Master Bathroom Remodel
We are currently renovating our master bathroom, and I am struggling on a couple details. We will have two different size vanities on different walls, see picture, and I am not sure what to do for mirrors so it doesn’t look odd. Also, should we match the shower floor tile to the bathroom floor so it has more of a flow to make the space feel larger? The space is not a large space, and I would like to do what we can to make it feel larger. What size floor tile would you suggest? Are there any trends or must do things that we should make sure to consider so we don’t regret it later? I have also attached a picture of the cabinet we are using for the vanities (sand). Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
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Theresa Peterson
4 months agolast modified: 4 months ago
hryale
4 months agoThank you for all the great advice and questions to think about. We do plan to do a full length niche in the shower on the wall adjoining water closet (toilet). Picture attached for idea, but not exact, as we won’t have the storage on the outside of the closet. Also planning to do a shaving shelf, and may skip the corner ledge completely.
Regarding the vanities, my husband wants separate vanities, so we did what we could with the space. Also, the neighborhood we live in, people like separate vanities and water closets (toilet in room).
Regarding putting the shower where we currently have the water closet, my husband wants a larger shower than this will allow because of the window. He says he doesn’t care but sure has a lot of wants. Ha. I did draw it first with the water closet with window, but that got shot down because of the limit to shower size.
Regarding storage, we have a large linen closet in our laundry room, so we only need storage in our bathroom for our towels and toiletries, not sheets and beach towels.
We will likely put a pullout style hamper in the linen tower that is connected to the 42” vanity and we will just have a trash can in the water closet. We don’t need a trash can at the sinks. The towel hooks will most likely go on the wall of the water closet/shower. We don’t want bars, we will just use two hooks one on top and the other below.
I am not at all a designer, but have attached a picture of the layout from a 3D perspective that I did real quick to get a visual. The window is off and it isn’t perfect but does give an idea, Originally I wanted to do a 42” and 48” vanity both with linen towers, however the spacing doesn’t work so we opted for the 42” with linen tower and the 60” without. The picture still shows the 48” and LT. We will have pocket doors on water closet and main entry door so there are not doors all over the place.
For countertops we will go with a marble look. I will post another post with a few other pictures of some of the tile we are looking at, but nothing has been decided, and the pictures don’t look exact. We did take the cabinets door to compare with the tiles.
Thank you so very much for all your suggestions. There are so many things to think about and I am overwhelmed.
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4 months agoThis is one of the options we are looking at for tile. The left being the shower niche, top right walls and bottom right floor of shower and main floor.
We are also looking at the hexagon tile for the floor as well.
hryale
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