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I need help, DH demo'd the bathroom

16 years ago

We've needed our only bath remodeled since we bought the house in 1994 but he grabbed a hammer last week and took out all the (moldy, peeling) drywall on a whim.

We have not picked out faucets, shower/tub hardware, or lighting.

We have a vanity and linen tower in whitewashed maple, very neutral styling. Not country, not modern.

White toilet, white tub are staying. Going to tile around the tub to the ceiling with soft sage green with a border of porcelain tiles that looks like natural slate (mostly gray with green and brown) which is what is going on the floor with a heat mat. The porcelain tile comes in 12 x 12 for the floor and a 4" high linear mosaic for the border. Have a new fiberglass window that opens above eye level in the shower.

House is a 1952 single story with bungalow details. Coved ceilings, hardwood floors, we love Craftsman/Mission design.

Have no idea what to do for faucets/shower. I'm liking brushed nickle. We are shower people but DH refuses to take out the tub and do a walk in tile shower. He thinks it would hurt resale of the house. We've lived here 16 years and have no plans to move but he flat out refuses. I've been on him about it for over five years. He isn't giving in.

We've been to Home Depot and Lowe's and nothing really grabs me but Price Pfister's Pasadena faucet.

I don't want a shower head that blasts me with little needles like some hotels have but I have a lot of hair that needs thorough rinsing. When we shower together currently, one of us is freezing and out of the spray. Would like to fix that. He is replacing all the plumbing in the bathroom, can do any configuration we want for shower but am sooo confused. A showerhead on both ends? One in the ceiling and one on the wall? a sliding bar with handheld? we have a handheld now and only take it off the base to clean the shower.

I'm a terrible lazy cleaner and he is just as bad. NO kids. I'm thinking brushed nickle would be better than polished chrome. we have naturally soft water here.

I'm reading back threads but thought I'd post for advice.

Thanks.

Comments (8)

  • 16 years ago

    If you have mold and live in a cold climate, you might need more insulation to prevent cold walls condensing out moisture. Now is the time to do it. See the link below.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Getting Rid of Bathroom Mold in Drywall

  • 16 years ago

    There was compacted old blown in insulation in the walls when siding was replaced last summer. All of it was removed and the pink stuff was put in. All moldy or wet wood was removed ditto drywall on the outside wall. I'll read the link, thanks.

  • 16 years ago

    I absolutely love my 12" rainshower that comes down from straight overhead. If you've got the space for it, you might consider two of those, with a handheld on the wall inbetween them.

    I don't like showering under a handheld, especially if someone else is under the rainshower. It's too small.

    As far as finishes, my recent reading here is that the brushed nickel is no easier to clean and possibly harder to keep looking clean. We're lazy too and have chrome fixtures and I find them really easy to clean.

  • 16 years ago

    I hear ya. Except that for us, I was the one who sledged the old do, not DH.

    You know the saying. There's nothing to it but the doing it.

    As faucets go, we went for polished nickel (Riobel), a 12" rainshower, and a handheld installed so it can reach down to wash the dog. No fancy schmancy water jets in the shower even if our plumber was raving about them. We had to special order these things and I was concerned this would delay the rest of our project. Knowing what we know now, I would not have worried so much. But you do need the roughs of the faucets installed before you close up the walls.

    Which bring me to this little piece of wisdom. You mention that this is your one and only full bathroom. This was also the case for us. Do yourself a favour and get yourself one of those little modular inexpensive showers you can rough install somewhere in your basement or garage, for you to have while you are renovating. It'll make life so much easier in the long run.

    Cheers!

  • 16 years ago

    Will a rainshower from the ceiling splash onto the window? The window is fiberglass not wood but I would assume having water splash on it would not be good.....

    Don't want fancy jets in the shower, have a hot tub on the deck but don't want just one showerhead either. Since everything is gutted the time to add something extra is now.

    No basement, garage is one car that is full with workbench, furnace, fridge, water heater, etc. No possible place to rig up a shower....This is our only bathroom, period. No half bath. DH was supposed to borrow neighbor's travel trailer that has full bath for this project but just dived in without arranging it.

  • 16 years ago

    It's our guest bathroom, and I know from adding the (now) master bath and redoing the kitchen you can never plan on things going quickly!

    I am incredibly fortunate to have a dog who not only never misbehaves, never goes in the house, loves everybody, is not hyper, etc but also, through a combination of genetics and the right food, just never smells. Which is a good thing since he HATES baths. He hides in the yard if either of us is thinking about it. He's very smart that way. But the two times in the 7 years we've had him that we bathed him the handshower was critical.

    I think that bodyjets are just not a good idea. I get wet, I soap, I rinse. Sometimes repeat. That means stepping in and out of the water, and with bodyjets there is no "out".

    It sounds like you've done well. Congrats!

  • 16 years ago

    This is what bathroom looks like today, functional but rough, ugliest vanity ever:

    {{gwi:1411700}}

    These are the tiles we are using, the "slate" is porcelain, the sage green tile is 6 x 6 square, I cut off it's head in the photo. You can see the most hideous floor on earth we've lived with to the right:

    {{gwi:1411703}}

  • 16 years ago

    i really like that porcelain!