Bathroom renovations

Now that I have shown you the renovations we did on the living room, office and kitchen, I thought I’d show you the two bathrooms that we remodeled.  The bathroom renovations were not too complicated, they mainly just needed updating.  Well I take that back..the master bathroom layout made the bathroom feel small, so that need to be changed.

There was an open doorway from the master bedroom to the vanity area, (if you look into the mirror you can see the wall opening)  The only door in the bathroom was to the toilet and shower area, which made the tiny shower area feel even tinnier.  First thing I did was to take out the wall to toilet/shower area, that made a huge difference!  We jack hammered the floor to move the toilet over, which in turn made the shower a little bigger.  And here it is finished

What a difference taking that wall out made!  We added a pocket door for the bathroom in the original opening from the master bedroom.

Plus taking out the vanity and adding a second sink made sense for a master bathroom

Notice the new flooring? {In case you forgot, I had the pleasure of replacing what I had originally put in, you can see that story here}  The new floor is a porcelain linen look tile, that has very little movement in it 🙂

The cabinets are Hadley Maple Square from Lowes.  I love the color don’t you?  It’s a dark gray/black. To get the high end look for the countertops, without the price tag, I bought pre-fab marble countertops that are similar in color to Calcutta marble.  What is a pre-fab countertop? The term is short for prefabricated.  Meaning, the stone is sold in a pre-cut specific length, usually 96″, and a width from 21″-24″.  The edge detail is usually simple, a bullnose or an eased edge. They are great for using in a bathroom, it’s an affordable alternative to buying a whole slab. But the only thing about pre-fab countertops is the edge detail, it is glued together, which I am not a fan of.

Jenny from Little Green Notebook has the glued edge in her bathroom on a beautiful stone countertop. She is such a phenomenal creative designer, so that goes to show you that there is nothing wrong with this edge detail, it is personal preference

I personally like a seamless edge. And since the pre-fab countertops I bought came in a 24″ width, and I only needed 21″, it was enough leftover to have the fabricators cut off the glued edge and make a seamless edge

The two mirrors are medicine cabinets from Restoration Hardware. The faucets are Pfister Carnegie in polished chrome. I mixed the finishes in this bathroom but you can’t even tell.  The faucets are polished chrome, the light fixtures and door hardware are polished nickel.  The two finishes are similar, so to the naked eye you can’t even tell the difference. The wall scones are from Horchow

The sinks are under-mount by Kohler. I love the shape of them and they are a perfect size at 17 1/4″,  I use this sink in all my bath remodels

In the new shower area, I put a frameless shower door, I love how it makes it so much more open now.   Using the porcelain tile all the way up to the ceiling makes the space feel bigger as well.

The herringbone pattern in the shower pan for what ever reason, does not have the movement feeling like the whole floor did, so we left that portion in tack.

In the second bathroom, I kept the layout the same, and just updated the space with new cabinets, tile and fixtures.  Here is how it looked before

I used the same Restoration Hardware medicine cabinet for two reasons.  One, they have a flat unlimited delivery charge of $189, which when you buy one item it makes no sense, so I bought three. Number two, I just love the look and style of the medicine cabinet.  I love it so much that I just put one in my own house 🙂

We took out the soffit that held the fluorescent light fixture, and put in recessed can lights and wall scones. The wall scones are from Restoration Hardware, but I got them on CL brand new for half the price.

I used the same Calcutta looking porcelain tile in the tub/shower as the master bathroom.  And the same pre-fab countertops with the seamless edge detail. Oh and I forget to mention that the pre-fab countertops come with a back splash in the price.  I paid $250 for each of the pre-fab pieces.  But then I had to pay the fabricator to do the edge detail I wanted, do the cutouts for the sink and faucet and install it.

The house hasn’t sold yet..the feedback has been nothing but great reviews, and a lot of potential buyers are coming back 2 or 3 times to take another look. Which is frustrating because it gets our hopes up that they are really interested in putting an offer in, then they don’t. Last week I did a marathon staging for the house, to give potential buyers a better vision on how it would look with furniture in it. Being that it is in a 55 and older community, we have a smaller market for buyers, and they are just a tad bit pickier than what I had anticipated. I am hoping that all my hard work in the staging will pay off and we find a buyer soon!