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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Post to Gardenweb with photos. They have a baths forum although I don't know if it's quite as active as the kitchens forum. You'll get a lot of good experienced feedback including from pros.[/quote]

+1. Very good suggestion.

My two cents: Your cabinet is your focal point since 1) you love it, and 2) you can't return it. Everything else is changeable (though admittedly at a cost of time, money, and DH's patience!). Cream and gray CAN work together, but only if it's a warm gray, and it sounds like yours may be a cool gray with cool white grout. You would want a warm gray tile with warm white/cream grout to complement your cream cabinet. Sounds like you have your undertones wrong. Check out Maria Killam's website for a very thorough discussion on the undertones of white and how they can really send you astray. It isn't even just a matter of cold/warm - undertones can be blue, red, green, yellow...and those little differences can clash a lot, as you are seeing. (Look at Pinterest and Houzz for "cream bathrooms," "Cream vanity," etc. to see how the pros do it.)

Sage green Corian...I'm not too sure about that. But whatever you do, you MUST buy or rent a sample to hold up against your new cream cabinet and whatever tile and grout you go for next. Put them all together and look at them for a couple of days to see how they look. Bring over friends who are good at this stuff. Again, undertones, undertones, undertones.

Also - go for the double sink! Most people love them - I sure do. DH and I have somehow never managed to share a sink and for that, I am grateful. He's way less neurotic than I am about rinsing, so he leaves bits of toothpaste, shaving gel, whiskers, etc. and I don't want to look at that mess every morning. Ladies, I think you're with me.  :)

Good luck! Fix it all now while you can - don't give up in despair and then hate your expensive new bathroom. It was an easy mistake to make for a newbie renovator and it will be worth it in the long run to fix it.

Final suggestion: I just read in the new issue of InStyle about some new a la carte design services that might be of use to you. Homepolish.com and Remodo.com[/quote]

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