Anonymous wrote:OP - DH says he won't rip up the tile.....

Should I change out the vanity?? I love the vanity and I don't like the tile...Ugh.

the tile is not square; it is a light gray in wood plank shapes...from Home Depot.

I am now rethinking the whole corian idea.

I think the main problem is that the floor and tub and toilet are the cool colors - gray and white while the vanity is a warm tone and so are walls..I should have gone with all warm tones...Ahh...I'm such an idiot.

Just get a white or gray countertop to pull the whole thing together. And choose a paint color that pulls it all together. You still have the walls and curtain to pull it together -- it will be fine -- honest.

OP people are being mean. Some of them anyway. Most toilets are white. No one is really thinking about that. I am sure it will all look fine in the end. Ask someone at Lowes to help you, or look at their bathrooms where they are selling the vanities. Go with a neutral countertop. If you want one bowl, fine. You might want to match the colors of the walls they have there with a paint chip.
We have done many renovations -- you frequently doubt yourself -- the shock of the new. We did ours dark when that first came out -- at first we were like -- WTH?? Now it looks perfect.

You have to paint the vanity white & then choose a cool top for the vanity. How about a silestone that either looks like Carrera or is grey?

The tile sounds gorgeous. I like the vanity too. You need to paint it gray - maybe pale gray to comememt the tile. Then paint the walls a warmer color, green-gray or hell even a greige. Please make the counter a neutral color. Gray green will work better on walls than the counter. Trust me.

Anonymous wrote:Okay, if you don't like white marble, what about a silestone color that may bridge the gap?

http://www.silestoneusa.com/colors/

Quasar, Halley, Pacific, Atlantis, Merope, Mountain Mist, Istmo?

Also,,what shape and layout is the tile?

this is an idea...Thank you.

OP - DH says he won't rip up the tile.....

Should I change out the vanity?? I love the vanity and I don't like the tile...Ugh.

the tile is not square; it is a light gray in wood plank shapes...from Home Depot.

I am now rethinking the whole corian idea.

I think the main problem is that the floor and tub and toilet are the cool colors - gray and white while the vanity is a warm tone and so are walls..I should have gone with all warm tones...Ahh...I'm such an idiot.

Anonymous wrote:thank you for all the advice. Yes, that is the vanity. The corian cilantro is a very gray green...but I am convinced now it won't work. I don't like the cold feel of marble. I thought Corian would work well in a bathroom; it last forever and doesn't get stains; and feels nicer to me. My DH hates Correra marble.

If it makes you feel better, you're wrong about a few features of Corian. Many version of Corian stain easily. My best friend's mother picked Corian for a kitchen renovation and within a year HATED it. She said anything off color immediately stained it (red wine, tomato sauce) and you had to catch things in minutes or the color would start to seep in. In your bathroom, you won't have those, but you may have makeup or medicines (cough syrup?) that make stain. Also, Corian is soft. We have it in most of our bathrooms. In one bathroom, we have no idea how it happened (when we had houseguests), but someone dragged something across the counter and we now have two gouges in the counter about an inch long. In my mind, it looks like the Xmen comic character, Wolverine, visited our bathroom and left his signature on the counter. I've seen any number of things scratch Corian. You can buff out some of the smaller scratches, but it's a PITA.

Corian is a cheap solution that is one step up from Formica, but one step down from regular granite (which is still the medium solution).

Sorry, but why on earth did you think a cream cabinet would look good with a white toilet? You need to hire an interior designer or paint the cabinet. Do NOT get colored counters, that will look terrible and dated in just a few years. Yuck!

http://www.silestoneusa.com/colors/color/blue-sahara/

What about something blue on the counter? Blue is a good neutral and goes with both cream and gray. The link above might pull the two colors together since it's already got some cream and gray tones in it? Or even a bluer silestone.

Okay, if you don't like white marble, what about a silestone color that may bridge the gap?

http://www.silestoneusa.com/colors/

Quasar, Halley, Pacific, Atlantis, Merope, Mountain Mist, Istmo?

Also,,what shape and layout is the tile?

If you don't like gray- paint your vanity black, white or gray and then do a white silestone or quartz counter. Do double sinks even if you don't need them- just one will look odd and the next home owners will want double (that's way more desirable). If you don't want to use the second bowl, just stick a plant in it


Then- if you want some sort of sage/green color, do some towels in that color, do some sort of framed art with the colors, etc.

I know it's tough to paint a new cabinet, but that will really solve your problem without spending a lot of $$

Pp, just read responses. Seems like everyone agrees with the marble

Go with rain cloud corian or a corian that resembles marble, if you have to go with corian. Otherwise, for an extra few hundred you could get carrara marble.

Use a grout renew and change the color if the grout. Doesn't sound bad enough to rip out to me

OP it's perfectly fine to only put one sink in the vanity if you have two vanities. My sink is on the right side of my double vanity and so is DH's in his vanity. It's nbd and looks great. Don't put two sinks in your "hers vanity".

I think the worst mistake in the bathroom is the green corian. If you HAVE to go with corian, don't use a color, use a solid. I hate Corian though and would prefer pretty much anything over that for resale.