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I set up a directory on our website for bathroom photos and put some in there:
http://marmontianderson.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=5
It shows the pic I'm using for tile inspiration from the previously mentioned bathroom, what we're up against currently, and some ideas for what we'll be doing. If you select a picture and go through the slide show (click 'next') there is a description at the bottom of each photo of ideas we're having.
We went out browsing again last night, and at the Home Depot Expo store found a sink we like that's a more retro style pedestal and would take up less space. They also had these really Art Deco style pull-chain sconces that are white and chrome - so cool! Given that they were at the Expo store, they were surprisingly inexpensive. We'll probably buy them soon and stick them in the basement for whenever we do redo this bathroom (because with my luck, if we waited until we needed them, they'd be discontinued). I'll go in and get a pic of the sconce soon to share - we didn't have a camera with us at the time and I can't find it online.
It seems like Home Depot and Lowes carry less ceramic tile than they did the last time we went browsing (for our Kitchen remodel in Framingham in the summer of 2003). I wonder if they just weren't selling as much, and scaled back greatly (like, they don't sell wallpaper anymore either for that reason). Brian and I will need to scope out some tile showcase places, though thankfully we won't need too much for the floors so it shouldn't cost too much, even if we're paying specialty store prices. Thankfully, Home Depot carries the plain white and black square tiles that we'll use for the walls (don't have gray, but I think we could order it from them). I'd love to get the small 1" or so tiles that come in 1' sheets for the floor in some kind of checkerboardish pattern - either square or hex. I still haven't seen anything I've liked at the Depot or Lowes, hence this whole tile store thing.
Its funny - I forget how much I love this kind of thing until I'm in the thick of it. Its dorky, but its still fun.
As far as storage - Brian had the revelation that behind the medicine cabinet wall is a good 4 feet or so going back into the wall (as far as he remembers from when he did some wiring in the attic, and the floorboards were removed. Its the wall between our bedroom and the attic stairway, and as far as he can tell is all hollow. That's so much untapped space that perhaps we could creatively use for storage! The problem is, we wouldn't know until the wall was open (we'd need to do anyway if we were wiring in new sconces). We could potentially have a panel door that opened with slide out storage in there for things we don't use often. Its an idea that we could play with, and could be fun to engineer. Rather than having a medicine cabinet, we could have a mirror that would open to reveal a big storage cubby in the wall, or we could have a drawer that pulls out or something. We shall see!
http://marmontianderson.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=5
It shows the pic I'm using for tile inspiration from the previously mentioned bathroom, what we're up against currently, and some ideas for what we'll be doing. If you select a picture and go through the slide show (click 'next') there is a description at the bottom of each photo of ideas we're having.
We went out browsing again last night, and at the Home Depot Expo store found a sink we like that's a more retro style pedestal and would take up less space. They also had these really Art Deco style pull-chain sconces that are white and chrome - so cool! Given that they were at the Expo store, they were surprisingly inexpensive. We'll probably buy them soon and stick them in the basement for whenever we do redo this bathroom (because with my luck, if we waited until we needed them, they'd be discontinued). I'll go in and get a pic of the sconce soon to share - we didn't have a camera with us at the time and I can't find it online.
It seems like Home Depot and Lowes carry less ceramic tile than they did the last time we went browsing (for our Kitchen remodel in Framingham in the summer of 2003). I wonder if they just weren't selling as much, and scaled back greatly (like, they don't sell wallpaper anymore either for that reason). Brian and I will need to scope out some tile showcase places, though thankfully we won't need too much for the floors so it shouldn't cost too much, even if we're paying specialty store prices. Thankfully, Home Depot carries the plain white and black square tiles that we'll use for the walls (don't have gray, but I think we could order it from them). I'd love to get the small 1" or so tiles that come in 1' sheets for the floor in some kind of checkerboardish pattern - either square or hex. I still haven't seen anything I've liked at the Depot or Lowes, hence this whole tile store thing.
Its funny - I forget how much I love this kind of thing until I'm in the thick of it. Its dorky, but its still fun.
As far as storage - Brian had the revelation that behind the medicine cabinet wall is a good 4 feet or so going back into the wall (as far as he remembers from when he did some wiring in the attic, and the floorboards were removed. Its the wall between our bedroom and the attic stairway, and as far as he can tell is all hollow. That's so much untapped space that perhaps we could creatively use for storage! The problem is, we wouldn't know until the wall was open (we'd need to do anyway if we were wiring in new sconces). We could potentially have a panel door that opened with slide out storage in there for things we don't use often. Its an idea that we could play with, and could be fun to engineer. Rather than having a medicine cabinet, we could have a mirror that would open to reveal a big storage cubby in the wall, or we could have a drawer that pulls out or something. We shall see!
