For our master bathroom I mixed "real and steal" materials. Marble mosaic in calacata gold for the floor, chair rail (to end the tiles that I extended 12" up the wall, below) and the pencil border that frames the walking shower. The shower walls are in porcelain that looks exactly like calacata gold marble. It's funny the tile installer didn't know it wasn't marble until he saw the back of it. I bought the porcelain tiles at Classic Tiles in Brooklyn. The vanity is custom made.
The master bathroom is on the small side so I installed a programmable tile warmer, a luxury feature that will compensate for the lack of space.
Anyone who has ever remodeled a home knows that faucets are extremely expensive. For the shower faucets I simply left out unnecessary things such as volume control handles. Those things complicate life, really! The main shower handle does the volume control already so why buy an extra one? I got the big overhead shower at Lowe's and the handheld is a combination of one of those handles that come with the shower I just replaced the hose for one that you can connect separately and got the set of handles with its respective valves at a trade showroom. After doing all that math and all the search I became more savvy about plumbing and my hubby keeps telling me that I like to complicate my life. But when he enjoys a shower with more than one water source all hitting his body he gets to understand why I like to complicate my life and why I always choose to go through the less traveled road. Whatever you think it's possible it's because it is!
A shot of the floor and chair rail.
Our sons's bathroom. We finally got the oval shower curtain rod that was in back order (I don't stand when things are in back order) and replaced the L shaped rod we used for the previous photo shoot.
Photos (besides the second) by Robert Levi
