The frame is maple plywood and the vanity face/doors/drawers are solid walnut. He basically followed this modular build (there is a PDF in the post with detailed instructions) but used ledgers for support instead of brackets. He had to start over completely from scratch (ugh and buy more wood) and build the vanity in place instead. My husband built an entire vanity frame in the garage and then we could not, even after removing the door frame and gouging the walls, slide it or drop it into place because our walls were bowed inwards up above and the shower tile prevented a straight on approach. Vanity: We really wanted a floating vanity to open up the small space as much as possible, but our wonky, crooked walls plus tiny room proved very problematic. They are a matching bright white with subtle rust-colored veins, so they worked really well, but if given more time I would have preferred bullnose subway tiles for a more streamlined look. Fragile mitered edges made me nervous so I frantically had to track down a solution for the box surround and ended up with marble tiles from Lowe’s. Ideally I would have designed a long rectangle niche and made sure the tile could be centered, but this corner square was the best we could do. My change came too late for any moving of studs for a more intentional location. My initial plan was a minimal floating marble shelf like this but I chickened out thinking our shower was too cramped and this wasn’t practical (in hindsight now that I’ve had a chance to use our shower, it would have been fine so if you are thinking of going for it, DO IT!). Shower niche: I think my one regret, besides remodeling a bathroom and getting a puppy at the same time haha, is that I didn’t embrace a recessed shower niche from the beginning and then didn’t have time to design it correctly when I added it last minute. The color leans coppery and has been the reference for all other metal finishes in the room – unsuccessful at times, but I tried! And I am so, so happy with the quality and performance. Shower trim: The shower trim took a few tries to get right (see my previous post on modern shower trim kits for the contenders) but I’m so glad we decided to spend a little more for the Moen Align in Brushed Gold. Grout is a light gray (Laticrete Light Pewter). Shower: The shower wall tile needed to be something simple that wouldn’t compete with everything else, so we went with basic white 3″ x 12″ subway tiles by Daltile stacked vertically. We started with a blank slate and ended up with this wild orange delight… So this was a full gut renovation, down to the studs and floors joists, where we hired out a lot of the work (plumbing, drywall, tile, glass, counter and roofing) – very different than our usual approach. I clearly don’t prefer to rip old stuff out for no reason, but the major structural repairs required big “ripping out” regardless, and what remained of the original bathroom was nothing special. A rotting subfloor and an entire branch of messed up plumbing were the nagging reasons for this renovation, both very common failure points in a 60 year old home. See here for the glamorous before we lived with that for 8 years with only a cheap floor bandaid update. All sources are compiled at the end so head on down if you’re looking for a link and not details.įor reference, this is the ensuite bathroom to our primary bedroom. I’m finally finding time to share the bathroom renovation that we finished last November! Buckle up, it’s gonna be long one as I try to condense an 8 month long project into one rambling post.
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