Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Master Bathroom Tile

After months of looking a tile it took all of a day for our tile guys to install it. We went with Daltile porcelain products on the floor and shower (10x20 on bottom and 10x10 on top). You can see a little of the shower floor in this picture. The river rocks were my splurge :)

The cubbies in the shower were built and in place before the tile was installed. We chose to use the accent tile there. Since we're both engineers we drew out different pattern options on graph paper. Crazy I know! But it made our decision easier when we could see it to scale. We used the 10x20 horizontal below the accent strip and the 10x10 on the diagional above. I'll post a picture of the floor later but we used the 10x20 there as well.

One thing that delayed tile installation was the unlevel floor. We ended up having to use a polymer self leveling system under the tile (which was an unexpected hit to the budget). Usually it doesn't matter if the floor is off because you can shim the vanity and make up the difference. But we had our vanity custom made like a piece of furniture so we couldn't shim.
The granite arrived the other day and the hole for the sink was cut out wrong so that will be replaced :( Anyway, this is what the vanity looks like.