Since some of your questions have to do with decorating, I'd suggest that you take this over to the Home Decorating Forum. Those people are pretty helpful with ideas about questions such as yours!

Thanks, I will do that. But I would still love to hear from people on the bathroom forum, especially about floor tile, sink, vanity, and shower doors. Please respond.
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I am doing a similar refresh of our basement bath with the same fixtures you have simultaneous with the contractor gutting our full bath. This is all in progress.

1. I really like the Kohler pedestal sinks & got our from homedepot dot com. They offer a chat window and I suggest if you are considering ordering online ask questions on the chat window like 'where are chrome towel rings" then after they answer your questions ask for a discount code. I got 10% off this way. Mine attaches to drywall and yours attaches to tile. Specifically ask the contractor if just any pedestal sink will work .... I see our workers are drilling long screws into my wall to affix the pedestal sink.

2. Add towel racks to your refresh and note Home Depot towel racks cost a lot less $$ than Danze etc.

3. I want a dark wood mirror around a recessed med cabinet and ordered the Broan recessed cab with Broan frame below. They arrive tomorrow. They took 4 weeks to come. Mine is Broan item 72ss246d

4. For an above the toilet storage cabinet I'll post another source link next.

Here is a link that might be useful: soruce for wood cabinets and medicine cabinets

And I see you may not need a towel rack since you have one set in the tile. You can put a towel ring for a handtowel into the drywall and the shower door you get can have a towel rack on the outside.

4. I shopped for our shower door on theshowerdoorstore dot com but decided I really wanted to see the quality differences in person. A local high end kitchen showroom had all the Basco options on display but Lowes sells the line Basco and I ordered mine from Lowes. Went online to Lowes site to their 'moving' area and requested their 10% coupon for the shower door.

5. I ordered a recessed toilet paper holder from this custom carpentry & cabinet source and it is really well constructed....this is an idea for your above the toilet cabinet.

Here is a link that might be useful: storage cabinetry source

Thanks, Sue, for all of your suggestions. I love that Broan mirror. I am going to ask my tile guy if he can remove the existing towel rack and install a nicer chrome version. Same with the toilet paper holder and towel rod over the toilet. Who is installing your Lowe's shower door? What color is your tile and what are you doing for your floor? Have you decided on paint?
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The paint in mine is almost the same color as your tile so it wouldn't look good. With your tan tile maybe a creamy ivory would look good.
My 4 inch x 4 inch tile is only in and around the shower and it is white with black pepper sprinkles. When we tiled over the black asbestos tile 8 years ago I got 9 x 9 inch white nonskid tile from a local flooring store. So with my white floor tile I chose Bauhaus Buff from Sherwin Williams the same color as all the rooms on that floor that looks good with our berber carpet.

One issue with ordering the mirror frame is that I have a custom vanity coming with a dark brown burgundy stain so the contractor will have to stain my unfinished Broan frame to be a close match. If you get the frame and storage cabinet separate you will have the challeng too of not having matching stain.

Here is a link that might be useful: paint color chip Bauhaus Buff

The contractor doing all my bathroom remodeling is a General Contractor and they are installing the Basco shower door from Loews. I didn't get this one linked below since I don't have a neoangle but here's where you can check out Basco options before you go shopping in person.

Here is a link that might be useful: Basco neoangle shower door

The funny thing is, much of what already exists in your bathroom is precisely what is very much in style now. Classic glazed ceramic tile, mosaic muticolored floors, etc. I think you should save money and leave the tile and floors alone. So that leaves:

1. Tear out the sink and put in a small vanity so you gain storage beneath. You can find decorative vanities in many designs so that your husband will be happy. Many have the sink and counter integrated already.

2. Replease the dated colored toilet witha crisp one that matches the new sink.

3. New shower door for sure. If you can do frameless, great. If not, I'm sure there's an improved option over what you have.

4. Lose the red oak accents. Find some open glass/chrome shelves to mount behind the toilet instead.

5. I can't tell what color the wall tile is. Pink? Beige? Yellow? The right paint and new sink/toilet will make room fresh. The floor looks caramel/tan/cream in these pics. Maybe paint with a grey with barely-there purpose hues. Or a light sagey green could work Even some shades of blue.

I would use matte opaque 3/4" glass tile on the floor and do a plaid pattern with shades of ivory, taupe, and dark brown. The tile isn't expensive and you can design your own pattern with them and you get them in ready to install sheets. Susanjablonmosaics.com has a tile designer program you can use and she can make them for you. I would then do the walls in a color similar to the tile, and use an espresso colored vanity, mirror and other accessories, and do a granite or engineered stone top that has those colors in it and a brown smoke glass vessel sink, or a stainless metal one. I would replace the toilet of course, and use a wide slat blind or a laminated pleated shade in a translucent rice paper type look in a color similar to the tile. If you replace the shower doors I would do all the fixtures in oil rubbed bronze and use a bronze metallic glass, or metal vessel sink.

We have a frameless shower enclosure for a neo-angle shower and I personally wouldn't recommend doing it. The new thin-line European-style framed enclosures are almost as good-looking, half the price, and won't leak.

I disagree that your existing tile is 'classic'. I think it's low-end builder grade, and very tired looking.

You need to be absolutely sure your tile guy is correct in thinking he can tile over the existing floor. Has he done a deflection test? If not, get thee over to the John Bridge forum where you can find out how to do one.

Here's a suggestion you may not have thought of. Call a local bath reglazing vendor with good references, and price out what it would cost to have your wall tile repainted. I'd do them a beautiful, glossy, crisp white, then paint the walls a nice rich medium-dark brown or slate gray. It's usually inexpensive, and will make it a breeze to keep clean because the grout will be forever sealed.

Keep the ceiling white (this keeps it from feeling like a cave) and if there isn't any crown molding, get some. A small bath like this needs some nice style touches to give it a more luxurious feel.

I agree with replacing the toilet with a glossy white one. But I'd use one of those half-depth vanity cabs with the sink top, for storage and space-saving. I know there are better quality ones than the one I linked to below; this is just to illustrate the style I'm referencing.

Here is a link that might be useful: Half-depth vanity with sink top

First, thanks to everyone for your suggestions. My tile guy tiled over a neighbor's bathroom floor tile and it came out well, so I feel confident that he can do it with my bathroom (same builder, same original tile). I have considered reglazing, but have heard so many horror stories about the paint peeling and looking terrible after a few years. If it were only tile on the wall I would consider it, but the same tile is in the shower, which is used daily. I worry that in a few years it would crack or peel and look bad. I like the suggestion of crown molding and will look into that. I will definitely replace the toilet. Still can't decide on a vanity with storage or a classic pedestal. I do like the idea of an espresso colored vanity with matching mirror. And then maybe a nice piece of art over the toilet, instead of a cabinet. But if I do a pedestal sink then I will need a nice cabinet over the toilet. I like the idea of a rice paper shade; I was also thinking of a nice bamboo. Saw that somewhere. Again, thanks for all the suggestions. Keep 'em coming, and I will definitely post "after" photos when it's all finished!

I would suggest covering up the wall tile with wainscoting, but I'm not sure it would work because of the way the top bullnose tiles go into the shower area. It might look weird and cut off. It may just be easier to find a paint color that will work with the tile.

Another option to consider you might want to consider would be a small floating vanity, and it wouldn't offer a lot of storage space, but some have more than others. That way you get a little bit of storage, but more visual floor space, which would make the room feel a little bigger.

Honestly, you don't need to fear reglazing. Pick a good vendor who does the proper prep and it'll last for years, possibly decades. Easy to redo if you want to change colors, too. Like any painting, properly done prep is everything and the key to a lasting job.

We had it done to an awful green tub because we would otherwise have had to replace the entire floor, which has a 3" thick mortar bed. The quote to demo and replace the floor was $1200 for a measly 6x9 space, so needless to say, it was cheaper to carpet the floor and have the tub reglazed to a neutral beige!

The original:

Reglazed in 2003 with a new cultured granite surround:

The installer told us the trick is to touch up any chips immediately. However, it never has chipped (and we have dropped things into the tub), and despite moderate usage the paint is still in perfect shape. He said it is virtually the same paint as used on autos. I think you'll find it's one of the most cost-effective ways to change the look of a tiled wall and also eliminate the dark-grout-at-the-floor-level problem.

You can take out JUST the bullnose around the top and add a contrasting band of tile and a tile chair-rail to really make it look more modern.

Rather than going frameless, just clear class will open up the space a lot.

Are you adding a vanity? Look for a "eurostyle" one to get narrow options.

Your tile floor actually looks like ours, it is from the 1960's. Our house is over 100 years old (the bathroom was redone in the early 1960's) Unfortunately, our floor started cracking (long story)& had to be replaced. I actually did like that tile! We needed a new subfloor & they replaced the old lead pipes etc.
Your wall tile looks like it is in good shape, is a neutral color & should go with any color.
We did have our tub reglazed then the contractor came in & chipped it (my blunder, should have had the tub reglazed last, after the other work was done) They did come in & fix the chips but it doesn't look the same .............