Monday, March 15, 2010

Bathrooms on the Brain

We desperately need a redo in our main floor bathroom. I started peeling the wallpaper off the walls several years ago and, due to extreme lack of decisiveness, there it sits. I'm sort of glad I let it sit there so long though, because I finally know what I want to do in there. It will need to be on a budget though, and by budget, I mean as cheap as possible.

When I saw this, I knew I had a jumping-off point. Swooning.........
restoration
But it will need to be a slightly smaller version that we'll do ourselves. The chrome legs can be purchased separately, and then we'll have to have a piece of marble cut for the top. This one is from Restoration Hardware (that means $$$) and is too big for our space anyway.

I hope to do a classic, all white bathroom, like one that you would see in an old house. Our house isn't new, but it isn't old enough to be considered an old house, and I love old houses.

I've been collecting some images for inspiration, here are a few:

White-bathroom

waterworks1

waterworks2

waterworks3
above three images all from the Waterworks showroom

marble tops

elle nov 05
Elle Decor


elle oct 07
Elle Decor


linder_shelf_brackets

vintage black & white

blue walls

white on white

double

console table
A more budget-friendly version of the dream sink, still cute though.


sink console
Another option. I think this one's from Pottery Barn.


white & black
small bathroom...just like ours.


perfect master

gray
...and gray. I love how they used smaller tiles on top here.


tile walls

miranda_bathroom
A little bit of trivia: the above photo is Miranda's bathroom from the set of Sex & the City.


Ours is the main floor bathroom that we use and that people see and use when they come over (or the Powder Room if you're Southern!) But it's a full bath since we have a bedroom on the main floor...so we have the tub/shower to redo also.

I'd like to do the 1-inch hex tiles on the floor with gray grout. Either porcelain:
hex tiles

or marble:
1 inch Hexagon

And plain white subway tile on the walls. These ones are from Lowes, 22 cents each:
7-7-lowes subway

I love the tiles in a herringbone pattern too, like this:
herringbone tile

I picture it with an oval mirror above the sink, something like this:
pivoting mirror

This one's a medicine cabinet, even better! Why don't houses have medicine cabinets anymore???
medicine

And a bridge faucet, like this one:
bridge

With sconces on either side of the mirror, I like these ones from Bellacor ($70 each):
bellacor 70

and a glass or marble shelf above the sink, something like this:
shelf

Some other accessories on my list:

basket from shoestring home ($40):
shoestring home basket 40

chrome soap holder for tub from signature hardware ($42):
chrome soap basket

Ahhhhhhhhhh....a girl can dream, right????