It is always nice to have the tub wall as a focal point entering the room. However with only 6' width that does not seem possible. So you will have three. A stunning chandelier as you enter the room, a vanity area with walls/tiles/paint/mirrors/millwork, etc as your second focal point....and then once in the room (perhaps coming out of the shower each morning) you will appreciate your third focal point, above the tub.... I believe a house or any room should reveal its self like peeling an onion....layer by layer. Not hit you in the face...then everything else "feels" like less...but only my opinion. Also make sure function is right...design, colors, decorating comes AFTER you have contractor approval and pricing...then you know how much of your budget is left to decorate...ps leave 15% of budget for unexpected construction problems. If there are none, then you have funds to add that special "want" but could not afford...or buy a bottle of champagne and celebrate your new room,while sipping bubbles in your air massage tub. And use the Internet to shop...something special does not always mean more expensive.. see if your contractor has connections. Visit bath dealers say you are changing you entire bathroom, and want to know the best price the would give if you bought everything from them...most can order what you want, even if they do not have it in stock.. For me the tub I wanted... quote $7,000; discount store $3,500; found custom house builder and asked if he could help...his fee 15% of his cost...my total cost for the exact make, model, brand of tub...$2,130 including delivery directly to my house.

this is old but i have a cast iron tub im getting rid of. some arguments were that if your bathroom is warm everything will be warm. no, the tub is very big and very cold. even the faucet on full blast hot..the water chills in minutes to less than lukewarm with pockets of chilled water around the sides and bottom. And before anyone says anything about my water heater, the water coming out of the tap is extremely hot so i have to be careful even with washing my hands. its set high BECAUSE of the tub. I mostly twkw showers now because baths are uncomfortable.

Fun post- just a little old! May we see an update? --- Tub wall appears plumbed for a shower, but we see no head! Original porcelain faucet sconces. Not that I'm into keeping original toilets unless they work well, but this is likely a replacement; looks like original tank would have been hung from the 2 holes on the wall. It's likely that faucet handles needed replacing after many decades. If it were my mine, I'd try to lighten up the wall grout color-- unless my monitor is just emphasizing it. From this angle, the floor doesn't look so good, but if it's in great condition , you are LUK-EE! My 1924 bathroom floor is unfortunately shot. You could certainly go to an Art Deco styling , but that would likely have come just a few years later, when colored tile became available and the field tile shape typically became square.

Rai Kai, Thanks so much for your input and for posting those gorgeous photos. I just want to clarify - are the first two pics of the kitchen and bathroom from the show home? And then the sample board with white cabinet sample, statuario marble and Bianca Drift quartz is what you will be doing in your own home? I love the Calacatta and Statuario equally, but feel that for our bathroom a little less white and more pattern is the way to go. I'm glad you showed the Bianca Drift as we have been having second thoughts about our choice of Silestone Calacatta quartz, thinking maybe it will be too much white for such a large bathroom? Just last night I was looking at other possibilities on Silestone site, but I'll move over to Caesarstone today and look up the Bianca Drift. So, thanks for introducing it to me! The brushed or satin nickel would have been my first choice, and in all honesty it's my preferred look, but I started this thread after the sales rep in the bathroom store told me that brushed nickel was on the way out. Since we will be selling in a few years, that got me worried. The consensus on this thread was to go with chrome so I'm fine with that....but I do get what you're saying about satin nickel being softer and warmer, which I think is important in a bathroom. We do plan to panel rather than tile around the soaker tub, as well as hang curtain panels on the sliding glass door, so hopefully the bathroom will still look warm and inviting. But in light of what I heard about satin nickel, my other dilemma is what finish for the new door knobs throughout the house? We need to replace the nineties brass ones, and here I can't quite picture chrome, mainly because of its fingerprint issues. I suspect we will go with satin nickel because I really don't see any other choices looking right. I'm curious to know if you're in Canada? I thought Tierra Sol was Canadian but perhaps they are in the US too?