Finally seeing some progress

The basketweave in the shower was installed yesterday.

The wall tile is going up, here you can see the thin black tile. Chair rail will also go in tomorrow.

The middle drawers have the wrong fronts, those will be changed. The drawers will all have flat fronts.

Dreaming about demo

The blog has been quiet because we really didn't know if we were going to do the bathroom or not. Then we found mold and decided there was no time like RIGHT NOW.

We started with a quick call to Shelly to turn our random thoughts into a cohesive look and she delivered! Now we have tile and an inspiration for the room.

The photo above shows the basket-weave tile for the shower, white subway tiles for the walls with a black pencil line next to the tile chair rail, and marble on the floor in the main area.

By moving some walls and shifting all the plumbing, we'll be able to have a 84" vanity with 2 sinks. We will be starting demo in the next few weeks. I can't wait!

Dreaming about tile

We're trying not to let this bathroom be the thread that unravels the sweater of improvement projects in the house, which is why we haven't started it yet.

But I've been busy pinning pictures of bathrooms on Pinterest. Which is nice, because when I look at all the pictures together I see the common themes.
I love a carerra marble bathroom:

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I like white tile to not appear fussy, but streamlined with a little accent like a pencil stripe in black or gray:

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A curbless shower makes the room feel bigger.

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So, that's as far as I've gotten with the bathroom planning, just looking at pictures, but no real decisions.

In the end it was quick

After months of agonizing about tile, we decided upon 2x9 carerra marble tiles, one of which can be seen above. This will match the marble counter on the island and its neutral so there's less of a chance we will regret an hour after installation.

It was ordered on Wednesday, we drove like maniacs on Saturday to pick it up before the store closed, and the tile installer is coming today!

Coming soon.. a plethora of paint-chips when the paint consultant arrives on Tuesday. The painters are scheduled for Wednesday.

In theory, the kitchen could be completed this week!

A boring post where I agonize over tile

I'm not in love with the blue tiles that I've seen so far and the plain white subway tiles seem so unimaginative.

Jeff and I went to Waterworks on Newbury Street this weekend to indulge in a little eye candy and then I saw this picture on Black Eiffel, and now I'm thinking about the back-splash with carerra marble tiles, to match the island.



I am sick of looking at tiles.

Tile

My samples arrived yesterday from Anchor Bay Tile. I choose 2 different blues of from Clayline Ceramic Subway Tiles:

And although I love the "Jeans" color, its a little too blue for the kitchen, and I think we're going to order the "New England" in a 3x6 Subway tile. Yes, plain-old-3x6 Subway Tiles, which my brother informs me is "So 2001". Its just not in the budget to get a custom size, but the color is a nice compromise.

Now that I have a tile I like, we can move forward with paint!

Thanks again to Steve at Anchor Bay Tile for informing me of his company.