Need advice! Strange toilet - Bathroom Remodel
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Bathroom remodel, need advice
Comments (9)If you can't replace the vanity, I'd install a new medicine cabinet. That is a child's height vanity and the drawers are awkwardly placed under a protruding shelf. Focus on improving the function until you're able to rip everything out. Kohler has some nice 26" cabinets that are about $150. Build.com is a good place to shop for everything you need for your bathroom. We have that type of shower surround in both bathrooms and they are impossible to get really clean. I believe ours is acrylic and we've tried several different products. A Magic Eraser works best but that is slow-going. Use a curved shower curtain rod and hide it. Bronze faucets don't wear well unless you get a good brand. Delta is one company who stands by their products. You might get more guidance in the Remodeling forum about why the shelf might be there and if it's safe to remove it. It's taking up too much bathroom real estate and will prevent you from achieving a refresh, much less a spa vibe. By "wires", do you mean it has an electric outlet?...See MoreNeed advice on color of paint for bathroom remodeling
Comments (3)How about I replace the toilet and paint the tub? I have never painted the tub, is there an easy way to do this? Spray perhaps? I guess I am asking how do I change the other parts of the bathroom to match the vanity? I got a good deal on the vanity, and I like to try to make it work, but I do have the option of returning it....See MoreAdvice needed: Tile Job, bathroom remodel, uneven grout
Comments (10)Here are a few quick tips to find out how "correct" the install is (or isn't). Correct meaning 'will not fail' vs. looks pretty. Looking pretty and being correctly installed are two different animals. 1. Caulking is used at EVERY change of plane (ahem...corners). Grout is NOT allowed when tile goes around a corner or goes from flooring tile to wall tile. To check for caulking just poke your finger nail in there and push. If it feels rubbery = caulking. If it feels like hardened sand/stone = grout. **Hint** Look at the GROUT that is sitting all around the wall cubby and the grout that is running down the corner...check the marble floor/tile wall connection. Do you see more grout? 2. Did they use wood (raw wood) at the shower threshold? If you remember seeing a plank of timber being 'tiled' you have issues. 3. Water Draining out of the shower should be even. The shower floor should not have areas that are left 'wet looking' (ie. darker...marble is AWESOME at showing this...which means you can test this very easily for yourself) for hours while other areas look 'dry' very quickly. An uneven drying time tell us water is SITTING (ie. not draining) under the marble. Issues like a mentioned above can be a perfect storm waiting to come crashing down (through the ceiling? below?) around your head. They are also issues that point to a REDO (especially the shower floor stuff). The uneven wall tiles = uneven wall. They needed to shim the walls (when the studs were exposed) and/or float the tile (very difficult and expensive and requires an OLD FASHIONED Tile Pro to get it done properly). You didn't get either. In other words your General Contractor used 'guys' to lay the tile and not the EXPENSIVE Tile setters (ahem...GCs HATE using expensive pros...it messes up their bottom line/quotes)....See MoreNeed design advice for bathroom remodel
Comments (16)Emilyam819, thank you. Option 2 is less expensive, and if it looks good, I’m all for keeping costs down. Linen Closet already exists. Additional Linen Closet will replace the current stall shower in the water closet room. I’ve always felt that there was something “off” about the bathroom layout, but didn’t know what it was. You identified it: that the Linen Closet isn’t even with the other walls. I like the idea of a hamper. Design Interior South suggested a base cabinet with a pull-out or tilt-out hamper. I am leaning toward that idea now....See Morepalimpsest
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