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BEAUTIFUL job!!! Love the white and blue. & I love the little circle mirrors on the side of the sink!
Wow.

I'm missing something - Where's the oak floor?

Circle mirrors are at Target... or at least something similar is.

Plumeria:
Thank you! And, yes, we did get the circle mirrors at Target. They came with nice little hangers and were easy to put up.

Bepsf:
I wanted the white bathroom to have a big POP! So I painted the white oak floors that Robin's Egg Blue color. For step-by-step on painting floors for a bathroom (or other high humidity situation), you can the details here:
http://cottageofstone.blogspot.com/2009/02/diy-painting-hardwood-floors.html

And for the full pictorial on the story, I have all my master bathrooms posts labeled:
http://cottageofstone.blogspot.com/search/label/master%20bathroom

Thank you for including me! My first submission! (If you cannot tell, we are very excited at the Cottage of Stone!)

-- Sarah Beth / Puck

I'm with bepsf... the white oak floor is blue? *confused*

The type of wood we used is "white oak." The only reason I specified which kind of oak is so people could locate it on Lumber Liquidator if they wanted. They have a jillion different grades, and this was actually the most affordable one that was usable. The cheaper grades, they called rustic, have burn marks, missing tongue/grooves, knots, etc.

Looks nice but this could of been achieved by using a resilient flooring in blue and saving a tree.

I suppose so... but my entire home has hardwood floors... and as a preservationist in a historic home, this limits my choices of materials.

This was a "surprise project" with a small budget, so the gorgeous Ann Sacks penny rounds were nixxed.

I LOVE the color of the blue floor, but I would also have to say that the same look could have been achieved very successfully with linoleum/ marmoleum. You could really even just paint the subfloor if you smooth the seams.

great job. i wanna put a rubber duckie on the back of the toilet. i dont know why, i just do.

This bathroom looks clean and simple, nicely done. By the way Sarah describes it, I'm not sure if the pictures do it justice. In person, I'm pretty sure a floor with a wood grain that has an egg blue color must look great-too bad the pictures can't show that detail.

amazing!

I like the floor! and I agree that it makes sense to have it be wood in keeping with the rest of the house. Beautiful work!

Super pretty! I probably would have saved myself the fear factor of wood floors in a bathroom if I was painting 'em blue. Think there are even wood-grain tiles out there that could have achieved the same effect. But hey, my contractor tried to convince me not to install bamboo in my kitchen and that's the only spot in the house that it's held up.

Hip, hip, hooray for a fellow inhabitant of flyover country!

Oooh. I love so much that blue floor. *...add tangerine accents....* It' turned out so light and clean and pretty.

I love the blue floor!! I actually thought the pics w/ the blue floor were the "before" pics of linoleum and was really loving that over the thought of wood floors, so I'm happy to see that those are here to stay.

Stop ragging on her about using wood; she gave her reasons and it's her perogative.

Very pretty and clean looking! Love the blue floor!

I think you have done a lovely job, and the blue floor is very pretty. You are not the first to install a wood floor in a bathroom; although not the most practical flooring, it has been done, and it is your choice.

There is nothing wrong with trying out such flooring -- with doing it just because you want to. But, please do not justify it as a heritage preservation concern -- I am a former heritage conservation officer, am trained in architectural conservation, and have renovated historic homes myself. The historically appropriate floor would have been tile or historic linoleum ( Marmoleum would have been an excellent choice). It is not true to imply that just because the rest of the house has oak, the bathroom floor is somehow limited to oak. And if being historically accurate were truly your aim, you would have removed the glass block window (that is definitely not from the Craftsmen period), and would have found a salvaged pedestal sink and refurbished vintage taps, instead of modern interpretations of "historic".

You have done an admirable job with your bathroom renovation. You do not need to justify your choices or create a misunderstanding of what is entailed by a sensitive historically appropriate or correct renovation.

I do not mean to imply that THIS was a 100% historical effort... without having read the rest of my blog, or seeing the amount of preservation done in the rest of the house, no one would be aware of all our efforts.

However, this project was a surprise one, at a very rough financial time for us, and therefore I wasn't able to do the tile and salvaged fixtures I had wished to. (The children's room upstairs will be done this way as I have already found the fixtures at a salvage shop). Perhaps someday we can work on this room again... but I like the outcome and don't feel the need to tear it out. I love it too much!

Finally, the original floor in this room was hardwood. This room was not originally a bathroom, but I felt compelled to keep the bones of the house as Mr. J.W. Spurgeon, the builder/architect, had intended them.

And I dislike linoluem with a passion.

All that said, hardwood was the choice I made. Don't think that just because I used a new eco-friendly toilet in this room that the rest of my house has not been appropriately appointed.

P.S.

The window stayed because, again, we were on a tiny budget. Someday this will be a wood window again. :) I am in the middle of restoring all the wood windows in our house, which is a huge effort since no one bothered to care for them before.

Lovely job!

Please share how you affixed round mirrors to the wall, I have quite a few round mirrors I want to use in my place, and all I have come up with are those claw plate holders my great grandmother used for her 50 plates from 50 states collection. Any help is much appreciated.