AW Master Bath Update

[FoxInFiji]

For those of you who are interested I have some new pictures of the master bathroom and I know how this board loves pictures.   







The quartz was installed the other day which means so were the sinks.  The cabinet guy had to alter the top two vanity drawers to fit around the sink and then he came to install the upper cabinets which sit on the quartz.  DH even got the backsplash tile cut and up last weekend while I was sanding trim with my dad.  Next it is grout the tile, sand, texture, and paint the exposed cement board around the tile, and install the faucets. 

I'm going on 2-1/2 months of sanding and cutting trim with my dad every weekend (plus a few week nights) and this should be our last weekend of that!!  Yay!  We also need to clean the entire shop (huge project in a 3,000 sf shop overflowing with stuff) this weekend so we can hopefully build drying racks, stain, and apply the sanding sealer next weekend.  My dad has decided we're going to build a 12' long trough to dip everything in the sanding sealer.  LOL now you can call us crazy.  We won't have near as much waste than if we sprayed it like we're doing the poly and the entire piece will be coated so there will be hardly any expansion/contraction after it's installed.  After we dip and let it dry then we still need to sand all of the exposed surfaces by hand before we spray with poly.  I will be happy if we can get it all installed by the end of June.  So much work! 

ETA since it's been a while the backsplash matches our tub backsplash only shorter.

[ktzmoh]

Beautiful beautiful beautiful! And what a labor of love.

[sierramist03]

Very nice I love all the storage!

[simpsongal]

Love the cabinets - what a project! Can't wait to see the trim. You're going all out for sure with the dip trough!

[FoxInFiji]

May 8, 2013 11:05:03 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

Love the cabinets - what a project! Can't wait to see the trim. You're going all out for sure with the dip trough!

I agree but if you know my dad he is the biggest type A perfectionist I know.  It's same process he did for my parent's trim and he's conviced that it's the best/easiest way to do it so I'm not arguing with the expert LOL.  It's been fun working so closely with him every weekend.  It's made us a lot closer.  My grandpa even came up to join in the fun one weekend.  Three generations of family hand sanding +3,000 lf of trim!  ...and that's only 1/3 of house so we get to do this all over again two more times.  When it comes to install my dad's planning to take off some time from work to do it all at once and I'm planning to as well.

[Deleted]

Ooh! Aah! Beautiful. I bet you are thrilled for it to all be done/

[wawa]

I love how this is coming together!

[FoxInFiji]

May 8, 2013 12:24:17 GMT -5 wawa said:

I love how this is coming together!

Oh you probably missed all my other updates when you were gone!  Did you see the rest of the bathroom, the master bedroom (so far), or how the floors turned out?

[wawa]

May 8, 2013 13:53:40 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

May 8, 2013 12:24:17 GMT -5 wawa said:

I love how this is coming together!

Oh you probably missed all my other updates when you were gone!  Did you see the rest of the bathroom, the master bedroom (so far), or how the floors turned out?

Nope!  Are they on flickr?

ETA: Answered my own question.

I could seriously spend hours admiring the wood of your vanity.  This one and the other bath.  So rich and beautiful.

[FoxInFiji]

May 8, 2013 13:59:25 GMT -5 wawa said:

May 8, 2013 13:53:40 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

Oh you probably missed all my other updates when you were gone!  Did you see the rest of the bathroom, the master bedroom (so far), or how the floors turned out?

Nope!  Are they on flickr?

ETA: Answered my own question.

I could seriously spend hours admiring the wood of your vanity.  This one and the other bath.  So rich and beautiful.

LOL I forget how we're linked all over the interwebs together. 

This master vanities and storage cabinets are a simple clear coat as well.  It's just older cherry so it has a richer, darker color.  The cabinet guys said these pieces were also very knotty (but they were all cut out) so there is a lot of burling and swirly grain patterns.  You can't see it in the pictures but the cabinet doors with the stained glass are super burly and are bookended to match the whole way down the door.  Pretty cool.  At the same time I better love them because they are the single most expensive thing we've bought in the whole 2 years of remodeling!  The 800 sf of hickory flooring even cost less but only because we finished and installed them ourselves. 

The doors are all stained and in as well.  I was worried that the unstained cherry would look a lot different than the stained cherry but it's all darkening and evening out.  It darkens a lot at first and then plateaus to a fairly uniform color so we started with a light stain color on the raw white cherry doors.  When DH took the door knob off the cherry door we've had on the main bath less than a year it was already noticeably darker and it gets no direct light. 

I'm in love with the big dresser style drawers on the large storage cabinet.  The drawers cost more than a pair of doors but they are soo much more useful.  I'm excited to put all of our linens in there.  I may or may not sit on the edge of the tub at night and dream about actually using this bathroom on a semi-regular basis.