We used corian for our shower surround and our seat in the shower which matches our sinks....so we didn't have the color match issue. If you didn't want to use corian, you could always use marble or other stone.

Thanks for talking to me about it everybody. I canceled two meetings with design-build places but am keeping one meeting with the one I am most interested in. Don't want to waste people's time. I am also researching costs and maybe labor is much more expensive than I am guessing. I have a spreadsheet and have been plugging in what I think are decent costs, and am coming up to about $20k, with $6-8k for labor but those are guesses. I will have to get some estimates to see what real reality looks like. I know that people re-do bathrooms for not much money. If you look at people who flip houses and who rehab rental properties, they are not doing $30k+ bathrooms, but they are getting inexpensive materials and inexpensive labor. North Texan did your fixture prices include install or something? Let's say I want to put in a Delta Dryden faucet, roughly $300, and a Kohler Purist shower + valve, say $500, all chrome. I only have one sink and one showerhead. That leaves me $200 for a towel ring, towel bars and TP holder to keep it at $1,000. These are quotes from online sources: We'll call this Delta Dryden widespread chrome faucet $260. Here is a Kohler Devonshire shower kit (at $100) this seems really cheap!) and valve. $80. So figure $200 for the shower!! Round up to $500 for a basic sink faucet and shower trim + valve and that's Delta and Kohler. Of course I need to pay a plumber to install them. Maybe some caulk, etc. But those are very decent prices. Am I missing something? I know I'll add more if I add on something like a hand shower with its own valve and whatnot, but I functionally only really need a shower, and a sink faucet.

A sash kit with Dual pane and low-E would have similar performance to a triple pane unit. The STC rating would be better and much less loss of glass over an insert. Installation can be simple to comlex depending on who is installing and the condition of the existing opening . I rarely see them installed correctly by pros unless they are somewhat specialized in these, the ones they got right were because the openings and window needed no modification.

Take the new sash to a autobody shop have the French Vanilla paint computer color matched and the sash painted is about the only thing I could think of.