!

I was going to consdier a curtain; at least you don' t have to deal with crutt that sooner or later accumulates. Just toss the shower curtain in the washer or in the trash after a couple of years.

Just beautiful.

Really like this countertop towel holder:

https://www.overstock.com/Bedding-Bath/Victoria-Fingertip-Towel-Stand/9397854/product.html?recset=b472fb70-e344-424a-8dee-2b1e09738cf2&refccid=DGBIUZDQNXPKGTSNCYSMIQ5XOE&recalg=872,873,839&recidx=1

That lavender wall paint is just gorgeous, remodel well done

Oh that's such a lovely space!!!

Congratulations! Everything just sings together. So many cute and smart details as well. Love everything, from soapstone to cows:)

As for the questions about shower door and hand towels..I'm a big fan of shower curtains, and it can work very nicely in your bathroom I believe. And freestanding something for the hand towels. Check Etsy for these, would be my advice..you might be lucky to find something unique.

(I'm searching there for months myself already..only I need the body-sized towels freestanding rack...no luck for me, everything's too small/too huge..)) But that's how I know you'll have a nice chance to score a hand towel one you'll like)

Thank you all.

The only problem I see with a freestanding towel holder is that they are kind of tall right? They'd have to be to keep the towels off the counter. So they'd block the doors from opening. I guess I could put one in each back corner where the doors will clear them or one in the center but then the center door could not open without moving the towel rack. I don't open that one very much (our toothbrushes and toiletries are in the cabinets above the sinks) but still it might be annoying.

I was kind of thinking of either folding the towel and leaving it on the counter (which is what we're doing now) or hanging two small hooks - one for my husband's sink on the short wall beside the door that you see in the front left of the first picture of the new bathroom and one for my sink on the wall below the cows, but probably back closer to the window so it would be behind me when I am standing at the sink. There's not that much clearance between the wall and my elbow, so I wouldn't want the towel right next to me as I stood there. I'm just not sure if that would look bad and there's no way to know without drilling holes and actually hanging them. Though I guess I could always patch the holes if worse came to worse.....

I normally don't like shower curtains however I discovered the ones that don't require hooks they are hookless and have a mesh area at the top which allows lots of light and air circulation . This makes it less claustrophobic and stops the curtains blowing into the shower . I got mine at bed bath and beyond . They have a very nice snap in liner which comes in fabric or plastic I use fabric , throw it all in the washer on sanitize .

If you use hand towels they fold over the ring of the holder so only half as long , really not too tall I don't think . I guess some are taller than others .

https://m.bedbathandbeyond.com/1/3/hookless-shower-curtains

Try it first with command hooks ! No holes .

That is one gorgeous bathroom, and I really like the purple (she says as she tries to figure out where to put that color in her house.)

Beautiful, beautiful bathroom!

It's just perfect! The cows and that gorgeous rug...the soapstone; it's yummy!

Love it! Love it all!

It looks super and special, one of a kind and I LOVE it.

The materials, the colors, the functionality are fabulous! So very beautiful and full of good ideas. I've long admired your design sense, lkp, & am keeping your pictures as inspiration for my own bathroom remodel.

great job. LOVE that laundry chute!

Gorgeous!

I was so set on a pedestal tub, until I saw your soapstone surround.

Gorgeous!

This is perfection! Such a lovely renovation. I am gaga over the soapstone.

Our shower is a lot like yours, same tile pattern...we even have the opening to capture light from an adjacent room. Our opening is cased but your adorable window has me thinking. We have a shower curtain also and I've been wondering if a door would be an upgrade; but since the curtain is functional and cheap, project inertia has set in.

I did the towel holder on the front of the cabinet. Don't do it. You can't stand close to the cabinet, it does block opening the base cabinet doors.

I love your shower and the little shelf for shaving legs. One thing I hate about open top showers is they are cold showers. I think the frameless shower door would look wonderful in this application. Save up for it if you can't afford it right now. The shower curtain blowing onto you while showering will get old. These doors do open in both directions. In my shower the door can open all the way into the hardware on a cabinet. I solved the problem of the glass bumping the hardware by placing one of those little clear cabinet door bumpers on the glass door. This keeps the door from bumping something hard and shattering. Works well. You don't see the bumper unless you look for it.

All in all, this is a great bath. I'm in the market for a new home and this is just the sort of bath renovation that appeals to me.

Thank you everybody! Those of you with shower curtains on a stall shower like this, I would love to see some pictures. In fact, whether you have a shower door or a curtain, I would greatly appreciate pics! I am one of those people who can't picture what something would look like without seeing it first -- I spent hours browsing pinterest and houzz for photos of pretty much everything in this bathroom!

Ravencajun - your idea about command hooks is genius - I am going to try that to see where I like the towels and then hang real hooks! Why didn't I think of that?! Also, how do those hookless shower curtains work -- I can't figure it out from looking at the site!

Awm03 - aw shucks. Thanks! My design style definitely isn't for everyone (including sometimes my own family members LOL!) so it is nice to be complimented.

Sunnysmom - yes, that was one of the biggest deliberations of the whole project - I really really really wanted a vintage clawfoot tub. The laundry chute was the sticking point - there was really nowhere to move it where it would still drop in an ok place in the laundry room (basically it had to be on the tub side not the vanity side or it would drop into the foyer!). And leaving it where it was would have meant either a big trap door in the floor (which would have looked bad and probably been totally unsafe!) or some kind of built in cabinet to hide it - which would have had to be right in the middle of the tub. There was no way I could figure out to make it work. So we ended up with another built-in tub and I'm ok with it -- I think ultimately it is more practical for us too -- having the tub deck space is nice as far as having a place to lay your clothes when you are getting dressed, etc.

Barncatz - I would love to see a pic of your shower -- I couldn't find any photos of people who had put windows in their showers and my contractor thought I was nuts!

Homechef - yes, exactly, about open top showers being cold showers. Our old shower was completely closed except for a maybe 1 foot opening over the glass door and what I loved about it was that it was so warm and cozy even with a vent fan running inside the shower itself. -- there were no cold drafts coming in from the ceiling. The contractor was all gung ho about taking down the walls and putting up glass that didn't go all the way to the ceiling but all I could picture was shivering while feeling like I was showering in the middle of this big open room. The way our shower is now, I can shower while someone else is using the sink and still feel not totally exposed. Plus I knew I wouldn't have the patience to perfectly squeegie all those glass walls after every shower. Housekeeping is not my strong suit, LOL!

I would use a curtain I think - more harmonious with the vintagey theme - doors get in the way - and I dont think you could leave a door open, which means little air circulation which means probability of more mold. That is a lovely bathroom - I like the sink cabinets reminiscent of classic circa 1900 kitchen cabs.

The entire room is gorgeous! I love the soapstone, the cows, the tile and window in the shower, the rug...ALL of it!

Really so very nice! What an improvement. I recall your cow art inquiry earlier... it's perfect there.

That is beautiful. I love all the details -- the pale purple walls, the soapstone, the rug, the cow painting. They could be such disparate elements but work together so well.

Well done! The Violet Pearl paint color is nice-love the laundry chute, the half curtain with the view, the soapstone and the leg shaving ledge is a bonus!

I would feel closed in with a curtain. I would go with a glass door. Ours is 6 years old and still looks like new-no crud. It swings both ways, is easy and quick to squeegee and easy to clean and not needed that often (Just make sure you don't have untreated hard water).

Lovely bathroom, and I hope the grout issue is soon resolved .

Your bathroom is DELICIOUS! I love the vanity and mirrored cabinets and the fantastic wall color! I may be reconsidering my initial choice for my new bath!

One tip for the shower curtain is to add some curtain weights to it. It really helps the curtain hang nicely and helps prevent the curtain from encroaching if theres a draft. I haven't sewn in the weight yet in my new home and it is driving me crazy not having it!

Also, I purchased these double curtain hooks from Amazon. I wanted stainless to prevent rusting and they are so much easier to use then the the type that clips closed.

I don't know how I missed this, but what a fabulous, gorgeous room! You must be enjoying it fully now. Hope you solved the shower door dilemma and figured out your towel placement. I, too, hung command hooks, on the outside of the shower for towels and inside for wet washcloths and I've never replaced them with permanent hooks. They work perfectly. I also never have gotten a glass shower door because I decided I like the ease of the curtain. Did you get a glass door?

Haha. Funny that this thread resurfaces today. I am STILL dealing with the grout issue, though I think I am at the tail end. I have not done anything about the door because I was waiting to see what happened with the grout. Basically, original tile guy kept pushing us off and pushing us off til he started ignoring us altogether. Took me some time to find a few other tile guys to come out and have a look. The two tile guys who came out had differing opinions on what to do - one guy said use it, it's fine (which I didn't think it was because gritty bits of grout were running down the wall after every shower!). The other guy recommended painting this sealer on that the grout company sent -- it had to be hand applied -- two coats! -- with a freaking artists' paintbrush (only on the grout lines, not on the tile at all!) so I didn't want to do it myself and he would have had to charge a lot for his time. I decided to test out the sealer to see if it would even help in a few different spots -- some of the threads on the internet from fellow suffferers of this problem said they had spent the time to carefully paint on the sealer and it didn't fix the problem!

So the testing took a while cause I kept getting sidetracked (plus I was dreading what I was going to find at the end of the testing so I was kind of procrastinating -- a lot.) But when I finally buckled down and focused on it, I discovered that while the sealer didn't seem to fix the problem, the areas that I had scrubbed really hard (while trying to see where the grout was "loose") weren't running down the wall anymore -- I guess I had gotten off the loose stuff that didn't cure right. So I tested a small area last week by scrubbing the crap out of the grout lines with a stiff grout brush and letting it dry. I rechecked it today - all good! So just this morning I embarked on the process of super-scrubbing every grout line to get off the loose surface stuff -- so far underneath everything seems ok though I'm expecting that I might find a few spots that need touching up as I go -- which will involve getting a tile guy back again - ugh. It's slow going -- all that hard scrubbing is kind of tiring so I can only do so much at a time - I did maybe a quarter of the shower this morning and now my arm is killing me, LOL! But it's better than tediously painting two coats of sealer with a tiny paintbrush!!!

Anyhow, thanks for the compliments! I have not hung any towel hooks either, though I did replace the stand with one that has towel bars on the side -- I thought that would work at least for my sink (the one on the end closest to the stand) but since the towel bar is behind me, I didn't end up using it. We've just been folding the towel up on the counter. I'm such a slacker LOL!

Olychik - I remember it, but only now am I wondering whether those awesome recessed medicine cabinets were custom since I now have a need....

Delilah - they are custom and they aren't actually recessed. There's a closet organizer system bolted to the wall on the back side of those cabinets so it was not possible to remove studs and recess cabinets but I really wanted that look. Our contractor came up with the idea of having a very large and shallow 3 door cabinet made and mounting it on the surface of the wall then bringing the rest of the wall forward to line up so that the top cabinets look recessed. So the upper cabinets are like 5-6" deep and there's a 5-6" gap behind the vanity, backsplash, light fixtures, and crown molding to make it all look like one cohesive wall. I don't know if I am explaining it well...hopefully you get what I am trying to say. At any rate, it was much simpler to "pull the wall forward" to the front of the cabinets than it would have been to actually recess cabinets into the wall. Thankfully the niche area was deep enough to allow us to do that and still have a normal depth vanity/countertop. As an added bonus, having the 5-6" gap behind the vanity gave them room to run the plumbing for the 2nd sink without having to drill through studs, etc so the plumbing cost was cheaper.

What a wonderful solution!

And now bumping out my vanity wall is on the list to discuss with contractor next week. Trouble is it's not in a niche, so the bump out would be just a portion of the wall. I can't bump out the rest of the room without moving the toilet (not going to happen). May look stupid?

very smart indeed.

yes, getting good trade people right now is hell. everything is a wait..we have some problem with our under cabinet lighting which i madly love-visually all is fine..it might be an easy fix, but the GC doesn't want us to mess with it at all since it's on his warranty..wants to send his guys. it's 2 weeks waiting -since everyone's booked

we have some rusty and black marks on some of our grout in the shower-from the water when it was tested first..they promise to clean it at some point. it's been two months we're occupying the house..

wanted to try and clean myself-but got spooked by the instruction on the grout cleaner..says "for white grout"-and ours is not white..have no idea whether it makes a difference.

Ikplatow, do you use only brush, or a cleaner too?

Delilah - I wonder if you could make the "fake wall" span the entire length of the room and then just kind of "inset" the toilet -- so it would kind of look like the toilet tank is recessed into the wall. I can't imagine you'd hit your head or anything - it would be no different than having one of those over the toilet cabinets hanging on your wall. I'm not sure, but it might be something to consider.

Aprilneverends - I have only been using a brush. I think it is brute force that is kind of knocking off the loose superficial grit. When I first started, as soon as the grout got wet, it all turned to mush and you could dig it all out of the joints. But after repeatedly wetting it down and letting it dry as the company instructed, it seems like it is more or less cured -- it doesn't completely soften and come out of the joints anymore. But when we were showering in therewe notieced some of the color and some grit was still running in spots. Now that I scrubbed all that loose stuff off, it seems fixed. I guess if you want to DIY your grout cleaning, I would call the grout company and ask what cleaner they recommend -- seems like most manufacturers have pretty knowledgeable support people staffing their toll free numbers and I'm sure they could point you in the right direction. Good luck!

Hello! I know this is an old thread but I love your "leg-shaving/product overflow shelf" and am thinking of doing something similar. Would you mind sharing the measurements (height and depth) of the shelf? As well as the dimensions of your shower? Trying to figure out if it is worth it for my shower or if it will eat up too much space. Thanks in advance!