Help with master bathroom remodel!
We are remodeling our home and I need help with our master bathroom. I have attached a photo of what it looks like currently (this is the listing photo but we haven’t changed a thing to it).
Our palette in the house is super neutral. The master bedroom is SW accessible beige (light gray), with a black statement wall, and white trim and ceiling. We have recycled wood barn door shutter on the window that lend a softer look to the neutrals. Our furniture is a mix of oak and walnut woods.
The bathroom is currently tan with tan tile floor and counter, golden oak vanity, and a white tiled shower. oh and the walls have strips of wallpaper that the prior owners then painted over!
Our plan is to remove the wallpaper, sand and finish the walls and ceiling and paint the walls and ceiling SW Alabaster (the trim color in our house). We are installing Flooret Arbor LVP throughout the house and plan on it in the bathroom (it’s waterproof).
For the vanity, this is my issue.... should we keep the vanity or demo it and install a new one? If we keep it, the plan is to paint it black and install new modern hardware. The counter we are thinking of a sealed wood counter top instead of the current tile. My husband is a woodworker and plans to make this himself. It would be similar coloring to our barn door style wood shutter we have in the master bedroom. I want to do a vessel sink, white porcelain ontop of the counter. For the mirror, we are thinking of adding a frame and possibly a strip of LEDs, instead of buying a new mirror since they are $$$.
I am am trying to visualize it all coming together but it is hard! Will the dark vanity be ok with our dark flooring?
Here is a photo of our bathroom.
Here is a photo of our main color palette With the new flooring (Flooret Arbor) installed. This floor will be in the bathroom.
Here are a few inspirational photos I found on Pinterest. we would be doing a similar style of the dark vanity with wood top and vessel sink. However, our floors would be the dark brown wood like floors shown in the above picture. I worry it would be too much dark? But our walls will all be white, so maybe that will balance?
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PROChi Renovation & Design
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Comments (5)@Lotteryticket, the door to the bathroom is the end of the hallway that is not visible in the photo or on the drawing. That hallway is about 8' long by 44" wide. The bathroom is above a stairwell in a dormer so the wall are outside walls and the one at the foot of the tub is the space for the stairwell. We are stuck with this foot print unless we want to go big - and we really don't. This room also faces north so while I love the light that the window brings in, it does limit what can be done in the space....See MoreMaster bathroom help-crosspost from bathroom forum
Comments (19)olychick, thank you for taking a look. :) I'm relieved to hear you think a white shower pan is best. I am heading out now to find porcelain marble look tiles for the shower walls to pick up the gray as you suggested. I want a shiny finish to the walls. Tell me if you think that's a misstep. I am avoiding marble as I have a marble topped vanity now that is pock marked with etchings. As far as seeing myself in the vanity, yes, I think I will be able to do so. I was planning on a black framed mirror spanning the vanity. My current vanity is 32 1/4" high (as will be the new vanity) and when seated on my vanity stool my reflection is seen up to my chest. The only issue currently is that my knees are pressed against drawers. I failed to mention that I was thinking of using absolute black granite for the vanity top for two reasons: one being cost and the other being to avoid etching. Will doing so deviate too much from my inspiration? Lastly, I had the idea of applying pieces of beveled mirror framed by black molding floor to ceiling along the back wall and continuing behind the toilet (similar to this only floor to ceiling with the exception of base molding & crown): [Traditional Bathroom[(https://www.houzz.com/photos/traditional-bathroom-ideas-phbr1-bp~t_712~s_2107) by Northbrook Architects & Building Designers Michael A. Menn Thoughts? Suggestions? Thank you for reading this far. :)...See MoreRemodel of Awkward Master Ensuite Bathroom - Help with Shower&Vanity
Comments (3)Unless I am missing something a townhouse is an attached home and not stacked on top of other homes. It is not generally considered to be a multifamily dwelling - i.e. having multiple units within four exterior walls with shared plumbing stacks. Therefore plumbing lines aren't shared and bathroom and kitchen models are generally constrained in the same way detached homes or semi-attached homes are - i.e. most people for budgetary reasons keep toilets in same place and try to avoid major changes in pipes and drains. FWIW, I am in a high rise condo and converted my tub/shower combo to a larger walk in shower that followed the footprint of the original tub....See MoreNeed help with 8’X10’ master bathroom remodel
Comments (23)We redid our master bath not long ago, and I struggled with one long/two shorter mirror options. I found this process helpful: Assuming your big mirror is still in place - use painter's tape on the mirror to mark two outlines the size of the individual mirrors you might want above each sink. Cover the middle section between the outlines with a roll of kraft paper or butcher paper (or even the back side of a gift wrap roll) to simulate a blank wall in between them. If you have a long "Hollywood" bar light across the top of the whole thing, unscrew the bulbs in the center to simulate having two smaller fixtures over the mirrors. ( To be even more realistic, mock up a tower in the center to see what impact that has. You could stack up narrow boxes, or buy a $15 sheet of Styro insulation and fabricate the approximate shape.) Evaluate what you see in the outlined areas that represent two smaller mirrors. You may still see the shower and toilet as very close. You may find that you don't like the loss of reflected light in the middle, or that the tower casts shadows. Or maybe you'll like what you see and it will reassure you that change will be good! In our case, we stayed with the long mirror. We preferred the additional light, and found it more appealing in our space to use three new lights over one mirror over two sinks, rather than the rigid symmetry of two sinks/two mirrors/two lights. Good luck!...See More
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4 years ago
kitchen3920
4 years agoChi renovation and design and sierra400: I’m doing a similar bathroom. I see you used silver and gold finishes.
What finish would you call the gold you used and did you use chrome? I have chrome for everything but I haven’t purchased a mirror or lighting and was wondering if I could use some type of gold finish for them.
Hex is for flooring, truffle grout, white tub surround and torquay quartz, with darker wood vanity. Walls are SW sea salt.
kitchen3920
4 years agosierra400
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThaMK you all for your help. This is what I have so far... see below collage. We decided to remove the vanity and my husband is going to make one himself out of wood and it will be 6 drawers instead of 4 pictured here. We are looking for a similar wood color, light wood with darker knots that I think will contrast well with our dark wood print vinyl floors. We like a single vessel sink, this rectangle one by Koehler and the satin nickel faucet pictured.
For paint,.. I am still thinking of doing the whole room in SW Alabaster (including trim and ceiling). That is our trim color and kitchen cupboards color In the house. It is a nice warm white I think. BUT our bathroom is windowless, how will the Alabaster look there? Possibly too dingy? Has anyone used or seen SW Alabaster in a windowless room?
sierra400
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoOk I think we have figured it out! We decided to demo the shower now... that wasn’t planned initially but here we are. So, we are going with a black, white, and wood colors. Contemporary industrial look. We decided on SW alabaster paint for the walls, the wood vanity in knotty alder, vessel sink, black fixtures, we also purchased an OVE LED mirror, for behind the sink the backsplash will be white herringbone tile with charcoal grout. The shower will be 3x12” white subway tiles stacked vertically with white grout. We are going to build a recessed shelf in the shower that will match the vanity backsplash, it will be the herringbone tile with charcoal grout. We ordered a dreamline shower door with black matte hinges. I also found this fun artwork to hang on the wall opposite the vanity, I am going to just DIY it myself. It’s all coming together!
Tile pattern for the shower, the herringbone will be the recessed shelf. Rest of the shower will be the stacked subway tiles. The tiles are all bright white, this photo is not the best!
Nancy Ingram