Show me your bathroom

[whitemerlot]

I'm looking for ideas to renovate our small full bath and 3/4 master bath.

[ssmjlm]

There are renovation pictures of our master bath here: www.wivesunscripted.com/2012/03/27/master-bath-before-after/. We also have a 3/4.

[wawa]

We've only got one totally done, but the others are far enough along that you get the idea:

Master 3/4:


Hall Bath:




Actually finished downstairs bath:

[Susie]

We have a fully renovated half bath, and an unrenovated full bath: guinsyard.wordpress.com/tag/bathrooms/

[FoxInFiji]

We are just finishing remodeling two bathrooms but only the main bathroom is done enough to use. Of the two it's also our more budget friendly bathroom with the tile being only $2/sf.

[whitemerlot]

These are beautiful! I love all if them.

[peach]

Fox, what tile did you use in your shower?? Is it marble?

[whitemerlot]

Wawa- Can you tell me about your tile in the master 3/4 bath and what wall color that is?

[RoxMonster]

Beautiful! Our bathrooms (full) are both small and I would LOVE to have a large bathroom someday, preferably with double sinks and a jetted tub. Won't be happening in this house though.

[FoxInFiji]

Dec 10, 2012 19:27:01 GMT -5 peach said:

Fox, what tile did you use in your shower?? Is it marble?

No it's a decent/good looking fake. It's a glazed porcelain (so harder than ceramic) that is matte. The glossy porcelain was more noticeably fake. It's American Olean's Catarina Coliseum White. I think the color is being discontinued though. Daltile (they are owned by the same company) makes a very similar looking tile called Navelli in the Carrera Star color. I compared the two in my blog when I was picking out tile:



AO on the left and Daltile on the right. I picked the AO tile because I wanted a cooler color scheme in that room.

They are both about the same price and you can get them from any tile shop (actual tile store not HD). I got even better prices by finding a tile wholesaler that wasn't too far away that also sells retail. Through them the 12x12 shower tiles were $2/sf and the 18x18 floor tiles were $2.15/sf which are excellent prices.

[wawa]

Dec 10, 2012 19:42:32 GMT -5 whitemerlot said:

Wawa- Can you tell me about your tile in the master 3/4 bath and what wall color that is?

The wall color is SW Halcyon Green.

All the tile is from The Tile shop and is a mix of marble and glass.

The floor is Biltmore Delray. www.tileshop.com/product/productdetail.aspx?familyID=2148&recordID=5059271
Accent tile is Hamilton Biltmore Glass
www.tileshop.com/product/productdetail.aspx?familyID=1186&recordID=5040853
and the wall tile is San Dona 3x6.
www.tileshop.com/product/productdetail.aspx?familyID=2058&recordID=289377

I do not necessarily recommend actually using any of those tiles if you're doing your own installation. they were pretty much all a giant pain in the ass. Widely varying thicknesses being the biggest issue - which makes it really hard to create a smooth plane. It's kind of a expected problem with natural stone, but I think if you want to go that route there are better places to get it that have stricter controls.

Natural stone also is much harder to clean - you can't use the vast majority of bathroom cleaners on it.

But...OMG it is so pretty in person. So much depth and variety that we couldn't make ourselves say no.

[whitemerlot]

Dec 11, 2012 11:17:43 GMT -5 wawa said:

Dec 10, 2012 19:42:32 GMT -5 whitemerlot said:

Wawa- Can you tell me about your tile in the master 3/4 bath and what wall color that is?

The wall color is SW Halcyon Green.

All the tile is from The Tile shop and is a mix of marble and glass.

The floor is Biltmore Delray. www.tileshop.com/product/productdetail.aspx?familyID=2148&recordID=5059271
Accent tile is Hamilton Biltmore Glass
www.tileshop.com/product/productdetail.aspx?familyID=1186&recordID=5040853
and the wall tile is San Dona 3x6.
www.tileshop.com/product/productdetail.aspx?familyID=2058&recordID=289377

I do not necessarily recommend actually using any of those tiles if you're doing your own installation. they were pretty much all a giant pain in the ass. Widely varying thicknesses being the biggest issue - which makes it really hard to create a smooth plane. It's kind of a expected problem with natural stone, but I think if you want to go that route there are better places to get it that have stricter controls.

Natural stone also is much harder to clean - you can't use the vast majority of bathroom cleaners on it.

But...OMG it is so pretty in person. So much depth and variety that we couldn't make ourselves say no.

Thanks for taking the time to write this all out.