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.

I think I know who you are trying to find but I can't remember her name. It was something like mycountryhome. Ask over on decorating because I think she owned a restaurant and did something very nice for another member's son once. I do believe she had 19 or 20 kids. They ran into trouble completing their build and I think someone from gardenweb directed them to some kind of farm loan. Someone on decorating will know.

I had the exact same problem. I picked out the vanity I wanted but did not think about the fact that it wasn't made to sit flush against the wall. I spent a month looking for something else, but in the end we decided to go with something shorter and have it not be against the wall. But we were going from 72" to 60" which is probably not workable in your mom's situation. I did find a lot of vanities that did have flat sides and could work in a corner, if you are willing to have the countertop fabricated. They just need to not have any trim detail on the top or bottom like the one you picked out does. I would just look at the ones without the pre-made tops. Because the pre-made top will still leave you with a slight gap because of the countertop overhang. This is an example: Avanity Modero which is sold everywhere, not just at Lowe's. The cabinet we ended up buying is an Avanity Madison which won't work for you, but I assume it is of similar quality. We are pretty happy with it. The drawers and doors have soft close but I do feel like the glides in my Ikea kitchen drawers are better quality. It is very pretty and I wanted a stained wood so I am really happy with our choice. If I had been willing to go with a painted finish, I think we might have stuck with the 72" Modero.

Slate tile is a great choice. I have it in a washroom and we love it. But it does tend to feel cold underfoot. Any chance you are considering under floor heating in that bathroom. We got brushed slate, which means that there are no rough edges or shaling going on. We got a dark grey colour but I also saw it in other colours, lighter grey (almost a greige colour), a green colour and some that was closer to black but had some significant rust colour in it. If you have a look, you should find it easily and it came in many sizes as well. I like something like 12 X 18 or 12 X 24 tile for flooring. When you say you want to use it in the shower as well, do you mean on the floor of the shower? If so, then you'd need much smaller tiles for that to accommodate the slope needed towards the drain in the floor. But you can likely find the same stone in smaller tile sizes. I recommend the brushed slate for the smoothness. Some slate I looked at I felt the ridges were enough to catch your toe and some were quite sharp feeling as well. I think that could look really fantastic with a white subway tile. Have a look at some of the handmade looking tiles. That might go really nicely with the rustic look of the slate tile for the floor. Have you chosen a vanity? We went with a pearly grey colour and that was the colour of grout we used as well and it looks great.