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September 12, 2008

Master Bath roughing in

We’re now moving quickly on our upstairs master bathroom, after having been delayed by failing the first plumbing inspection.

As mentioned before, this is a 16' x 66' semi-detached brick house. There are windows all along the detached side. Because of the existence of the windows, it complicates the design of the rooms, since you couldn’t have (for example) a room that ends halfway in the middle of a window. Of course, one could move the windows, but that brings an added layer of expense and work that we didn’t want to face.

After allowing for a master bedroom for us at the front (with walk-in closet), a guest bedroom/office for my wife at the back, and a small office/computer room for me, and lining up the windows accordingly, that left us with a very large space for a master bathroom.

The bathroom will have two entrances; one public, through the hallway, and one private, through our master bedroom via the walk-in closet/dressing room.

Therefore there is more than enough room for a tub, separate stall shower, two vanities, and space for wardrobe or similar piece of furniture.

Any number of people, mostly contractors, have said in varying tones of voice ‘that’s a BIG bathroom’. One of the Mexican subs on the job went so far as to say ‘that’s bigger than my room’. Sorry! But this past weekend one of my wife’s friends came over and really like the luxury of all that space.

There’s not much more to say except to bring you plenty of pix!
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/bath

As of today the tiling is done, the toilet is working, as is the shower. The glass shower doors are on order, the tub is not yet working because the dealer ordered the wrong faucet configuration, and the same dealer has delayed the vanity tops. Nevertheless we hope to have this all straightened out early next week. This weekend we paint, and next week the electrician will be summoned to install all the fixtures, switches, and outlets.

The tile came from A&K; the floor tile was about $7 psft, the wall tile is the same but about $8 psft, and the glass ‘peopod’ tile $30 psft, less a contractor discount for all. The tile installer liked the peopod so much he decided to use it on all the corners and not just on the top of the wall tile and shower, as was originally planned, so we had to order another box, at $300.

We’ll update this when everything is finished.

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Comments

That looks great!
Any chance you'd share your tiler/contractor names? I just discovered our upstairs bathroom is leaking into the room below. Pretty dodgy looking ceiling about to crash to the floor. So we need to get ourselves organized ASAP to do a reno. And we'll include a standing shower not dissimilar to yours.

Posted by: tinmouse10 at September 14, 2008 9:01 PM

home

Posted by: slumlord at September 15, 2008 4:48 PM

tm, email me thru my profile. I don't want to mention the GC yet publicly until later in the process (I do mention the subs).

Posted by: denton at September 16, 2008 4:52 PM

Denton, Its looking really good. Where are you purchasing your fixtures?

Posted by: HomeSweetstuy at September 27, 2008 9:26 PM

HSS, don't make the same mistake I did (again). Brooklyn Kitchens. But we are getting there. More soon!

Posted by: denton at September 30, 2008 2:51 PM

what made you go for the green tile?

Posted by: miss priss at September 30, 2008 5:58 PM

miss priss, we didn't want to have a vast expanse of tile with no contrast so the tile store suggested doing this. They had the same thing in the showroom (different color) and we liked it. Someone said it looks like recycled Heinekin bottles. We like it (like Heineken too)!

Posted by: denton at October 2, 2008 5:05 PM