Tag: bathroom remodel

Our Spanish-style bathroom remodel is finally done!

Before and after.

Before and after.

The first time he walked into the finished bathroom, Mike exclaimed, “look at this bathroom for adults!” My response, and my thoughts every time I’m in it, was, “this feels like a bathroom our parents should be using.” It feels so grown-up and fancy. I can’t believe it’s ours!

My only issue is… since we made the choice to go with oil-rubbed bronze hardware (how amazing does it look in there!?) I found out that it’s not that easy to change out shower hardware. It’s actually such a process that we chose not to do it. So the shower hardware remains silver, while everything else is that gorgeous bronze.

Other than the mis-matched hardware, and the fact that two of the side mirrors for the medicine cabinets arrived broken, I’m head-over-heals in the love with this bathroom remodel…

How to get this Spanish-style bathroom look:

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Let there be walls and a whole lot of dust: An update on the move-in remodel

Things are trucking along at an alarmingly fast rate over in Move-in Renovation Land!

laundry room before and after

In the last, what?, week our contractor has torn down the bedroom closet and ripped out the back of the laundry closet. Then re-built a new bedroom closet and pushed back the laundry closet wall 7 inches, in order to accommodate a regular size washer and dryer.

Soon that empty laundry closet (that I think looks like a TARDIS when the blue door is shut) will be filled with these babies…

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A whole lot of transitional double sink bathroom vanities that have cool open spaces

This post is exactly what the title says: A whole lot of transitional double sink bathroom vanities that have cool open spaces. It’s not exciting, but I did the research so, why not share!?

My favorite bathroom from our hotel room in Cartagena, Colombia.

My favorite bathroom from our hotel room in Cartagena, Colombia.

My entire bathroom remodel idea was inspired by our hotel room in Cartagena, Colombia! It had the greatest bathroom of any hotel room stay in my life. And I realized… holy shit, we could TOTALLY steal this look for Mike’s master bathroom — spanish style bathroom with beige tiles, add a double sink bathroom vanity, dark wood, carrera marble counter tops, double mirrors… fucking sexy.

So I was on the hunt for dark wood (preferably Spanish-style) double sink bathroom vanities with open spaces in 70″ or longer widths. Here’s what I found:

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