Bath Reno #6: Modern in Carroll Gardens
Today bathroom reno post comes verbatim from the owner…This bathroom is part of one floor of our place in CG that’s been done in a totally modern/contemporary style. It’s a newly constructed room…there wasn’t a bathroom on this floor previously. We did 60% of the work ourselves and had a talented friend do what we…
Today bathroom reno post comes verbatim from the owner…This bathroom is part of one floor of our place in CG that’s been done in a totally modern/contemporary style. It’s a newly constructed room…there wasn’t a bathroom on this floor previously. We did 60% of the work ourselves and had a talented friend do what we couldn’t (tiling, electric, trim). Everything aside from the faucets/sink were purchased or crafted in Brooklyn. Here’s where sourced everything from:
– Kohler Purist lav faucet/shower & Porcher sink from Davis & Warshaw;
– Frameless shower from RB Wyatt;
– Custom vanity and shelf unit by Laurel Woodworking on 13th street;
– Toto Toilet from Garfield (had a bad experience with them);
– Honed slate countertop from stone place in E. W’burg by the Kosciusko Bridge;
– Heated floor system/thermostat and Alinea lighting ordered online.
All in all, I’d say this was all under $8000.
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I love the way the walls sort of “lift” the ceiling up off the floor of this bathroom. Very nice. Also love the fact that there’s an entrance that doesn’t require you to stoop.
why not a medicine cabinet and maybe recessed lighting? or is that a cabinet?
in general, where’s the storage? not crazy about sinks with no cabinet underneath.
this doesn’t seem like a bathroom a woman could get ready in. ie: blowdryer, toiletries, makeup, tampons?, etc.. where is it all?
1:29 PM
As 3:29, wrote, there are practical reasons…ALSO, NYC code does not allow wood floors in bathrooms go figure. You can have them in a kitchen of course. We had a friend, this is a good number of years ago, who had a rollout synthetic floor set down without adhesive over a wood floor in a bathroom because it was being inspected. The rollout floor came up afterward.
A friend of ours who passed away a few years ago had a designer who insisted on putting leather floors down…in the bathrooms!…in his Palo Alto place. This was way before leather flooring was being thought of. Was a one-off that was very new at the time.
Nice bathroom, Kids. Ultimately, I prefer yours to the Bed-Stuy snowflake bathroom. I kind of find their snowflake motif nice on the floor but the diagonal Mogen Davids on the wall overdid it for me.
I’m wondering how the sink is put down and if water seeps in under it on the counter.
Looks very nice.
I’m curious: is the layout this shape because you fitted in closets facing into the adjoining rooms on other side of the WC enclosure?
That said, when are you coming over and redoing one of our bathrooms?!
FG/TGL
I think you’ve made the right call, Mr. B. I enjoyed the bathroom reno features for a while, but they were getting long in the tooth.
To 1:29… Yes, there’s a very practical reason not to extend hardwood floors into a bathroom or a kitchen..the moisture factor. Water can damage a wood floor, but it won’t damage tile. My kitchen/dining/living room is open plan, but my kitchen floor is tiled, and the rest of the space is oak flooring. It may look strange to some, but there are ways to unify spaces with different flooring to minimize the contrast. I’m happy with it.
Boy, this is getting creepy…
Until Mr. B. notices and gets rid of the trash, let me point out that none of the so-called “Brownstoner” posts have been his since the post at 1:07. It’s pathetically easy to spoof even a registered person here. If you put the mouse under “Brownstoner’s” uncharacteristic posts, you see there are 2 spaces before the name. The real Mr.B does not have spaces. Unfortunately, that’s all it takes for the program to consider it an entirely different(and legit) log in.
I loved this feature, even though I am not looking to reno a bathroom, it was fun to see other peoples creativity and design. Very much like the “kitchen with an island” feature you did a month or so ago. It keeps the site varied and interesting. I hope you do something like this at least every once in a while.
I like the contrast of materials and the real attention paid to storage. Nice work.