Remodeling Bathroom, what would you do?

[Anonymous]

I am planning to remodel master bathroom.
To be market-safe if need to sell in the next 4 years or so,
what materials and colors would you go with?

I personally can not stand any glazed ceramic tiles,
and especially the ones that are fake marble and each
tile is identical so when you look at the wall it is such
a give-away that it is fake marble.

I also tend not to like brown colors for the bathrooms
as far as the whole color palette, tiles, cabinets, wall color.


What color of the fixtures?
What size of the tiles on the floor?
What materials?
What kind of sinks?
What style of the toilet bowls?
What style of mirrors? Framed, unframed? Big small?

anything else?

[Anonymous]

Polished nickel
Rectangle 12x24
Marble tile, painted wood vanity
Under mount rectangle
Toto one piece in cotton
Unframed that tilt. 2 if double sinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Polished nickel
Rectangle 12x24
Marble tile, painted wood vanity
Under mount rectangle
Toto one piece in cotton
Unframed that tilt. 2 if double sinks.

pp, thanks. ALL good points.
marble what? all marble? floor and the shower stall?
what size of tiles on each? you said 12 by 24 but that
is floor, right? or all?

[Anonymous]

painted wood cabinets.. what color?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Polished nickel
Rectangle 12x24
Marble tile, painted wood vanity
Under mount rectangle
Toto one piece in cotton
Unframed that tilt. 2 if double sinks.

pp, thanks. ALL good points.
marble what? all marble? floor and the shower stall?
what size of tiles on each? you said 12 by 24 but that
is floor, right? or all?

I would do marble tile everywhere. Floor, up the wall to chair rail height, in shower. Get small marble tiles for shower floor (like herringbone or hexagon). But everything else 12x24. Easier for cleaning and looks uncluttered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:painted wood cabinets.. what color?

White or gray. This assumes you are doing a Carrara or similar marble.

[Anonymous]

Marble looks great, but it's not as durable as other materials. You can't use many stronger cleaning products on it, and a bathroom is one room that often needs deep cleaning.

There are many tiles out there - agree on hating the fake marble look ceramic tile.

My best advice is to go to Houzz and create an idea book. Then browse pictures of bathrooms and save ones that you really like. After a time, you will likely see some patterns popping out at you that will give you direction.

On some of your specific questions, no stupid vessel sinks. Consider how much space you have and make sure that you don't get such a huge sink that you can't even put down your toothbrush.

If you have a smaller bathroom, you want a medicine cabinet behind the mirrors.

When all else fails, go with clean and white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marble looks great, but it's not as durable as other materials. You can't use many stronger cleaning products on it, and a bathroom is one room that often needs deep cleaning.

There are many tiles out there - agree on hating the fake marble look ceramic tile.

My best advice is to go to Houzz and create an idea book. Then browse pictures of bathrooms and save ones that you really like. After a time, you will likely see some patterns popping out at you that will give you direction.

On some of your specific questions, no stupid vessel sinks. Consider how much space you have and make sure that you don't get such a huge sink that you can't even put down your toothbrush.

If you have a smaller bathroom, you want a medicine cabinet behind the mirrors.

When all else fails, go with clean and white.

PP here. I have redone 5 bathrooms and used marble in 4 of them. As long as you seal the marble, it shouldn't be too bad. Maybe a bit of etching eventually, but that can be polished away years later.

[Anonymous]

Marble is horrible for counters. Use quartz

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Polished nickel
Rectangle 12x24
Marble tile, painted wood vanity
Under mount rectangle
Toto one piece in cotton
Unframed that tilt. 2 if double sinks.

pp, thanks. ALL good points.
marble what? all marble? floor and the shower stall?
what size of tiles on each? you said 12 by 24 but that
is floor, right? or all?

I would do marble tile everywhere. Floor, up the wall to chair rail height, in shower. Get small marble tiles for shower floor (like herringbone or hexagon). But everything else 12x24. Easier for cleaning and looks uncluttered.

Bad advice--marble is too soft and expensive. Only use if your budget is infinite and you're willing to redo every few years. Also the grey trend is going to end and will look dated

[Anonymous]

We have just installed TOTO one piece in cotton elongated toilet in kids' bathroom. I hate it!!!!!!! It does not flush down solid waste, I end up having to flush twice plus use a brush. The previous toilet was a cheap American standard champion toilet and it flushed like an airplane bathroom toilet. The flush valve that came with toto did not work, we called the company to get a new one. Two plumbers refused to work on it saying that they are not familiar with this toilet, finally we found a plumber to install the flush valve. Get a Koehler

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have just installed TOTO one piece in cotton elongated toilet in kids' bathroom. I hate it!!!!!!! It does not flush down solid waste, I end up having to flush twice plus use a brush. The previous toilet was a cheap American standard champion toilet and it flushed like an airplane bathroom toilet. The flush valve that came with toto did not work, we called the company to get a new one. Two plumbers refused to work on it saying that they are not familiar with this toilet, finally we found a plumber to install the flush valve. Get a Koehler

Try a toto drake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have just installed TOTO one piece in cotton elongated toilet in kids' bathroom. I hate it!!!!!!! It does not flush down solid waste, I end up having to flush twice plus use a brush. The previous toilet was a cheap American standard champion toilet and it flushed like an airplane bathroom toilet. The flush valve that came with toto did not work, we called the company to get a new one. Two plumbers refused to work on it saying that they are not familiar with this toilet, finally we found a plumber to install the flush valve. Get a Koehler

Try a toto drake

+1. Kohlers are inferior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Polished nickel
Rectangle 12x24
Marble tile, painted wood vanity
Under mount rectangle
Toto one piece in cotton
Unframed that tilt. 2 if double sinks.

pp, thanks. ALL good points.
marble what? all marble? floor and the shower stall?
what size of tiles on each? you said 12 by 24 but that
is floor, right? or all?

I would do marble tile everywhere. Floor, up the wall to chair rail height, in shower. Get small marble tiles for shower floor (like herringbone or hexagon). But everything else 12x24. Easier for cleaning and looks uncluttered.

Bad advice--marble is too soft and expensive. Only use if your budget is infinite and you're willing to redo every few years. Also the grey trend is going to end and will look dated

+1

[Anonymous]

I would do something understated and inexpensive and gender neutral: dark slate looking tile floors (12x24, maybe in herringbone pattern); white subway tile shower, maybe with mosaic tile in shower niche; dark slate, dark marble or black river rock shower floor; pale green walls, chrome or polished nickel fixtures, good modern light (kichler). dark or light vanity with white quartz top.