PIP Master Bathroom Update

[FoxInFiji]

We finished the last little bit of texture and paint touch ups and installed the lights.  Our cabinets were delivered and installed on Friday.  The quartz guys are coming to measure everything next week and install it the week of the 22nd.  Then we can install the upper cabinets and tile the backsplash.  We're getting sooo close!









DH's vanity and the "linen closet."  I'll be making some stained glass panels to go in those doors.  The panel on the floor covers the side of the upper cabinet after the quartz is installed. 





My vanity and storage cabinet.  The drawer in the tower has a cut out side and will store everything I use daily. 





I'm so glad you guys convinced me to go with the window sash/exposed screw pulls!  I was worried they wouldn't go with the more traditional/formal knobs but the polished nickel finish makes them look really nice and the exposed screws are just for show. 
 


In other D&R news...  We have doors!  The cherry 3 panel doors came in but 3 of the 5 jambs were messed up so we spent half a day fixing their mistakes.  They also put the wrong hinges on the doors (right color wrong style) but we were on such a tight timeline we didn't want to wait a couple weeks for new ones and have to start our sanding all over.  We got them all sanded, stained, sanding sealed, and polyed the last couple days.  DH and my FIL installed half of them yesterday but they had an issue with the master bedroom door.  We need to cut into the drywall and fix the rough framing.  *sigh*

I've been working hard on the trim with my dad every weekend and some week nights.  I've been on hand sanding duty for 4 hour periods of a time followed by helping my dad cut/machine sand some more pieces each trip.  We have all of the profiles cut now and have decided to pre-cut all of the returns to the wall.  So we need to be super accurate in our measurements but install will be a lot quicker and the corners will look great because we'll glue and sand them before finishing them.  My dad was bummed to find out how much hiring out the pre-finishing costs now.  I guess he wasn't planning to stain, sanding sea, and poly all of these pieces.  He said back when he had is business it would only cost $200 to hire out the finishing but we can hardly find anyone who uses oil based poly and the price is over $1K now.  So we're going to be building drying racks and a paint booth in his shop...maybe even buying a new spray gun to do the finishing ourselves.  It's going to be a ton of work but it will be done the way we want it.  There is no reason to pay a lot of money for kiln dried lumber if you're going to turn around and introduce moisture back into by using water based products on it.   

[ssmjlm]

It looks amazing. You guys have done an awesome job!

[emoflamingo]

Wow. That is AMAZING.

[SusanBAnthony]

Is the shower going to be open, or will there be a glass panel?

I am so in love with your cabinetry. Is it maple?

[mrs.jacinthe]

Gorgeous.

[downtoearth]

Is that ceramic tile on the floor?

Is the tile in the shower marble? Do you have a close-up of the shower tile?

[Deleted]

Looks awesome!

[salliekate]

That looks great! Love the floors!

[FoxInFiji]

Thanks everyone!  It's not done yet but we've come so far from this:


SusanBAnthony - Yes we're putting full height glass on the front of the shower and the half wall.  There will be a door with an operable transom above it next to the bench and a fixed panel next to that so we can hang towel hooks on the wall but not have the door hit.

The cabinets are solid cherry with just clear poly over them.  No stain.  They will slowly darken with age.  We have two big windows in there but since they face north not a lot of direct light so the color change will be gradual. 

downtoearth - It's all porcelain tile...well besides the glass accent tile.  The floor, the shower, the shower floor, and the tub face.  We want everything to be low maintenance and easy to clean so we went with porcelain and epoxy grout.  It took me a while to find a tile I liked that looked like marble, has a nice big size to limit grout lines, and find floor and accent tiles that went with it.  The shower tile ended up being a special order I had shipped from Denver to WI from Arizona Tile.  They don't sell tile in the Midwest but I was doing work in Denver and stopped to see a showroom.  Here's a picture and a link: 

...OMG it looks like they don't carry this line anymore!!!  WTH it was one of their more popular choices.  First that happened with our main bathroom tile and now this bathroom too.  Well I know the floor tile is still around.  It's from Crossville. 

 

[Deleted]

That's awesome! Love it!

[katecoop]

Gorgeous! I love the shower.

[jloww]

Your bathroom is already so beautiful - I LOVE the sconces.

[davescatch]

(picks jaw up off the floor)....WOWZA that looks incredible!

[FoxInFiji]

Apr 11, 2013 20:49:42 GMT -5 jloww said:

Your bathroom is already so beautiful - I LOVE the sconces.

Thanks they are RH Lugarno sconces in polished nickel and silk shades in bright white.  The RH lighting for this bathroom was the first thing I bought for this remodel.  I got everything at their last big annual bathroom sale where everything was 40% off.  They stopped doing them now and only go up to 30% off with their sales.