A little bit of inspiration: something old, something new

Love this bathroom. I really like the mix of old and modern. The stainless steel bowl on the old wood table looks amazing! Great inspiration

wallpaper in the bathroom

I was wondering the other day of it was possible to place wallpaper in the bathroom. With all the steam, I was wondering if the paper would really stick to the walls. Well these 2 photos show us great examples of bathroom with wallpapers. It creates a great statement

My bathroom

Do you remember my ugly 2 room bathroom. Here are the before photos.
We have worked a lot and it's finally getting there. Here is small update on the renovations.
Sorry for the bad photos.. but it think the changes are still very noticeable.
So we destroy the wall between the tub and the toilet and destroyed a small closet on the side and move everything and changed everything. What do you think?
I love it! Here are all the details and cost.
The shower:
Love my shower. It's big and warm and perfect. So perfect in fact that I have the hardest time getting out of it to go to work in the morning. We bought the base and glass panels at the hardware store for around 1000$. It was very hard to bring it home. Those glass doors weighted a ton. And we broke one glass panel on our first trip. The tiles were bought at a ceramic stores and they are italian I think. They were 9$ the square feet. The shower head was bought on ebay for 199$. It's half plastic, half metals. And it comes with 4 water jets and a large rain forest shower head. It was very easy to install.
The vanity:
The vanity is a ikea hack. We bought the new ikea's vanity and we added a granit countertop and 2 ceramic sinks to it. It looks amazing. We had shopped around for a vanity but they were all so expensive ( more than a 1000$ and we still had to buy the sinks and faucets) that we decided to customize the ikea one to our need. It wasn't cheap ( ikea vanity 299$, sinks 100$ each, faucet 40$ each, granit around 300$)
The bath tub:
We shopped a lot for this one. And we finally found this squared bathtub at a small shop for 430$. The ceramics were bought were 7$ the square feet.

That's about it
IT was really more expensive than I taught.
Mostly because we had to redo a lot of the pluming, but the result are just perfect.

If you have any questions or want more details on this bathroom transformation feel free to write to me.

lovely mirrors

love this mirrors
could they fit in my modern bathroom?

bathroom floorplan

VARIATIONS

here are the bathroom floorplan
I really love option no3 but I'm afraid that the space between the shower and the toilet bowl is too small. I don't want to hit my head on the shower glass wall every time I stand up.
So we are looking into variations
What do you think?
Which one do you prefer?

final bathroom inspiration

So my interior designer and I finally decided on the inspiration look.

Here it is. I just love the metalic tiles! We are doing 2 squares sinks instead of one with 2 faucets.

By the way, for montrealers out there, I bought 2 modern looking faucets at home depot. They were 50% off. They cost only $40 ( in the last call sale section). It's quite a bargain!

Now I just need to find the right tub! any suggestions on where to shop for that kind of tub near montreal.

bathroom inspiration

This week we are starting the bathroom demolition... so I need to decide the bathroom layout.

here is my latest inspiration. Any suggestions?

antique bathtubs

(image source:Kathryn Russell)

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I really love antique bathtubs with their beautiful claw feets. For me, an standing bathtub is almost a piece of art in the bathroom or in any room. I have been wanting to get one since we made a offer on the house. But their price was a bit scary for my budget ( the cheapest is $689 at home depot but it can go up to $2000). Any how, I prefer the real antique ones to the new ones at the hardware store.
So with this in mind, my quest for my antique bathtub began. I went on every websites I could think of ( craig list, kijiji, etc) and searched for one. And finally after a long search, I found one on freecycle for free!! It took 2 strong men and a pickup to bring it back home but I had finally my antique bathtub.
The only problem is that it is pretty small ( only 4feet long, but the size could be perfect for a table) Anyway if, I don't use it in my bathroom... I'll use it somewhere else, like on these photos