Budget is the name of the game, but you'd never know after taking a peek at Andi and Dean's newly renovated bathroom. Following the purchase of their San Francisco Victorian last year, the couple has taken on the remodel room by room. Check out the amazing transformation of their master bath!
After falling in love with an Anne Sacks tile that was slightly over budget, the couple did some research and found a similar Italian porcelain for less. Arranged in a herringbone pattern, the 4" x 24" tiles are stunning. The walls are clad in a classic subway tile and painted a soft green, creating a soothing spa-like atmosphere.
Discovering the perfect sink base at Restoration Hardware for a whopping $1,200 encouraged the the couple to take matters into their own hands. They hit the jackpot at the Restoration Hardware Outlet where the metal base cabinet was less than one third of the price. The medicine cabinets, also purchased at the Restoration Hardware Outlet, complete the industrial sink area for a fraction of the cost.
Restoring the orignal 1890's tub became Andi's labor of love. The four step process began by sanding the exterior of the cast iron tub. Next, she primed it with rustoleum, then painted the tub with a flat grey paint, and finished it with sealant. For the shower hardware, the couple found a nearby company that specializes in fixtures for antique style baths, giving the tub a fresh finish while maintaining the vintage aesthetic.
Andi and Dean have adopted a "learn by doing" approach to their remodel which appears to be paying off in a big way. Check out some of their other projects on their blog project nest, where they document the remodel step by step, with lots of tips for other diy'ers. And stay tuned for their house tour when the renovation is complete!
Resources:
• Italian Porcelain Floor Tile - Casalgrande Padana in Argento: Buy Tile
• Bathtub: Interior professionally finished by Miracle Method
• Shower Hardware: Sunrise Specialty
• Towel Bar: Restoration Hardware Outlet
• Towel Cabinet: Craigslist, painted in Parisian Green from Philips Perfect Color
• Medicine Cabinet: Restoration Hardware Outlet
• Marble Countertop: Blue Sky Marble from Marble City Company
• Sink Base: Restoration Hardware Outlet
• Wall tile: Daltile, Subway Tile from Home Depot
• Wall Paint: Aguaverte from Philips Perfect Color
• Light Fixtures at Sink: Shades of Light
Before Image: Andi & Dean; After Images: Kathryn Wiens
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What an amazing reno. I absolutely love the herringbone patterned floors. The sinks look great, but then again i love anything that's not an impractical vessel sink. Great job all around!
Oh! Pretty! great job, and those floors are beautiful!
wow...so amazing! Love the new bathroom!
anyone know a similar paint color? I love that wall color!!!!
This is really beautiful! I would love to know what the total budget came out to. There is only one thing I don't like, mixing the chrome sink base with brushed nickel faucets. But otherwise really wonderful makeover!
very nice, soothing
Wow, this is a spectacular reno. The floors are amazing!
yeah the chrome and brushed nickel together makes me... uncomfortable. and i kinds wish they had gone with a similar style faucet, BUT its truly beautiful! this is like my dream bathroom!
super fabulous!
Close your toilet when photographing the bathroom; ugly and tacky to leave it open. That said, well done, beautiful new room.
Wow!! Normally I'm not a fan of gray, but the tile and tub are FABULOUS
love. oh, for that kind of space in my master bath... love the floor tile!
Absolutely beautiful!! It makes me even more excited to tackle our master bathroom renovation.
I love a claw foot tub. Amazing job!
Budget??? With all that plumbing moving around, I think it was hardly cheap! Like 20k?
The natural light from the good size window really enhances the color scheme. Fantastic claw foot tub - wish I had an old bathroom with such a relic to save!
I KNEW someone was going to comment on the toilet lid.
@HouseOnClintonAve - I painted my bathroom a similar muted greeny grey colour: Martha Stewart's Garden Shed.
Beautiful! So you cut the tile into strips? Because I'm seeing 12x24 on the site.
The paint color looks like the one I just used in my bathroom, silver sage - also from restoration hardware. I love the floor but the combination of nickel chrome and bronze definitely makes me cringe.
Love the floors!
I would prefer a new waste basket.
Beautiful but certainly not "budget" (at least not in my world). Paying a plumber to move the plumbing around and an electrician to do the lighting must have cost a bundle.
Holy moly!!! This is AMAZING!!!!
Gorgeous. Well done!
super fantastic. I love the floor.
Even though I know it would have been a giant pain in the ass I would absolutely go back in time and tile my kitchen/dining room with that herringbone pattern. Stunning.
If only I'd seen this post 6 months ago :(
LOVE LOVE LOVE
wow! nice work
Stunning!
Am SO GLAD that you kept that glorious tub.
@laurabelk & @rmlesq: Mixing fixture finishes wasn't our first choice but we did it for 2 reasons. First, budget. As Holiday05 surmised, although we renovated the bath on a set budget, the renovation was not cheap overall ($14,000). About 1/3 of our budget was paid to our plumber and electrician to move fixtures around and bring the electrical work up to code. We also had to demo a large portion of the plaster walls and old bead board wainscot so we had a great deal of gyp board work and patching to close the space up. Finally we lowered the ceiling (from 12.5’ to 11’) to add a mechanical fan and had to frame and gyp that as well. With all of this additional work just to change the layout to make it more functional, we had to find creative ways to make everything else cheaper; we couldn’t spend the $$$ on the fixtures we really wanted. Secondly, we used a polished chrome faucet in our powder room that we added to our apartment earlier in the year and it is always covered in fingerprints. That annoys us terribly so we wanted to use a finish that is more resistant to fingerprints. The faucets are satin nickel but their finish is darker than normal satin nickel and in the photo (and somewhat in real life) the finish looks almost like brushed nickel.
Glad everyone is enjoying our labor of love! Our 3 weeks of tears, curses, and lack of shower really paid off for us. We are very happy with the final product and enjoy all of your comments—positive and not so positive. All comments are welcome because we still have a kitchen to do! (Does this ever end?!?!)
Yeah, that definitely does not look like a "budget" job. It looks incredible. Way to go!
What an amazing job. I've never seen grey done so well in a bathroom. This is one of my favorite bathroom renovations.
Gorgeous! The floor, especially, is stunning.
Love that the wall tile meets up beautifully with the window sill... magic is made (or lost) where elements like this meet.
KUDOs!!
(the whole toilet lid up/down thing is an issue in every house ahahahah)
Love the herringbone floors. Fiona - they also sell the 4 x 24 - see http://www.buytile.com/home.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17_90&products_id=11842&szid=81
It's beautiful - though my concept of "budget" and theirs is obviously very different.
Nice!!! Good Job!
This is simply amazing! I am shocked at how beautiful the end result is! Congrats!!
gor.ge.ous!
absolutely love it!
Amazing job.
terrific!
Beautiful. They should be really proud of themselves!
This bathroom looks very nice, but it certainly is not "budget" in my world. Nice job though.
I like everything about this redo except for the faucets (would prefer them less modern and in shiny chrome, not brushed, to match the other metal). Otherwise, this is just beautiful. Fantastic work!
Really, really beautifully done. Agree with others that I wouldn't call this a 'budget' renovation, though.
Wow, that's a great reno! 14K isn't chump change, but they definitely saved on the sinks/bath/subway tile. Moving plumbing isn't cheap!
I could redo my whole kitchen for that cost...
Beautiful Job. Love the floors and the tub. If you take into consideration the new plumbing it looks like a bathroom that cost way more than 14,000.
JOB VERY WELL DONE!
Beautiful bathroom! I love the flooring, storage armoire and the claw foot tub. I am not a fan of the mismatched finishes, as others have mentioned. When spending $14,000, I would think adding just a couple hundred more would be like a drop in the bucket to get the look you were really going for. Splurge for those chrome finished period fitting faucets...as well as the light fixture. It just doesn't fit. A schoolhouse pendant in a chrome finish (schoolhouseelectric.com) would be a great match for this bathroom. A job well done! Just a couple of changes to add that icing on the cake.
are you sure its the same bathroom?
adorable!!!!
Wow!!
I Love it. it's beautiful. and i especially like what you did with the tub. Great Job!
Smart color!
That's beautiful. I love how it looks like it could be original to the Victorian era house. I was ready to think that I'd be sad that the wainscoting was gone, but the tile looks wonderful.
Love it but wonder how the hand-held shower works with the shower curtain once it is drawn along its track as it ends up on the wrong side of the curtain.
and gosh there is a lot of toilet paper all up!
Personally,I think that the difference in finishes is interesting. Why must everything be matchy matchy? A decision that was made due to budgetary considerations morphed into a serendipitous winning strategy!
That is a beautiful bathroom. But, it hardly sounds "budget", they've at least spent a few thousand. They've even moved things around, that can't be cheap!
totally impressed. as someone who dreams of having a project like this to do in the future, i'm bookmarking this page.
Much better use of space than the old room, and lovely to boot.
Something in me rebels at the exposed toilet paper, though. I think I'd be forced to frost the glass doors. :)
This is gorgeous! I love the tiles, the cabinets, the tub--heck, all of it!
Gorgeous subtle textures and colors, perfect for the space. I don't mind that the metals don't match perfectly. Also love the floor.
Love the cabinet. Great job!
sorry to bandwagon but is hard to resist doing so since the post headline "...on a budget"
a budget is subjective but re-locating electrical and a toilet hole [especially] are most expensive barriers in any bathroom before & after.
I really, really love the overall look. The transformation is utterly stunning. But I hate the metal sink bases. Ugh. So institutional looking. It reminds me of some awful hospital. Everything else looks so classic and quaint. I just don't get how you arrived at those metal things.
Wow, gorgeous. I am in love with the floor and the tub. Very nice work.
Gorgeous, but I hardly believe it to be a 'budget reno' - given the redesign of the room, there would be plumbing involved as well as the tiling and fixtures. As someone looking to do something like this with my bathroom, it's hard to know whether it's cost effective.
Still, result looks nice.
Great job!
This turned out a-mazing! So in love with this!
I LOVE the after!
But please don't call it a budget reno when all the plumbing is moved.
That is by far the most expensive way to reno a bath.
What a remarkable job! It's beautiful. I was wondering (because have this problem myself), how do you protect the wood window molding from the water coming from the shower?
I love nickel fixtures and would have stayed with them exclusively, but the bath is beautiful. You really got bang for the buck, too:)
(I'm a fixture monger who examines hardware in people's older homes and in public spaces lol. I love all the old nikel in government buildlings lol.)
Oh my goodness! Greatest bathroom reno EVER! I love clawfoot tubs, and I don't like traditional vanities. This is perfection for me!
I just can't stop looking at it. So beautiful. Congrats on restoring that gorgeous old tub.
Gorgeous. Thanks so much for being so upfront with the costs.
Hmmm, I think it's ok to call it "on a budget" because most of the fixes that readers would adopt were done on the cheap,such as going to Restoration outlet (which I didn't know existed), cutting tile to get the herringbone pattern, painting the tub, etc.
It looks fantastic.
it's very nice yet it reminds me of a prison cell, it must be the grey.
This looks great!
Does anybody know the material for the flooring, and what this pattern is called? It looks like it could be a composite material, I absolutely love it!
(sigh) To each his own...
Here in the midwest, $14000 is my yearly retirement income...
I like period style...and was looking forward to a warm redo. Instead, Brrrrr.
A window in a bathroom is a bonus and a good period design, plus the nice window trim...Let's set the tub and hardware and shower curtain right in front of it, why don't we?
Nice gain of a second sink and the storage cupboard, but alas, something was lost, too. Warmth and 14 grand, IMO.
Sorry.
Where is a Restoration Hardware outlet?
Simply beautiful - the palette, the materials - lovely! Job well done.
Wow what a transformation! $1400 is a bit steep.
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That's lovely. I'm not sure in what world $14k is "budget," however.
I do wish the tile went a little higher. Maybe it's the angle of the shots, or budget, but it seems sort of low, like the wall color is pushing down on it or something.
BTW I'm just jealous because I can't even afford to breath the air at Restoration Hardware. ;)
Good job folks! I hope you love your new bathroom and you should be very proud of your hard work!
um.. floors? AMAZING? is it ceramic or stone?
Love Love Love your bathroom. I don't care how much it cost you. It's your money and if that is what you could fit in your budget, then good for you.
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't like the new floor tiles. I think the herringbone pattern looks odd with such long tiles, and would have worked better if they were shorter. I think the color of the floor is dark and dreary, and it kinda-sorta looks like linoleum to me. I didn't see anything wrong with the old ones, actually.
While I love the overall finish immensely, I don't understand why you didn't make the pointy end of the herringbone pattern face the door. From what I can tell, this is a quite narrow bathroom, and to have tiles layed up following the wall emphasizes that.
I'd have turned the tiles 45°. We did that in our very square kitchen, to break the symetry. While it is a lot more work because you have to cut a lot of tiles near the walls, it really was worth it.
Beautiful work though ! Love the bath reno !
Gorg.
That tile is very similar to the metalwood tile I just did my bath with, though I actually used it on the wall. Pretty inexpensive for the look too - I think it was just under $5/sq ft.
eh. You couldn't pay me to live with that bathroom.
It's just fab. I love it so much. The tub is amazing!
LOVE. I love that they didn't go super modern (I HATE super modern-style bathrooms in 100+ year old houses!)
And their old bathroom looks *so* much like the bathroom I currently have in my apartment in a 100 year old rowhouse--and the after is almost exactly what I dream of being able to do if I owned the place (and had the money!)
LOVE.
Perfect. Love it!
new dream bathroom found.
Sharp...
Goodness. I come back a year later and I can't believe how much flack they got for a brushed nickel faucet, having the toilet seat up and "preferring another wastebasket." (Really? That's your only comment?) Talk about people seeing the glass half empty!
Still think this is gorgeous.
I am so impressed with this renovation! Using a 4" x 24" floor tile in a herringbone pattern brings a modern element into the room in a subtle way. Love it! As for the 3" x 6" subway tile...... I am kind of tired of it, but in this case it works well. Great light fixture! Again subtle and updated, yet not too over the top. The vanity is gorgeous! And the paint color could not be better. Dare to go GREEN! : ) The reference to the floor tile is missing some information. The manufacturer is Casalgrande, the Series is Metalwood, and the color is Argento. I can't wait to start on my house I just purchased. Should I go green on the walls too? lol
amazing!