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Brian met with the plumber today. They said they'd be ready to start if we were in 2 weeks (eek) and told him the order of things. I guess its time to go buy a tub (once the snow is gone). The fancy tile has to be ordered, but that's for the outside of the shower, so it shouldn't hold us up from doing things.
We picked up a vintage-styled showerhead/faucet kit tonight at Home Depot. Its based on 1922 hardware - here's a not so great pic I found online:
http://marmontianderson.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=5&pos=3
What's cool, is that Home Depot has subway tile! I brought the sample that Roma Tile had given us and we compared to the stuff at the Depot. One tile at Home Depot costs $.19 compared to around $1.20 at Roma Tile. We'll be using the Home Depot subway style tiles in white for the bulk of the work. At the bottom we'll have a tile baseboard ordered from Roma (we didn't like the ones at the Depot, and they didn't have them in black anyway). At about a bit higher than chair rail height we'll have a row of the special order decorative stuff, and a thin border tile from Home Depot on top of that. We'll paint above, color tbd (I'm leaning in the direction of using the stuff we had in our bedroom while Brian is leaning in a gray direction - we'll need to see the tile before actually deciding though).
So in the short time frame we need to buy a tub, plan when we'll be working on this stuff, rent a dumpster and after that make a huge mess and get our hands dirty. I'm not looking forward to having to shower at my parent's house for a week, but I'm looking forward to the end result. :)
We picked up a vintage-styled showerhead/faucet kit tonight at Home Depot. Its based on 1922 hardware - here's a not so great pic I found online:
http://marmontianderson.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=5&pos=3
What's cool, is that Home Depot has subway tile! I brought the sample that Roma Tile had given us and we compared to the stuff at the Depot. One tile at Home Depot costs $.19 compared to around $1.20 at Roma Tile. We'll be using the Home Depot subway style tiles in white for the bulk of the work. At the bottom we'll have a tile baseboard ordered from Roma (we didn't like the ones at the Depot, and they didn't have them in black anyway). At about a bit higher than chair rail height we'll have a row of the special order decorative stuff, and a thin border tile from Home Depot on top of that. We'll paint above, color tbd (I'm leaning in the direction of using the stuff we had in our bedroom while Brian is leaning in a gray direction - we'll need to see the tile before actually deciding though).
So in the short time frame we need to buy a tub, plan when we'll be working on this stuff, rent a dumpster and after that make a huge mess and get our hands dirty. I'm not looking forward to having to shower at my parent's house for a week, but I'm looking forward to the end result. :)
