Before I answer the shiplap question, I'd like to give you some thoughts: 1. use a pocket door on the master bathroom toilet room. Trying to get in and around that swing in door in order to close it to use the toilet is going to be a pain. 2. Make sure the interior walls of bathrooms are well insulated so you don't get disturbed if one person is asleep and the other is using the bathroom. 3. Consider closing off the hall door to the 2nd bathroom, push that portion of wall inward. Move the vanity to line the new wall and put the door to that bathroom coming from that bedroom. It is not expensive to "T" into the water pipe to have the 2nd bath vanity moved and I'd only have one sink in that bathroom. Then move the laundry doors closer to the stairwell attached where the 2nd bedroom/bathroom wall is drawn. With the space that is created you can put much needed laundry room storage that you will appreciate once you're using that laundry area. As to shiplap . . . I dislike it entirely. I do like the ceiling with more narrow wood planks though.

Help! I need to pick colors for my walls and cabinets. The second picture below is of my Turkish Carrara slab and my tile. Im using 12x24 tiles. The first picture is of my inspiration vanity. I have the same mirrors, sinks, faucets, and wall sconces as shown. im also using Shiplap for the whole room. i jad envisioned white on the cabinets and walls…pure white or maybe Snowbound by Sherwin Williams. I dont want anything that throws pink or yellow. Ive even thought of gray cabinets and white walls. any help on paint colors would be greatly appreciated!

I dont think they have to match. I have white large slat blinds in my bathrooms with antique white walls to showcase our sage green vanities. I am a fan of white and off white walls, as they add brightness to any room. To use white or colorful walls is your personal taste.

[palm smacking forehead!] You all are right - that must be the original siding. I was assuming that the current cottage lap siding (narrow boards) was the 1948 original. The only work done on the house before we came in 2007 was a fireplace addition in about 1954. Can't imagine why someone would have put new siding on such a young house, but that's the only explanation that makes sense. Indeed, that is wonderful old wood. I'd love to paint it and use it, but it has been totally trashed by the contractor installing windows and electricians roughing in for porch lights and outlets. Worse still, the removed old wide siding was tossed in the dump trailer. There was a lot removed for the slider, but it's gone, so there isn't patching material where you see holes whacked out around the wiring for the lights. Look at the bottom 3' of the wall under the kitchen window where the insulation is exposed. Old siding removed and dumped - sob! I've included photos that show the whole wall, the narrow house siding, the holes in the porch wall, and side and front elevations of the house. Thank you all for returning me to my original plan for this house - keep historic elements as much as possible, and use classic designs and materials that will take the house decades into the future. Apparently I don't have enough of the old siding to save, so what would you recommend instead? And thanks for the tongue and groove suggestion for the ceiling. That was my original request, before the contractor suggested shiplap. I'm going to return to the T&G idea. I love the idea of haint blue for the ceiling and was already considering that. I think the choice of paint or stain will depend on what's put on the long wall. The posts and soffits will be white. The floor is wide plank LVP, with an old barnwood/driftwood mix of grays and browns, with lots of texture. Thanks for sharing your expertise and suggestions!