Thursday, September 21, 2017

Bathroom on second floor

This bathroom is shared by 3 rooms,, so basically by kids, grand parents and visitors. We had decided on a modern design with shower.

I have selected nice travertine porcelain tiles. Very close imitation, but glossy, so it would be easy to clean. I had actually chose big 12x24 tiles,, but when I got to the tile store, somebody had just bought the last stock of these tiles. Although I don't think they had enough stock for me. We were told more tiles were on the way which we ordered. When I got outside of the store, my car had a flat and my cell phone went out off power. Anymore signs against such big tiles?

For the floors I chose 12x24 tiles in mate finish, to prevent falls. These were difficult to set in but, we used plastic anchors to place and secure them.

Well we waited for 6 weeks, but when we called they told us the tile was never ordered in the first place, so more wait. Then 2 weeks later when we were installing the base and ready for the tile, the store has called us to offer to cut much bigger tiles for us since they were unable to restock. At that point we decided to go with smaller 6x24 tiles with interleaved pattern which looked gorgeous at the store demo. If they did cut the tile t would have uneven and cutting edges. In any case we were later very grateful for smaller tiles, which were so much easier to install.

As a base we went with acrylic, however we had to do some research to get a nice base which would accommodate teak floors inside as seen at the demo room at local Plomberium store. I then learned that teak floor cut to size would cost a little fortune. While browsing I came across teak mats at Homedepot for 100 CAD each. I bought 3 and they perfectly fit into the base. Yay. We installed the base into a cement bed, so it is very solid.

The walls in the shower were replaced with cement sheets and vapor barrier. And the shower niche using preformed plastic niche and tiling in.

For shower head I chose Moen for fixed and Hansgrohe raindance for hand held shower head and a switch button. Our shower and sink with a Moen handles as well and we decided to have a spout in the shower.

Shower doors are from Homedepot and they are frameless and very heavy. We had to fortify the walls to support the door, and needed 3 people to install. 

We decided to keep our existing wooden vanity, but to tile the counter top with marble like tiles and adding pull out wire 2 tier drawers inside.

The mirror cabinets and lights from IKEA Godmorgon collection. The mirror in the middle, I wanted it finished lower then the sides. So I went to a local glass store and the guy cut the mirror for me for 80$.

The toilet  is from Toto Aqia dual flush model which we already had in another bathroom in Colonial white.

To make the bathroom look modern we removed an arch.

This is the shower finished but vanity and mirror cabinets still to go. We had this paint paper on the walls which we removed and just painted in a natural white semigloss paint.






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