Renovated my bathroom to bring it back to the 1930s
full album renovation here —— Edit: post was locked as I forgot to add more detail. I wanted to renovate my bathroom on my DIY budget. I’m located in Ontario Canada and we had a lockdown in spring where all stores were closed and I thought it was the perfect time to start this reno. I spent about $4000 on it. I was able to reuse the pedestal sink and the shower glass door, which probably saved $1000! The toilet is a Toto Drake II. The sink faucet is Kingston Brass cross centre set in brushed brass. The paint is Farrow & Ball Bancha. I used a Schluter Kerdi system in the shower and basic 6” subway square tile from the big box. The floor I bought sheets of white hex porcelain mosaic and cut out my own pattern, filled the gaps with black, to get a vintage-look mosaic floor that’s true to the homes age. I ran into a lot of challenges, including finding some galvanized pipe that needed replacing. I had to wear a lot of hats - electrician, plumber, tiler... I relocated the vanity light and learned a lot about electrical. I used Sharkbites to convert a small galvanized pipe section to PEX and join to existing copper. I’ve tiled a few times before but this was the most intricate job I’ve done. Lots of time was spent planning the pattern. For anyone wondering how to start, I recommend printing off a hex pattern on paper and then using a sharpie to colour in the pattern to your taste/dimensions. A word of caution for DIYers trying the Schluter Kerdi system for the first time... it works great but make sure you use the right mortar!! You’ll see one of my failed steps in the album. The big box store I bought the kit at didn’t have the KerdiSet brand, so I asked an associate what to use and they gave the wrong advice. I went to a specialty store (the one I actually ordered the hex tile from) and bought it there. Learn from my mistake and time wasted on that step! ——— I live in a 1931 Tudor heritage home. Our main floor 3 piece guest bathroom was very loud 1990s style. I gutted it during the pandemic lockdown and brought it back to the 1930s to fit our style and the rest of the home. It was a challenging project but I’m very pleased with how it turned out. I did a custom hexagon mosaic tile pattern by individually cutting out black tiles and placing them inside the white ones. I made DIY wainscoting with plywood and poplar rails. Painted everything Bancha green by Farrow and Ball. New subway tile shower with Kerdi system, brushed brass and matte black finishes. I also did another mini-DIY within this project by making my own medicine cabinet. I used the existing cavity in the wall (and resized it), a vintage gold mirror, and added sliders to make for a practical but hidden medicine cabinet. We didn’t like how most were multi-door mirrors as they didn’t seem to fit the space. However in a small bathroom we desperately needed storage so this was the creative solution we came up with. Overall learned a lot and happy with the turnout. Hope you enjoy the album!
Master Bathroom Remodel. Completely gutted to the stud walls and rebuilt for about $20K. Before, After pics, budget, product links, floor plan and renderings included.
Album here! My mom wanted a new bathroom and so I did my best. This took around ~130 hours and $6k Canadian. This was my first time doing the majority of the work involved so I made a lot of mistakes along the way. While grey isn't really my thing it's what she wanted and she really likes it. This took place over about 6 weeks as I could only work on weekends and the odd hour during the evening on weekdays. I learned so much from doing this and can't wait for the next one.I'm in Ontario, Canada. CostElectrical - $300 Fan - 80 Foil Tape - 5 Duct - 10 LED Strip light - 40 LED Driver - 50 Cover plates - 15 Dimmer - 20 Timer - 20 Pot Lights - 30 Wire - 30 Tile - $1045 Hexagon tile - 225 Thinset - 40 Grout - 95 Profiles - 120 Shower Tile - 240 Floor Tile - 100 Wedge spacer - 50 Tile spacer - 15 Glass mosaic - 120 Sealer - 40 Framing - $205 2x4 - 30 Insulation - 60 Vapor barrier - 35 Plywood - 20 Tuck tape - 10 Floor screws - 20 Wood screws - 30 Trim/Paint - $275 Silicone - 20 Caulk - 5 Baseboard - 100 Painters tape - 10 Trim - 20 Floor register - 20 Paint - 100 Drywall - $167 Drywall - 65 Mud - 35 Tape - 15 Screws - 20 Sandpaper - 10 Sealer - 20 Corner bead - 2 Fixtures - $1170 Valve trim - 70 Shower head - 70 Mirror - 250 Faucet - 160 Toilet - 240 Towel bars - 80 Shower door - 300 Waterproofing - $920 Kerdi Niche - 100 Kerdi Shower kit - 575 Drain - 55 Ditra - 120 Thinset - 30 Corners - 40 Plumbing - $220 Mixing valve - 120 Pex/Fittings - 35 Abs/Fittings - 35 Shutoff valve - 15 Supply Line - 10 Wax ring - 5 Vanity - $1000Bin Rental - $300 ToolsPower -SDS with tile scraping bit -Impact driver and drill -Sawzall -Multi tool -Brad nailer -Circular saw -Laser level -Mixing drill Plumbing -Pex crimper -Pipe cutter Tile -Wet saw -Angle grinder with diamond blade -Tile levelling wedge crimp -Grout removal tool -Grout float -Trowels
We're first time homeowners in the Pacific Northwest area and knew we had to redo our bathroom when we moved in. First time doing a remodel and dealing with contractors. We got 3 bids, at 20K, 30K and 40K roughly, ultimately going with the people who can start immediately (lessons learned- red flag!) and the lowest cost. We hired these licensed contractors to start doing work at the end of November, they said they'd be done by Christmas but they're still working on it now. This is our only bathroom and I just wanted to post all the headaches we've gone through here, maybe seek any advice if we still can, and also help anyone who may run into a similar problem. At what point can you ask for a discount from your contractor based on these issues? Before/After http://imgur.com/gallery/I6zFG9s Photos http://imgur.com/gallery/TC0b35K Tiles: Subway tiles, Merola Mosaic Hexagon Tiles from Home Depot Vanity: Stanhope 36" from Home Depot Bathtub and fixtures: Kingston Brass The issues:
They hired subs to work on the tiling and they did an awful job. I asked them to redo the tiles that were sticking out, uneven, crooked. We asked them to redo the niche tiles because it was cut with a dull blade. This has been extremely stressful because I am still not 100% happy with it but short of ripping the whole thing out, I don't know what else could be done.
The tub was not level. They initially installed this tub angled toward the wall. My fiance asked them about this because he checked with a level after they left that day. They said they do this to prevent water from splashing out, and we foolishly believed them. After all the tiling was set and we were able to use the tub, we noticed pooling of water on one side. We asked them to relevel the tub so they had to rip out the bottom row of tiles.
The vanity lights were too high initially, we had asked them to move the mirror because they installed it way too high but they forgot to move the vanity light down as well. We asked them to fix this.
Plumbing. The shower fixture valves were not set at the correct depth causing the fixtures to stick out. we found this out after they completed tiling, but luckily they were able to go from the closet wall in the back. Upon inspection, they used zip ties to support the valves. NOT OK. We told them to use metal straps, when they said "oh that was just temporary," still not sure if this support is ok. Also, they scratched our brand new fixtures during install!! They're replacing it. But still, ugh.
Asbestos. I'm very concerned that when they cut our vent to make it larger, they exposed asbestos. I'm planning to hire a remediation company to come take a look after they finish with our space. Of course get it tested first. This is a big concern for me.
Other minor things we will be asking them to fix: bathroom fan seems to be wired incorrectly/blowing air out and not in, they will fix. Pocket door guide not installed yet. Door lock is crooked (but whatever it works). Some hardwood flooring is chipped outside our bathroom (not sure if they can fix this?!). I feel like there's more but I'll just let this go, they're willing to do all these fixes.
The contractor who is the owner of the business hasn't been around since week 2 of the project when he told us he'd be here every day. This resulted in us doing all this QA/QC work. We have about 15% or 20% left in payment and we don't know what to do. Obviously won't pay them until they're done with the work but we didn't hold back enough to have others redo the work. The subcontractors who are here are redoing all the fixing/rework per our request but this would've probably be swept under the rug if we hadn't noticed or brought these issues up. Plus, we are so tired... And it's our only bathroom. We've had to rely on our friend for over a month. This is just me venting at this point, it's been stressful.
Preparing for new home construction and trying to make decisions on master bathroom design. Pictured is the layout, but we will have white cabinets, a rectangular drop-in tub and there will be a seat in the shower. I want to use black hexagon tile somewhere. On the shower walls only? If so, what to do with shower floor, bathroom floor, and tub surround (ours will be tile all the way up to the tub, no apron like in the picture)? Or would it be better to do small black hex on the shower floor and larger on the room floors. Then white subway tile on the shower walls and the tub surround? Crazier idea: Wood look tile on the floors, black hex on shower floor, white subway tile on shower walls and tub surround. Wish I knew Photoshop. This is the only room that's threatening my marriage! https://preview.redd.it/f6w2r31ul5a61.png?width=976&format=png&auto=webp&s=a6d2859f72eb8e3e27a37ba7af29eeafb6a3b77c https://preview.redd.it/7ujzthctl5a61.png?width=882&format=png&auto=webp&s=05f9c0ac0e9a09eb23c67eddfd1e4d1069bc0b72
Really struggling with planning a bathroom remodel. Need help on tile.
I'm redoing my bathroom and really struggling with choosing showewall/floor tile. I really like this blue tile for my shower, but I'm not sure if I also want this on the floor and all the way around the bathroom (half-wall). I was considering this for the shower and the same tile in a medium gray for the floor, but wonder if that is too much hexagon pattern? Does anyone have tips or tricks for selecting matching types of tile in small bathrooms? Is there any tool I can use to plug this tile in and see what it might look like? https://preview.redd.it/9g3dxxet3xd61.png?width=531&format=png&auto=webp&s=4b5694386d7408ebb1ef4be26e0cfbe82ec46245
Grout/Caulk/Weep holes - I'm confused and need clarification on standards
TL:DR at bottom I have a full bathroom reno starting next month and have been doing tons of research everywhere I can to apply the right materials and methods. I do have a contractor coming to install everything and recently had a discussion on tiling the showeTub. The plan is to use the wedi system behind the walls and wedi niche's to waterproof the walls. The contractor normally grouts everything, all the transitions (corners, niche's). Most of what I have read says to caulk these transitions and apply NO grout. Is this the general consensus, grab the matching silicon caulk from the manufacturer and use that in the corners? I have included a link to the grout and caulk I was considering buying, any other recommendations are welcome. Floor and shower grout: https://www.lowes.com/pd/MAPEI-Ultracolor-Plus-FA-25-lb-Charcoal-All-in-One-Grout/1000127941 ---I realize floor grout should be sanded but this claims to be ok for floors to. Also considered the keracolor sanded grout for the floors. Matching caulk: https://www.lowes.com/pd/MAPEI-Mapesil-T-10-1-oz-Charcoal-Silicone-Caulk/1000138785 **Here's the bigger question, weep holes: Now I have been reading about folks installing weep holes so water can drain from behind the walls and prevent mold. Should we not be sealing the corners and all the transitions with caulk and include weep holes? Also read about folks grouting just the bottom to let water drain, I'm flat out just confused about this. We have large shower tiles (https://www.lowes.com/pd/Anatolia-Tile-Hudson-Brilliant-White-Glossy-8-in-x-24-in-Glossy-Ceramic-Wall-Tile/1001038722) and hexagon floor tiles (https://www.tileshop.com/products/black-hex-porcelain-floor-tile-10-in-680185#product-detail-details1). I planned on purchasing this mortar thinset for the shower and floor as well. (https://www.lowes.com/pd/MAPEI-Large-Format-Floor-and-Wall-50-lb-White-Powder-Thinset-Medium-Bed-Morta1000698138) Any major objections to the thinset and using it for both walls/floor? I genuinely appreciate any input. As a complete novice, I have been trying to read/research as much as I can to be knowledgeable. I understand the contractor is a resource but he generally says grout is grout, get what you want/prefer. TL:DR: The tiles have been bought but I wanted to clear the other variables before purchasing the grout, thinset, caulk, and make sure the tile is installed correctly. Caulk and leave weep holes or just caulk? Avoid grout in the corners/niche's? wedi showerproofing behind tiles. Thank you in advance. Edit: forgot to ask about sealing the grout, seen mixed bag on this. Is it recommended to seal the grout even if it says you don't have to? Seems like its an easy enough thing to do for extra protection against discoloration/mold. Update: contacted wedi through messenger. They said, TCNA guidelines call for 1/4” space between all change of planes, where tile meets tile. They are to be caulked, no weep. This included the built in niche as well.
I had just gotten back from boarding school and decided I wanted to take half a tab on Thanksgiving to make me more sociable and to bond with my family more. I got 6 tabs the night before, it was supposed to be 7, but I didn't care. I hadn't tripped in so long that I decided to just let it slide because I was so excited to finally do it again. I went back to my room after getting my tabs, and cut one of the tabs in half, and then the 2nd half in half in case I wanted to increase the strength later. I went to bed since it was 1 AM and I had to be up at 9 to get everything ready for Thanksgiving. These were gel tabs by the way. Day 1 9:30 AM My dad woke me up, and to my surprise mostly everything was already ready. I put half a tab under my tongue and just let it dissolve into nothing like usual. I helped clean the house, and made sure everything was in order. 10:30 AM The tab started to hit me and I felt a little lighter than usual, and the feeling of breathing felt so refreshing. Colors were slightly more saturated than usual, everything sounded very clear, and things looked sharper. I decided to take a shower and the hot water felt amazing going down my body. I looked at the floor and saw the usual patterns starting to appear on it. My bathroom floor is a very bland beige tile floor that has strange texture to it. The parts that go down slightly into the ground seem as if they brighten up and become the same elevation as the rest of the tile. I close my eyes and see a flat black. Usually when I close my eyes I see a few colors swirling around, a very tiny pattern in the center, and some visual fuzziness. When the blackness starts, I call it "setting stage" for the fractal patterns. I get out of the shower, get dressed, and realize my aunt is here. I help her get her cooler and chairs out of her truck, and put them on my pool deck. I ask my dad how he wants the chairs set up and he says, "Just put them by the tables but not right next to them. The foods gonna clutter the table, you know what I mean?" I just didn't respond for a second, and then realize he asked me a question. I quickly correct myself and nod. This makes me feel a little frightened, but I get over it realizing he didn't really notice since he was busy cooking. I decide it's fine, and stupidly take the rest of the tab knowing I'm not going to be the center of attention. 11:45 AM The rest of the tab hits me super hard. I didn't realize how powerful my guys new tabs were. This one tab was probably the best acid I have ever had. Some more of my relatives arrive at my house and I help them unload their things. I try to help with things that obviously only need one person and realize how strange I'm acting. I decide to pass it off as nervousness to be back if I'm asked about it, which I never was. I go back in my room to watch YouTube, and just seclude myself for a while. I feel terrible for doing it, but the conversation outside is dull and awkward anyways. I wouldn't have helped one bit. 12:30 PM My aunt comes in my room to talk to me, and I pull off acting sober. Around her it's easy, I always feel like I can talk to her about anything so talking to her on acid is just like talking to a best friend. I just feel comfortable around her. She tells me that the crab is ready, and I go outside to eat some. The palm trees on my porch are shimmering, and look as if they're vibrating. The forest just outside my porch forms kaleidoscope patterns in the trees and the clouds turn into these strange triangle patterns. Much like the kaleidoscope patterns in the trees, but different. My uncle tries to engage me in a conversation, and it becomes awkward very quickly. I don't know him very well anyways, and decide its for the best since I'm gonna be super weird if I try to talk more. I realize how cool it is outside, and then it suddenly feels hot. I start to sweat just slightly, and look to see if anyone else is too. It's just me, and I decide to eat a crab to look normal or something. I eat a single crab and the flavor is amplified so much that it doesn't taste very good anymore. I usually like stone crab a lot. I go back into my room, and the A/C cools me down again. I realized how much my attention span had deteriorated as I zoned out thinking while watching a video about plate tectonics. 2 PM My dad asks me what I'm doing and I show him this video of a baby meeting her dads twin. He says I should hang out with the family and I agree with him and hang out with my aunt. I help her cook mashed potatoes and engage in a deep conversation with her. We talk about how my new school is, and what I could do with the opportunities it will give me. Usually I would think this conversation was very mundane, but I was just happy to talk to my aunt and make her happy. My dad walked in with a huge sirloin tip and the aromas gave me chills. I had never smelled anything so delicious before, but I couldn't eat it yet. My other family members came in with more food and I set up another table. It seemed so complex to do for some reason, and this made me nervous again. I made myself a huge plate since my appetite was returning, and immediately ate the sirloin tip. It was so incredibly juicy, and the steak sauce paired with it created an extremely succulent flavor that had never been present in the sirloin tips my dad had smoked before. My other aunt also created a dish that had a variety of seafood, peppers, and shellfish in it. I decided to try it since I had been told about this before we ate, and it tasted incredible. Everything I ate had a new taste to it, the things I had considered to be rather dull in flavor had transformed into a unique delicacy. I adored the texture of the chunky mashed potatoes and gravy me and my aunt had made, and the way it felt when chewing it up. I decided to start a conversation by commenting on how good the food was. I felt like I had more control again, and that I wasn't going to look strange, and I was right. We all started talking about many things, and joking with each other. I felt so happy to have started this, and talked a lot. I joked around with my little cousin whom I usually don't like, and saw how much he grew since I last saw him. It made me feel old, even though I'm only 16 years old. It showed me how fast time progresses, and how fast things can change. 3:30 PM I decided to go back to my room, and watch videos again. Nobody bothered me for a while, and I let myself come down from the trip. I thought intensely about my family and what they meant to me. Even though so many of my friends have come and gone, they've been there through all of it, and I have the nerve to drop acid around them? The realization made me feel like a shitty person, but I can't take the molecule out of my brain, so I made a deal with myself to never do it again. No matter what I think, LSD will not help me socialize. It can help me bond though, but I should do that sober. These thoughts have stayed with me ever since then. 7 PM My dad comes into my room and asked me why I was being a hermit. I just said I didn't know, and then he asked me what I was watching again. I wasn't watching anything so I just showed him my laptop. He just looked at it and said to get ready to leave with my aunt if I didn't want to go hunting. I packed everything I needed, and the rest of the tabs. I started drawing, an activity that I usually consider to be very boring. I started drawing a monster, and an apocalyptic world behind it. My aunt called me to leave, and I put my stuff in her truck and left. The car ride was pitch black, and I watched the Closed Eye Visuals change over and over again. I started getting strange visions of the Nine Tailed Fox from Naruto, and wondered what it meant. Then I saw the sharingan flash before me. I get Naruto related hallucinations quite frequently, I just really like Naruto. 8 PM I got to her house, and started playing Fallout 4. I felt like I was in the game, and felt as if I was actually murdering people when I killed super mutants that were trying to kill me. I stopped playing and just played something else instead. What led me to take 3 more tabs is beyond me, but I did it anyways. 9:30 PM The tabs hit me like the Fat Man hit Japan. I resumed playing Fallout earlier and decided to just explore. I began to notice that it felt as if my body was going into the game, and just let it happen. I was my character now, I lived in the Commonwealth. I took in the nuclear destruction that stood before me. A vision of what it once was flashed into my head, and it made me feel very sad. The city of Boston, once the biggest city in the Commonwealth, was reduced to a radioactive pile of concrete and steel. The animals native to the United States are now horribly mutated, and some even live off of the radiation that destroys us. The feeling of dread turns into courage, and I venture deeper into the wasteland to discover its secrets. I suddenly slam back into my body, and realize what happened. I look at the table, and see every dot creating a massive mandala pattern and then turning into a blob then back into a united form. The colors connecting them were new. I had actually never seen these colors before, but I would describe them as any color you'd see in a mop bucket. They seemed dirty and organic. I looked back up to the monitor to take in the visuals. I hadn't realized that I ventured into the city, and I also hadn't realized how intensely the visuals were affecting the game. The skyscrapers that still stood were swaying in a manner similar to the palm trees earlier, but more intense. They also grew bigger, shrank, became wider, and got closer. So many things happened that I entered a trance like state. I stared at the screen for what felt like 30 minutes, but when I looked at the clock only 5 minutes had passed. I decided to just keep playing the game. 11:30 PM I entered a state that I had never experienced before. I was narrating everything that was happening, except it wasn't me doing it. I wasn't me, I was a being controlling my body. My body was just a vessel. I felt as if I could possess any living thing, and I felt as if I had transcended to a new world. I, for some reason, took the last two tabs. After all, if I wasn't in the world at the time, what bad could this possibly do me? Obviously that's a joke, but this didn't turn out to be a mistake. I stopped playing Fallout and started thinking. I entered another trance. The world around me was nothing, I didn't exist and neither did anything else. All that existed were my thoughts, and I was even unsure of them existing. I thought about everything. The concept of everything couldn't possibly ever be used in the right context because I thought how could we possibly understand how big everything really is? Everything became a metaphor for how little of everything we really experience. This is just one of the many things I thought about. Day 2 1:20 AM The next tabs hit me and my ego dissolved completely. I was laying outside, staring at the nearly full moon and clouds surrounding it. The light hitting the clouds created a mandala pattern that never ceased to exist, and it changed into many things. Faces appeared in the patterns and even massive geometric formations. At one point, a hexagon was formed in the clouds and the clouds in the hexagon went back into space, and the ones around it came at me. The points of the hexagon came down to earth and created a tower. Everything was alive. The earth was the mother of everything on it. Even simple blades of grass had back stories, and lives. When I thought back on this later, it showed me how I'm not the center of the universe. Everyone has lives and things going on, I just focus on mine. I sat up eventually and took in every little thing around me. I felt the grass, smelled the air, looked at my aunts beautiful yard covered in flowers, and listened to the chirping that accompanies night time. I felt an appreciation for every tiny thing in this world. I regained my body, even though I really had control over it the whole time. I climbed up a tree and felt as if I had the Byakugan from Naruto. Like I said, I experience things from Naruto a lot on acid but I experience this one every time I trip. Basically, I feel a huge sense of spacial awareness. I become hypersensitive to any change that happens. A vision of whats behind me appears in my head and changes according to sounds I hear, lights that appear in front of me, or if an animal flies past me. Usually this vision is very detailed and accurate, and I've used it to my advantage when sparring another person in boxing when I'm tripping. While climbing this tree, it amazed me (This part is very difficult to explain, but I'll try my best) how I can use the space around me to move around, and place my hands and feet in the correct positions to move. I ascended to the top of the tree and I felt as if it had sentience. I went down to the bottom branch and carefully balanced on it while holding the branch above me and tested how strong it was by walking to the middle of it. I felt my primal instincts coming out, and just let them. Nothing too significant happened as a result. To a person observing me, it would look like I was just climbing the tree, yet it felt like so much more. 2:15 AM I went back inside, and ate pretzels. They tasted so extraordinary that I couldn't stop eating them. I realized pretzels are really only bread and salt. I wondered how something so simple could taste so good. It still amazes me actually. I watched this show called Primal, a movie about the adventures of a caveman and his dinosaur. This show has no words, and we must interpret what is happening for ourselves. This show felt like a godsend for me. This show was so interesting to me that I watched it for the rest of the night. The relationship between the caveman and his dinosaur was beautiful to me. They depended on each other to survive, and the caveman saved his dinosaur multiple times from dying. There was one point where he cared for him for days while he recovered from a nearly fatal injury. This created a feeling in me that I really can't explain. My ego dissolved again, and I watched the show while eating pretzels. I didn't think, I only observed. I didn't even notice the visuals even more, but thinking back on it they were very intense. Depth shifted so many times, the size of the room grew bigger and smaller over and over again. The walls seemed as if it bled color. The closed eye visuals even started appearing on everything in my field of vision. ~4? AM I decided to try to sleep. The chair I slept in was comfortable, but I felt the need to shift my position so many times. My breathing felt constricted, but every breath felt like a blessing. As I drifted off into sleep, it equated to death. For some reason, it didn't scare me, and I let it happen. It was the end for me, and I was okay with it. I watched fractal patterns dance as I departed from life, and then it finally happened. 9:15 AM I woke up still tripping. I felt reborn, and ready to take on anything that came my way. I went to the bathroom and watched the floor change into intense reds and pinks. Then an intense feeling of fatigue hit me. I finished what I was doing, and went back to sleep again. I woke up around 12 and the trip had ended.
Preparing for new home construction and trying to make decisions on master bathroom design. Pictured is the layout, but we will have white cabinets, a rectangular drop-in tub and there will be a seat in the shower. I want to use black hexagon tile somewhere. On the shower walls only? If so, what to do with shower floor, bathroom floor, and tub surround (ours will be tile all the way up to the tub, no apron like in the picture)? Or would it be better to do small black hex on the shower floor and larger on the room floors. Then white subway tile on the shower walls and the tub surround? Crazier idea: Wood look tile on the floors, black hex on shower floor, white subway tile on shower walls and tub surround. Wish I knew Photoshop. This is the only room that's threatening my marriage! https://preview.redd.it/csp230lem5a61.png?width=976&format=png&auto=webp&s=04b3240989ad913ff051811d7db1616b05109565 https://preview.redd.it/a2kgc2hfm5a61.png?width=882&format=png&auto=webp&s=fee60bd3e5dce5355a22ca7c53d668bb644805e5
Going insane: Matching white floor and wall tile (shower)?
I’ve spent the last six months and $150 on samples trying to find a basic white tile that comes in both a shower floor appropriate shape (e.g. hexagon, penny) and a shower wall appropriate shape (e.g. subway) and have somehow come up empty! Between Wayfair, Home Depot, Lowes, Floor & Decor, and The Tile Shoppe only one store (Tile Shoppe) carried a floor + wall line in the identical glaze/color and of course they had the matching samples in store but the floor tile was discontinued/zero stock. No problem—I’ll just order a bunch of separate floor and wall tiles and surely two of them will be close if I acquire enough. Aren’t there really only a few “big tile” manufacturers behind all these product lines anyway? Apparently not... across 25 different tiles there are no two that match. This one is cool white, that one is warm. This one is super polished, that one less so. Even from across the room I easily see the differences. Where am I going awry? I see images of properly matching white floowall bathrooms all over the place!
https://preview.redd.it/99vl8d91upd61.jpg?width=1414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b8dc85ed1faa79f0bc516604852314aac26349d Pebble mosaic tiles are mostly made from natural stone pebbles, the tiles are a collection of pebble shaped stones laid carefully on a mesh by skilled craftsmen. The tiles are shaped in interlocking patterns for easy installation and design layout. Pebble tiles come in a variety of colors and designs. These tiles are a great way to capture the beauty of outdoors in you space inside. The pebbles are polished, textured, flat, raised bumpy and more. Applications of Pebble Mosaic tiles Mostly used in bathrooms, they can be used as wall tiles and floor tiles. They help you achieve modern, traditional, and also a more rustic look depending on the colors and the pattern you select. The rustic look of some pebbles from the riverbed connects you with the nature, these tiles can be used for outdoor applications. Most popular uses are for Pool Pebble Tiles, Shower pebble tiles, accent walls, featured walls and backsplashes.
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Preparing for new home construction (North America - Texas, USA) and trying to make decisions on master bathroom design. Pictured is the layout, but we will have white cabinets, a rectangular drop-in tub and there will be a seat in the shower. I want to use black hexagon tile somewhere. On the shower walls only? If so, what to do with shower floor, bathroom floor, and tub surround (ours will be tile all the way up to the tub, no apron like in the picture)? Or would it be better to do small black hex on the shower floor and larger on the room floors. Then white subway tile on the shower walls and the tub surround? Crazier idea: Wood look tile on the floors, black hex on shower floor, white subway tile on shower walls and tub surround. Wish I knew Photoshop. This is the only room that's threatening my marriage! https://preview.redd.it/sw39abugn5a61.png?width=976&format=png&auto=webp&s=2aa439ecdeb19dc7990ed166d461fe0803bfdb90 https://preview.redd.it/wp1zidugn5a61.png?width=882&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6d122c00ad5879d3cc8d34b3a20338aa9ef8465
Imagine, for a moment, that much of the Bible is true. Some of you will need to apply more suspension of disbelief than others, but for you Westerners at least, it shouldn’t be too difficult. After all, we live in a world saturated by Christianity –from the holidays we celebrate, right down to the words of our nations’ anthems. Of course, I don’t mean the details of all those Bible stories are true – just most of the broad, overarching concepts. There was a tower of Babel of sorts. Eden existed. Human beings used to live ten times as long as they do now. That sort of thing. And God is omnipresent, in a way. We know that because we tested for the existence of him, with science. We created many different environments and scenarios, observing and recording everything we could – no matter how irrelevant the data points seemed. Exactly how we did this isn’t important. The key is what we did with that information. Because it follows that once you know how to detect the presence of God, then you can probably divine a way to block the sight of God, and render yourself invisible to his gaze. And that’s precisely what we did.
We knew our money came from a religious organisation, presumably some sort of megachurch operation that sucked money out of the devout, and funnelled it straight to us. Whoever was running it all certainly knew what they were doing, because our labs and offices were easily the nicest I’d ever worked in. But you’re not really interested in all that. You want to know about the thing we built; the thing that could block what I christened ‘God Particles’. It was ugly on the outside, this edifice. Inside its huge hangar, it was a sprawling mess of coolant pipes, humming fans, and ceramic hexagonal tiles the size of trampolines. It formed a dome in the centre of the vaulted space, encircled by backup generators, and the console desks that monitored the functions of the structure. The ceramic hexagons had been one of my major contributions to the project, my own invention. They looked dull, each one thick Palestinian clay on the outer surface, but the inside was banded with pure iron, then bronze, silver, and finally a layer of nanometer gold. I could tell you where I got the idea, but if you know your Bible well enough, you’ll already have figured it out. There was only one entrance to the dome; a hexagonal doorway in the west wall that contained a kind of airlock setup, where people needed to wait for just over eleven minutes before they were allowed to enter the godless interior. The consequence if you didn’t? I can only describe it as a sort of ‘spiritual decompression’, where if you leaped directly from one environment to the other, the sudden lack of – or return of – G particles, would send you into a kind of spiritual shock, not unlike decompression sickness. And inside the dome itself? Well, that’s where my story truly begins.
At first, the space was a curiosity; a huge, empty dome with an inner shell made of pure gold. The project director hadn’t liked the gold, and asked for it to be painted white, which made the place eerily directionless and infinite; the floor lighting bounced off the stark whiteness and homogenised everything. An area of space free from God didn’t actually seem very useful, at the start. We considered hiring it out to politicians, so that they could make plans free from the sight of God, but nobody was interested. It seems politicians have never cared overmuch about morality. We experimented with growing plants without the presence of G particles, which didn’t change their physiology or development in the slightest. Some of us worked in there, hoping that being free from God might inspire us to wild scientific breakthroughs, but no such thing happened. The only effect we could discern, other than the spiritual decompression, was that people who spent more than three contiguous days inside were prone to headaches when they came out of the dome. Everyone was wracking their brains for potential applications, but it took the only woman on the team to realise how the dome could be utilised. That woman was me. I was twenty-eight then, my body in perfect working order. Like the others, I spent my scheduled time inside the dome, experimenting, trying to find a real use for the unique environment I’d helped create. But I possessed one piece of human physiology my colleagues did not. A womb. For our comfort, bathrooms, showers and a kitchen had been set up inside the dome, and it was by sheer coincidence that I realised it – when I was in there, menstruation stopped completely. In fact, it stopped the very moment I set foot inside. I had found the point of difference that would lead to our breakthrough.
Humans were the only animal that experienced the effect, I discovered. No other animal has our unique cycle of endometrial buildup and shedding – reproduction is quite uniquely cruel and onerous for human women. From my childhood Bible readings, I recalled the story of the expulsion from Eden, and mankind’s great punishment. Adam was sentenced to toil in the earth until he returned to it, and for her part in the betrayal of the serpent, Eve’s lot was to bear terrible pain and suffering in childbirth. So did being free from God inside the dome mean that women were also freed from the horrors of childbirth? Since this was a uniquely human problem, human testing was the only way we would find out. Being young, and already so invested in discovering the answer, I volunteered to be the first test subject for a Godless pregnancy – with the help of another one of the researchers, who was more than happy to provide the required genetic donation. Quarters were created for me, my home for the duration of the pregnancy. A private room was built inside the dome, with sufficient comforts to keep me from going crazy for the next nine months. Once it was confirmed I was pregnant, all other work stopped inside the dome. I was made the priority, with doctors constantly hovering over me, monitoring, measuring, pricking my fingers for haemoglobin counts, and making me pee into an endless array of sample jars for testing. But all of us had seriously underestimated what would happen to a pregnancy inside the dome. After 28 days, the experiment came to a shocking end.
It was so abrupt and painless I hardly registered anything was happening. One moment I was sitting on the end of my bed, pulling on a shirt. The next, there was warm fluid spreading under my thighs, and an odd pressure in my pelvis. The foetus emerged intact, barely bloody, a perfect human in miniature. And rather than being a fatal miscarriage, as I initially assumed, the baby was whole and alive – it was just small. It was taken from me immediately; prodded, swabbed, injected, sampled. It was an ordinary baby girl, all organs fully formed and functioning, all Apgar scores 2, but barely one quarter the size of an average newborn. She was so little I could hold her in one hand, like a warm, pink doll. But when she latched to my breast and began to suckle, it was clear that her appetite was that of a regular-sized baby. She gained rapidly, making up for her premature birthweight within a matter of months. We named her Eve. Of course we did. What else would you call a baby girl born outside the sight of God, and therefore without original sin? Aside from the abruptness of her gestation, she grew as normally as any other child. I think many of us expected something mythical or miraculous, or catastrophic; that she would grow to be an adult before her tenth birthday, or have some other kind of extreme abnormal physical development. But she was as ordinary as could be, given the circumstances of her upbringing within that godless environment. Before Eve was five, a second woman was brought into the dome, to birth a second child – a boy – to be both a companion to Eve, and a future donor of genetic material when she was old enough to bear children. It seems strange to me now, to talk so clinically about it. We were all so detached, so invested in an outcome from our project, that we barely considered Eve human. It was as if being hidden from the sight of God meant that the things that we did to her didn’t matter. That she wasn’t truly one of us. But even so, I did care for her, as much as my duties allowed. She was still my daughter, even if I’d only carried her inside me for a month.
Our first inkling that something was wrong came with Adam’s initial stirrings of manhood. Eve had always been a wonderful child; polite, compliant, rational, and calm. Conversely, Adam was wild, unpredictable, and prone to rage. The first time he hurt her, he was disciplined into contrition, and we thought the matter done with. But he hurt her again almost immediately, without any regard for the consequences. It quickly became clear to his caregivers that he had a pathological need to harm other people, and Eve was the only target over whom he had any physical power, so the decision was made to separate them permanently. The dome was divided into two areas; Adam’s more like a prison, and Eve’s more like a home. Eve, despite her isolated upbringing, was intelligent, social and inquisitive. She devoured whole books in single days, and even read my papers on the dome’s construction and the research we were doing. I thought it important that she understand what we were doing; that if she was aware, then there would be a certain amount of consent when she was deemed old enough for the second phase of the project. And I felt vindicated in that choice when the day came for her to be inseminated, for she seemed perfectly happy to comply – but then again, she was always compliant, no matter what anyone asked of her. The male researchers had wanted Adam to impregnate her naturally, but even at sixteen years old, he was almost too violent for his handlers to keep under control. I refused to allow him anywhere near Eve, because the slightest glimpse of her – even a mention of her – would send him into a berserk frenzy, harming others and himself with a determination that was disturbingly inhuman. In the end, the sperm sample was extracted via needle aspiration while Adam was sedated. Eve’s pregnancy began in a laboratory, her harvested eggs fertilised under a microscope, then implanted into a womb that had never shed blood; but was healthy and functional as all her other godless organs. What would happen next, we had no idea.
As the first few days of her pregnancy progressed, we collectively held our breath, concerned that the implanted zygotes would be rejected by the smooth, vascular walls of Eve’s uterus. Our concerns were misplaced; her gestation was even more successful and abrupt than mine. We hadn’t even considered performing the first ultrasound, as Eve was just one week into her pregnancy, when she knocked on the door of my small office inside the dome to tell me she had birthed three children. And that all three displayed the same tiny size and perfect development as she had when she was born. The frenzy amongst the researchers and doctors was immediate. I was not permitted to actually see the triplets for weeks, but I was handed the reports and read through the data in the interim, just as fascinated as everyone else by these miraculous humans, gestated and born in a single week. They were sexless, these grandchildren of mine; fused labia and a urethral outlet the only external ‘genitalia’ in evidence. No internal structures were present, no ovaries. No undescended testes, no uterus. But other than that, they were incredibly heathy – and grew at a phenomenal rate. The miraculous predictions we’d initially had for Eve, that she’d be an adult before she was ten years old? We should have saved those predictions for the second generation. Eve named the children, for the three wise men who had visited Jesus in his manger - Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior. The staff at the research facility began to refer to them as ‘the triplet boys’, even though they were truly neither sex. I finally met them when they were six weeks old, each the size of an average six year old, chattering and playing with their mother and each other. They regarded me with obvious intelligence, listening attentively to Eve as she explained that I was their grandmother. When Melchior asked after his grandfather, I explained that a fellow researcher had donated genetic material, just as had been done with their father, for their own creation. “Can we see our father?” he asked me, after I had finished explaining. I kept my tone matter-of-fact, but told the truth. “Perhaps when you’re older. Your father has behavioural issues that we were never able to fully address.” I didn’t see any point in lying to the child. After all, the information wasn’t presented negatively; and we still maintained our efforts to try and deprogram Adam of his psychotic rage and eventually allow him to interact with other people. “I look forward to meeting him,” Melchior told me, before turning back to the board game he was playing with his brothers.
Three months later, the boys had matured into what we considered adulthood. Their development had essentially followed the pattern for eunuch boys, gleaned from accounts of the castrati singers from previous centuries. Deprived of endogenous sex hormones, the triplets grew tall, long-boned, fine featured and oddly androgynous. There had been talk of experimenting on them with sex hormones, to alter their physiology more male, or more female, but these ideas were discarded. These children would be the control group, to compare to their future siblings. There would be time enough for such experiments - Eve was already pregnant with the next batch of zygotes, unfrozen and implanted, now that we knew the children were able to grow to maturity without any known complications. There were some other curious anomalies with the triplets that we could not explain. Their lungs were almost thirty percent larger than regular male human lungs, and their blood needed far less oxygenation. Red cells were present, but their blood was dominated by plasma and platelets, rendering it an odd red-gold colour. Consequently, they were hyperimmune, and when the facility came down with the winter ‘flu, they were completely unaffected. Pathogens virtually dissolved on contact with their tissues. They were also very strong. Their long bones and wide pelvises gave them a stability and leverage that would perhaps have been frightening if we weren’t scientists - it was most easily explained by regular physics. We were planning some treadmill experiments, as we suspected they probably also processed lactic acid at an accelerated rate. But we didn’t get the chance to start that program. When they were just six months old, the triplets rebelled.
In hindsight, I shouldn’t have given Eve unfettered access to the experiment data, because that meant she knew as much as any of the researchers. And being a calm, rational, and patient teacher, she had imparted this knowledge virtually verbatim to her three sexless children, who were ferociously intelligent information-sponges. The morning of their rebellion, the alarms on Adam’s cell blared briefly, then turned off. We assumed it was in error, as Adam often had ‘episodes’, and nervous guards would fairly regularly trip the alarm in panic. Twenty minutes after that, I received an urgent call from a breathless junior researcher, babbling about the retribution of god and his angels, the last word stretched into a prolonged scream. Shortly after that, the line went dead. Several panicked calls later, we organised for an armed emergency security crew to assemble near the research facility. They entered the hangar first, and with extreme caution. Inside was bedlam. Everything that could be smashed or broken had been - including the staff who had been on duty. They lay in the shattered glass of the consoles, on top of the torn cabling, their smashed bones and ruptured organs spread about them in macabre parody of what had been done to the machines. The dome itself had been completely sealed, the bodies of Adam’s captors dumped outside in a discarded heap of mangled flesh – the sole survivor screaming and shaking in the middle of the mess, not from his wounds, but from sudden spiritual decompression – his soul being burned by the abrupt return of God to his system. At first, I thought perhaps Adam had intended to use the staff as hostages, to bargain for his release, but when we ascertained that the dome had been disconnected from everything – including air and water – that made me believe otherwise. That seemed the action of someone irrational; without air, everyone inside the sealed dome would be dead within a few hours. But of course, they never intended to be in there that long. The heat on the ceramic surface of the dome manifested first as a ruddy glow, then grew more palpable as the air inside the hangar started to heat up. A few of the team had followed the security team once it was clear there was no immediate danger, and as we shucked off coats and sweaters, the hexagonal tiles started to turn yellow, then white-gold, with the rapidly rising temperature inside. When the dome shuddered like a living thing, I began to realise what was happening. The dome, although that’s what it appeared to be, was less a dome, more an egg. The whole structure was an oblate sphere, half of it buried – containing generators, cooling tanks and other equipment needed to maintain the structure. It had to be a sphere. G particles came from everywhere, so had to be blocked from every direction. As the dome began to shake, it also began to sink. The others thought it was going to collapse, but I knew better. It wasn’t destroying itself; it was sinking into the earth. And I was soon proved correct; within minutes it was gone, only a gaping crater full of rubble to mark its descent into Hell.
With the experiment so abruptly shut down, few of the survivors really knew what happened. But while everyone was gaping at the crater where the dome had been, I availed myself of the security footage still resident on the undamaged servers. It was poor quality, as storage space was still at a premium in the early 2000s, but it was good enough to show me the start of the sequence of events inside the dome on that fateful morning. Their rampage began with the disposal of the guards assigned to Adam’s cell. The triplets picked the men up with their long arms, and casually dashed their brains out on the walls, barely testing their inhuman strength. When they freed Adam and took him to Eve, there was no violence. The children’s parents embraced briefly, then began talking to their offspring. From there, the cameras began to blank, one by one, as the triplets methodically tore the whole facility to pieces and murdered the staff who had been on duty. I couldn’t bring myself to watch all the footage of what my demonic grandchildren did to my colleagues. Demonic is exactly the right word, I believe. When we blocked that dome from the sight of God, when we created beings with souls untouched by him, we didn’t just recreate what could have happened in Eden if the serpent hadn’t been present. Instead, I believe we created a scenario that was much worse – the totality of God’s plan had been revealed, and the serpent took full advantage of that. You see, the big problem with Lucifer’s fall was that he only took a third of the angels with him when he fell. Even a brilliant strategist couldn’t win with those odds, and so he lost, banished to his pit of fire. But if he’d had the means to create a soldier every seven days, a soldier who could rip a grown man to pieces at just six months old? Well, then he’d have a good chance of winning – especially if he also had the technology to hide his gathering advantage from the sight of God. When I finally thought to look into exactly who was funding our ill-fated research, I found it wasn’t some megachurch-styled operation after all. After chasing paper trails until I was nearly crazed from the labyrinth of money laundering, the only origin I could find for the cash seed that had started all this was an abandoned master blacksmith’s forge, and a name. Wayland. Whoever - or whatever - Wayland might be, I’m confident now that they were in the employ of the Enemy. And that with every week that has passed since that dome sank into the bowels of the Earth, Lucifer’s army grows another Fallen stronger. And there isn’t a damn thing that God can do about it. He doesn’t have a clue there’s anything wrong.
[LF] Antique Bed (Black), Diner Neon Sign (Pink), some Fossils, and more! [FT] Anything in my catalog of furniture, bells, extra fossils
Edit: I am monitoring this thread on and off, but trades are still open! Please note that I will not accept blind PMs without commenting on here first, and I will PM you after confirming interest in a trade/sale in the comments below! For purposes of actually being found via the reddit search function, I'm going to list off everything currently purchasable in my catalogue below, and every item I want. For purposes of quickly scrolling through, please use Ctrl+F for "Looking For" and "For Trade" to quickly get to each list! Please ask about my color variations! I've listed color variants below only for items I want and a small handful of clothing that I have, I would need to go through my whole catalog again to get color variants for items I have. I'm fine with cataloging instead of outright swaps. I can also offer bells for whatever you've got. [Looking for]:
[LF] Black Antique Bed, Pink Diner Neon Sign, and more | [FT] Massive Catalogue, a ton of extra fossils, bells (prepare to use Ctrl+F)
For purposes of actually being found via the reddit search function, I'm going to list off everything currently purchasable in my catalogue below, and every item I want. For purposes of quickly scrolling through, please use Ctrl+F for "Looking For" and "For Trade" to quickly get to each list! Please ask about my color variations! I've listed color variants below only for items I want and a small handful of clothing that I have, I would need to go through my whole catalog again to get color variants for items I have. I will be doing this over time so if you don't see one listed please ask! I'm fine with cataloging instead of outright swaps. I can also offer bells for whatever you've got. [Looking for]: (This will be edited down as I acquire items I need through trades!) High Priority (Will pay 50k in addition to Nook buying price, or triple Nook's buying price, whichever is higher)!!
Fire Pit
Floor Light (Any color other than blue, light blue pink, green, or white)
Rattan Table Lamp (Brown)
Lower Priority (Will pay 25K in addition to Nook buying price, or double Nook's buying price, whichever is higher):
Beach Ball
Beach Chair
Box Corner Sofa (Non-Orange)
Box Sofa
Kitty Litter Box
Life Ring
Menu Chalkboard (Non-White, Non-Blue)
Pinball Machine (Non-White)
Pond Stone
Sand Castle
Surfboard
Unglazed Dish Set
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Tile newbie - Advice needed - DIY or hire a Pro???
We’re remodeling a bathroom and I’m doing most of the work myself but I’m a little gun shy to try the tiling myself. I’m pretty handy (I’ll do the plumbing, electrical, demo, vanity install) but I’ve never done tile work before and hear there’s some artisanship to it. I’m not afraid of a little hard work but don’t want to bite off more than I can chew and end up with poor quality or mistakes. Based on tile selections, this one won’t necessarily be easy. We have large ~12” hexagon tiles for the floor, mosaic tiles for the shower basin, 3”x12” subway tiles for most of the shower, and some different color 3”x9” subway tiles for the nitche and a vertical chevron pattern ~24” stripe on the opposite wall. The overall bathroom is upstairs and 6’x12’ with the shower being 6’x3.5’ with a window in the middle of the 6’ wall. I like doing this stuff myself but my wife and some friends have strongly advised me to hire a pro for the tile work. Do you all think that would be wise? As someone with zero time experience, are the odds against me that I’ll probably mess something up to the point it would be clearly visible or cause problems down the road? Thanks for the advice everyone!
Owners of tiny vestibules, show me what you’ve got
Hello all— context: I recently bought a 1940 house in mint condition, with original everything incl floors, doors, trim, some light fixtures as well as plumbing & electrical lol (both since taken care of ;) ) I’ve got a very small vestibule at my front door, when we moved in it was floored with white (!!) carpet covering up a pretty wrecked/cruddy mosaic tile, and had a very 70s brown wallpaper going on. pics It’s back down to the cruddy tile and is now a blank canvas for me to do what I’d like. I’d want to do tile floors again, and was thinking about white hexagon tiles, with black accent tiles, especially since I have the same in my bathroom and love them. I was also thinking about half-walls in subway tile but I think that would bring it too far into shower territory. If you have a similar setup to mine I’d love to see what your vestibules look like, there’s very little on the internet showing spaces where there’s no room for benches and the hexagon tile doesn’t bleed into LVP 😷
We have been saving to do a simple remodel on a small bathroom in our home. We are at the end of the second week of the remodel and I am wishing we never started this process. What I wanted was I thought relatively easy to do - updated vanity/sink, black and white floor, clear shower with white subway tile, black and white hexagon shower floor tile and matching tile in the shampoo box. So far the shower floor tiles and shampoo box tiles (black and white hexagon flower pattern) have had to be removed twice because the pattern is so uneven. The second time, I chose a different pattern to make it easier on the contractor. Now they are telling me the tiles won't work or ever be even. Subway tiles have had to be removed and replaced because of the tile work. A leak was discovered in the wall (not the contractor's fault) and now there's a hole in my ceiling. The guys doing the tile will call me in the bathroom to show me their work and it's still wrong. I don't know anything about laying tile and I don't want to be a construction overseer. I just want them to do a neat, even job. I am losing my patience. I thought all I had to do was choose pictures from Pinterest, show the contractor and they would make it look similar. Was I wrong to have the expectation that this should be a simple project? Do I have to settle with an uneven pattern with my tiles? Shouldn't they have told me the tiles I chose for the shower wouldn't work before I chose them twice? I've seen them work in other homes. Are my expectations whack? Am I a dummy? My husband seems to think this is normal. Help.
The bathroom is in a 150 year old brownstone in the NYC metro area.
No natural light.
Theme should work with brick wall
I think I would like to go with something that is not cheap looking and ties into the history of the building.
I think I would like to go with white theme, subway tile, maybe some type of tile floor that is like hexagon mosaic.
What I don't know:
What styles, color. Where to start. I am awful at this stuff and would almost rather someone pick everything out because I have no idea what faucet goes with what light fixture goes with what sink.
Started remodeling the master bathroom shower in November and it only took three times longer than anticipated! This was my first time doing a project on this scale and I'm really happy with how it turned out! Also, finished just in time for the wedding. In total, the project cost roughly $1,200 not including the shower door which I plan to buy and install after the honeymoon. Wall Tile: 4"x12" Fresh White Jeffrey Court ceramic field tile from Home Depot Floor and Niche: Carrara White 3 inch Hexagon Mosaic Honed Tile from Stone Center Online Curb and Niche ledges: Remnant granite from local supplier Grout: 1/8" Mapei Flexcolor CQ from Lowes Shower valve and hardware: Sumerain S3218NI from Amazon Drain: Neodrain 32" Linear Shower Drain from Amazon Waterproofing: Traditional shower pan and Redgard fluid applied from Home Depot https://imgur.com/a/HPYtJP6
Trying to decide on wall tile, would love your help!
I am re-doing my master bathroom, and would love help on shower wall tile. I prefer a large format tile (12x24) in the white family. My vanity is dark blue and bathroom floor is light gray. The shower floor is hexagon with gray veins and the current shower tile I have picked has veins with blue undertone. See the imgur album for pics! I am not sure how that will look once on the wall. I am also using quartz for the vanity, shower bench, and shower curb, though I have not picked that out yet. There is no natural light in the bathroom. I am located in Chicago. Thanks! https://imgur.com/a/r9DY8Ii
Hexagon Stainless Steel Brushed Mosaic Tile Bronze Copper Color Black Bathroom Shower Floor Tiles TSTMBT021 (10 Square Feet) 4.8 out of 5 stars 26 $172.50 $ 172 . 50 ($15.68/Square Feet) Nov 18, 2016 - Explore La Fou's board "hexagon tile bathroom" on Pinterest. See more ideas about Tile bathroom, Bathroom inspiration, Bathroom design. Hexagon tiles are often used for covering bathroom floors because tiles are very durable, water-resistant and hex tiles can easily make a cool statement. The most popular idea here is to decorate a bathroom in neutral colors and add a contrasting hex tile floor in navy, black, dark grey or any other color, and contrasting grout can help you to highlight the tiles. Our White, Black and White and Black Hexagon Tiles can be the perfect addition to any bathroom up and down the UK. With many different patterns to choose from, or even make your own, you cannot go wrong when purchasing our Hexagon Bathroom tiles. Small hexagon bathroom tile designs 2020 Remodeling in a bathroom is quite difficult when it comes to making a decision about which tile to use so in this article we would like to throw light upon small hexagon bathroom tile designs. White hexagon bathroom floor tile 2020 Such geometric figures as hexagon are quite interesting for designers, especially if we speak of ceramic tile. Yes, this wonderful shape can create a very intriguing pattern on the surface that looks like honeycombs. Tile comes in countless shapes, sizes, colors, textures, and materials. You can achieve any look with tile, from rustic to ultra-modern and everything in-between. Hexagon tiles are one of the most popular tile choices for the bathroom. Here, we look at these striking tiles and the many unique ways you can use them. Why Hexagon Tile? Bathtub/Shower Space. Highlighting your bathtub or shower space with a different tile is a very popular idea now, and hexagon tiles are number ones to do that! Rock them in some contrasting color to make the shower or bathtub stand out much more, for example, blue in a white or neutral bathroom. May 3, 2017 - Explore Bev Fingerhood's board "hexagon tile bathroom floor" on Pinterest. See more ideas about tile bathroom, bathroom flooring, hexagon tiles. There is a shower tile floor for every budget. Tile costs vary widely, ranging from budget-friendly ceramic and porcelain tiles up to the highest-end marble and detailed mosaics, not to mention that a small shower enclosure will require less tile and cost less than a large walk-in shower.
Installing hexagonal floor tile in a shower - YouTube
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