Thanks Rookie!! Pinch -- the vanity was an existing honey oak vanity that we stripped and stained black. The countertop is uba tuba. The paint color is all the same just photographs differently in different light -- it's Laura Ashley Taupe 6. The bathroom was done on an extreme budget. All tile was from Lowes and was dirt cheap...the brown bricks were the most expensive at $5 per square foot, the rest was under $2 per square foot. The field tiles were Sienna Almond -- in 12" x 12" and 6 x 6. The flooring will also be from Lowes at about $3 per square foot. Towel bars also came from Lowes (are you sensing a theme here) at about $35 each. Mirrors were an incredible Hobby Lobby find -- 50% off, $50 each although I had also picked up some lovely ones from Kirklands that would have looked great in the space but switched to these at the last minute. Our main goal in redoing the masterbath was to remove the cultured marble shower panels and eliminate the door. We wanted to widen the shower door for wheelchair access. Also, our countertop was cultured marble and had a lot of crazing around the drain. We found a good price on the uba tuba. Good luck on your bathroom!!

I'm generally not a BLUE person either. My entire house is warm earth tones-- peach, gold, wood, russet. What I liked about the Utica tile was that even though it was blue, the turquoise and gold center were warm. The love bird mural picks up the gold in the Utica tile. We don't intend on selling this house so I wasn't looking at resale value in the remodel.

bronswynsmom,you really made me chuckle. Well, I'll refine it to I don't have courage when it comes to color. I've dealt with all the items you mention and more. Come to think of it, I once had all the windows in our living room taken out and made larger when DH was on a 3-day business trip. He survived that, but painting oak would put him on the floor. Maybe I don't have imagination with color. Whatever it is, you guys have it, and I appreciate it. The clear shower curtain doesn't work, huh? Dang! avesmor, thanks for the photos of Raffia Basket. It looks lovely on your walls. I tried to calibrate my monitor but it doesn't seem to be working. Maybe I'll get a can of something more dramatic too and surprise DH when he gets home tomorrow. Thanks so much, both of you.

We did look into it, but in a gated HOA and the matter of cutting a hole right smack in the middle of the attic storage space above the bathroom that would not only need a specified roofing company but render the storage unusable for anything but small narrow things that could be maneuvered around the exhaust fan stuff...yeah, ridiculously expensive and not sure why the developer never considered just putting fans in when the place was being built back in 1977 and completed 1978. The bath vanity where the sink was and the counter top on the cabinets below the bathroom window was this weird brown abstract pattern laminate, I had a cast iron tub put in with a tile surround and frameless glass slide doors after the fiberglass monobody shower and tub side wall had been previously patched and was cracking, the guy hired for putting up the tile nearly sealed my cat inside the wall but after discovering her in there and removing the drywall scraps of which none were attached to studs the cat was saved and the drywall was done correctly...the previous owner had the wax ring on the toilet crack and before I had the ceilings scraped of popcorn to smooth texture you could see where the toilet fell through the floor if you looked up at the ceiling in the front hall...the 70s were not the best time frame if one is looking for developers and builders making wise decisions in home building. :p