Very elegant space!

Beautiful!! Gorgeous view! Please give details - especially about the wall and floor tile and the tile on the top of the tub deck and shower floor (type, brand, size and color). What type of vanity top did you use? Thanks!

Thank you both - and we are very lucky to have a view (having lived in flat coastal plains earlier in my life).

The Details:

TILE
Walls: 12 x 12 Light Emperador Brushed Marble (Tile America, $11.60 sf)

Floor: 18 x 18 Rustic Cream Travertine (Tile America, $19 per tile, but got it on special sale for $4 a tile)

Shower, tub deck: 5/8 inch tumbled marble mosaics in Dark Emperador (MarbleNThings.com, $12,99 for 12 x 12 sheet)

Vanity & Shower Countertops: Cobra Soapstone (M. Teixeira)

Tub wall tile: 3 x 6 Biscuit subway tiles (Klaff's)

Sinks: French handmade porcelein in biscuit by Waterworks
(at incredible one day annual sale, $50 each)

Toliet: Kohler Cimarron ($440)

Whirlpool: Maax Living in biscuit by Maax (Tubs N Such)

Faucets: California Faucets in brushed nickel in Montecito series $$$$. Loved the style, but one of the shower faucets is loose and problematic even after 2 plumber visits. Also, a round trim piece fell off one faucet and has to be siliconed back on - not what we expected from brand new goods.

Rain shower head: Kohler in brushed nickel

Lighting: 2 Hollister Bath Bars from Hudson Valley Lighting in Satin Nickel

5 Towel hooks: Hotelier by Ginger, Satin Nickel
Toilet paper holder: Manhattan by Dynasty
Both from www.grabbarspecialists.com

Knobs: Assorted shapes from various sources, all in satin nickel

Paint:
Ceiling & window alcove: Medici Ivory SW7558
Beadboard & trim: Biscuit SW
Upper Walls: Jekyll Club Cottage Brick 2010-8, Valspar, Lowe's

Cabinets & Medicine Cabinets: Kountry Kraft Cabinets, Northeast Cabinet Design, Cream finish

Hope that is helpful.
Anna Lee F

Very elegant. Please share with us what type of beadboard did you use, small wood t&g strips, 7 inch mdf t&g strips or vinyl 7 inch strips. How many coats of paint did you use? Thanks

~~~(wildly waving at annaleef)~~~~

It's really beautiful! The wall color gives it great warmth. Ahhhhh.....

Really nice, but the best thing in the bath is Spencer--what a beautiful cat!

writersblock: Yes, Spencer is our best accessory! He is a little clown of a 22 pound cat and loves water, especially moving water. Very mellow fellow, never complains.

grammy46: What can I verify on the beadboard? I was at work when it was installed, but appreciate the site-built trim pieces the carpenters were skillfully putting together when I arrived home. Not sure if it came in strips or sheets. I will check with our contractor and see what they used. We are very happy with the finished walls. Our painter put two coats of paint over the primer.
We also had them install BB in the laundry at the same time (no photos posted yet), but asked for a higher height in that room. Love the ledges they build. I can rest my cell phone or watch or other items I am carrying around on a ledge when I stop to do a task near-by.

Ivette: Our 2004-05 group buddy! How are you! Still LOVE what you did with your remodel - great spaces! Your son must be in junior high by now! I've been away for so long; it is nice to see some of our old correspondents still around - serial re-modelers that we became.
The wall color was so funny. DH did not like the paint chip - color of dried blood - however, our painter embraced it and promised us it would work. It did warm up the space exactly as we had hoped. I think of it like a Hersery bar wrapper, mid-way between brown and dark red.

grammy46:

I checked and he used 4x8 sheets of 1-5/8 MDF bead board, then added all the detail trim above and below. It came primed, so the painter used 2 coats of paint on top of that.

Congratulations!

What a gorgeous bathroom!

May I ask you how long it took, from start to finish? And did you have drawings and plans in hand at the start, or was this an evolutive project?

Toolbabe,
Thank you. There is an endpoint in sight for you, too.

The short answer is August 09 to October 09.
Long answer:
We made the decision in January '09 to remodel. After long indecision on how to handle our unwanted "jail cell" dark tower shower (how would knocking it down would affect the room structure?), finally realized we needed a contractor to evaluate.

Decided it would be efficient to also remodel both a guest bath and our laundry room at the same time. That thinking led to our needing to move into a guest bedroom suite during the construction. Before we moved, it was the perfect time to replace the carpet and lighting in that bedroom and its bath, so we were in full efficiency mode.

Selected a bath designer in April. He recommended setting up a joint meeting with his favored GC collaborator. We reviewed sketches for all three major room re-do's, approved the cabinet designs in May and signed the contract with the GC in June after a few interviews. The work was promised to be completed in 8 weeks. From April through July we sourced and began to acquire major materials (travertine,tub, marble,toilets) on site.

The workers arrived August 3rd and left October 3rd. After that, we had a few dangling projects that we did not get to immediately - tried window shutters and felt they obscured too much of the view, switched to cafe curtains, ordered the windows'nickel hardware and seat cushion, etc.

All in all, work flowed much better than the kitchen remodel 5 years ago, due to better contractor (kitchen guy goofed up our range hood, so I identify with your bathroom cabinet issue).

Good luck to you on completing your projects. Your bathroom project sounds awesome.

Thank you for the encouragement, Annaleef!

Right now, I feel like a kid trapped at the back of a stationwagon on the way to the cottage. Are we there yet?

Started on this journey way back on Noverber 9th, '09.

And we are only now starting to lay the tiles. But, I'm holding on...

This is where we're at so far:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23793120@N00/

Sorry, but I did not answer your specific question, Toolbabe, on whether we began with plans or evolved during construction.

The contractor sketched out plans, which we modified a little. The cabinet designer worked in concert with those plans. There were only a few gaps to overcome when the cabinet designer thought we were flipping locations of the shower and toilet as the contractor had originally proposed and added a finished right side to the vanity, which we caught in time to cancel. Because he thought he had more space to play with, we discovered we could not do vanity sconces as we preferred, but had to go with over-vanity lights.

As it worked out, not the best outcome for facial lighting. Good thing we have tons of natural light. Our light bar fixture, ordered before we knew the exact depth of the medicine cab trim, could not be turned into a down light because of lack of clearance. So we installed it as an up light, decorative but not totally functional. We decided to live with it for awhile. It would be more functional if the glass shades were not opaque on the bottom.

Thank you for sharing your experience, Annaleef,

It is very comforting to know I am not alone to be travelling along the One-Thousand-Tiny-Decisions-a-Day path to glory.

We also had a sconce moment. A bar it is, but it faces downward (or will be, eventually, one day, over the rainbow....)

Catching potential snafus last minute. Oh boy, don't I know that feeling well! Insanely thrilling, isn't it (says she, involuntarily jerking convulsively...)... ?

Our project started out by demolishing the existing bathroom down to the studs and joists. A small narrow closet was sacrificed to the task, old wiring and insulation were replaced, and a proper fan (Panasonic) was installed. The only thing we kept is the window, but after seeing what you did with yours, I'm up here biting my thumb. Starting from scratch made the rebuilding simpler in the end. With the studs exposed, it was a cinch to rewire, create a wet wall, and insulate. We then cement boarded the wet wall, shower and bath area. After that, I plastered and painted the walls and ceiling, and the tub surround frame was built in. That is about when Christmas hit us in the face. While most people were shopping for Christmas presents, we were shopping for tiles. Somehow we found what we needed and hit the ground running on January 4th, thinking we'd be done in two, maybe three weeks. T'was not to be. First, the tiles we'd ordered because they were supposedly in stock turned out to be somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic and only expected in February, March really. So we had to scramble and find a replacement so we would not incur down time with our tile man who was coming in the following week. We managed, but then the granite could not be ordered because the furniture was not in. Turns out we needed the granite in order to lay the tiles. Who knew. And here we are. Maybe I'll be able to take my first shower of the year at Easter. It will makes my classic bathroom feel so much more authentically traditional!
Cheers!