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love love love the flooring!

Gorgeous!

Just love the encaustic tile!

Great job and what a difference! I love the floor tile. Who makes it?

Whoa - I love it. Those tiles (floor and subway) are killer. Well done.

It looks spectacular. I love the tile even more than I did the other, which I liked. I would love to see a little more green in the room, like maybe a shower curtain or towel or something(although I love that one. Or maybe a real plant!

Anyway... congratulations on such a beautiful result and an affordable price; it's so much easier to live with something that has both of those qualities, isn't it?

Those tiles look great opposed to the minimal style of everything else!

Beautiful tiles! I really like the white shower curtain and big fluffy white towels too - with the detailed floor I think they are just right.

Well done!

Is that cement tile? They look similar to the tiles I saw in the place I was staying at in Mexico.

Please! Tell me where you got your vanity! Pretty please?

Looks really great. Really pretty, but not too stark or austere. Would love it if you would share links to your sources for the vanity, sconces, tiles...basically any links you have! It's amazing how much personality the floor adds to the space, nice choice.

Really well done. It looks great. My only concern is the floor tile (which I LOVE). It is so distinctive that it will probably seem rather dated before the rest of the bathroom is. It already has a very 1970's flavor, so it won't be everyone's cup of tea. Oh well, I guess that's a problem for the next owners!

OMG, your 'before' looks like my bathroom's twin. Nice to see the "after" for inspiration (and motivation to save up some $$$ to get it remodeled!).

Congratulations on your beautiful new space.

I think that tile really looks awesome. I guess I missed the original post about this, but we often see sleek and plain bathrooms, which appeals to people, so clean and white and bright - just changing the tile to something unexpected and patterned, it adds something nice and uncommon.

I also like the thought put into the floating vanity to leave room for a stool and bath toys. A lot of people stuff toys inside the cabinet where they are harder to get at, or relinquish total control and leave them inside the bathtub, and leave the stepstool on the floor in front of the vanity, just no place to set it aside. I like design that thinks of the use for one's children but doesn't just give up and let this break up the whole look like a playground.

Great job Christina! Love it!

Very pretty! May I ask where the sconces are from?

very nice- well done!

Beautiful results!

The tile for the floor: Was it very difficult to cut? Roughly how much was it sq/ft?

That looks so great! You transformed a typical before into a really unique and stylish after!

love it

Thanks everyone! We couldn't be happier with how it turned out. We know that the flooring is a very unique choice, but before we did the renovation, we sat down and talked about it and decided we would probably live in this house for the rest of our lives, so to hell with neutral resaleability! That really made this a lot more fun.

The flooring comes from Tierra Y Fuego, a company based here in San Diego (though they sell online, too):
www.tierrayfuego.com

They have amazing black and white encaustics, too, if you were going for a more glamorous look!

The vanity is the "Caesar Picasso Teak Vanity" and it came from surplusdecor.com. There's a really nice matching mirror, too (though we decided we'd rather have sconces than the shelved mirror). The sconces are West Elm. :)

Would you be able to give the dimensions of this bathroom? We have a space that looks to be a similar size that we want to convert into a bathroom and I would love to compare.

It looks great--I love the floating vanity!

Thanks so much for posting the after- your original post was really exciting to me, and I've been visualizing the after for weeks!

You've done a beautiful job- I love the sconces you picked and how they mimic the shape and color of the floating vanity. The tile is beautiful, the colors harmonize perfectly, you've got a great blend of textures... congratulations!

Duzer - our bathroom is 5'x9' (well, 4'10"x9', really), so it's about as small as small can be!

Oh, and to the question about flooring, we had our contractor cut the tile - he just used a saw blade made for cutting cement, and didn't seem to have any trouble with it. The floor was pretty expensive - about $9/tile (each tile is 10"x10"), but we saved on the subway tile by buying the $2/sf tile from Lowe's, so it sort of evened out the cost.

Something to keep in mind with this tile is that it has to be sealed BEFORE you grout (that delayed the project a day), or else the grout can haze the tile. It's also REALLY thick, so we used Ditra as subfloor (we have a floating foundation - if you have slab, you could lay the tile right on the floor, i think) to keep the thickness down.

like the new floor and the color you decided on going with. I remember thinking that I didn't know how the floating sink would look in the room, but it looks great. Just wondering, did you end up going all the way to the ceiling with the subway tile? I thought that the person saying that no room is PERFECTLY plumb made a valid point and was just curious.

Beautiful job...not often that bathrooms exhibit such warm and stylish personality, but this "after" certainly does!

WOW. Those tiles are amazing. It is something that I would probably think is tacky when looking at the samples, but they look AMAZING in your bathroom. Excellent job!!

That floor is fantastic! What a beautiful job!

I was also thinking that you don't need a lot of other stuff going on for some interest in the bathroom, because of the tile, but you also have a lot of nice colors you could work with, if you decided later to make it a more vibrant statement. I like how it came out.

Thanks for the info!

And can't get enough of that floor.

Looks absolutely gorgeous! Beautiful choice of tile.

Those floor tiles aren't to my taste, but they do add a lovely spot of color.

holy cow it looks SO similar to my dream bathroom, especially the vanity!

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hi! congratulations on your beautiful bathroom! you must be thrilled!! would you mind sharing the name of your contractor? thanks so much!

I LOVE how your bathroom turned out. I especially love that pale blue paint color on the walls. Would you mind sharing the name of it and who makes it? I've been looking for the perfect shade of pale blue and I think this is it.

Our contractor's name is Victor Gastellum. He's in the San Diego area - if you're in the area, email chrysalis5@yahoo.com and I'll send you his contact info.

The paint is Behr, and the color is "Sage Tint." It looks a little greener than pictured in the morning light (a little more robin's-egg), but in the evening, the color is pretty much exactly what you see there.

re: tiling to the ceiling, we did tile to the ceiling in the bathroom, and the walls aren't perfectly plumb, but they were close enough that the imperfection doesn't show through the running bond (the contractor ran the tile to the corners so that all of the tiles were cut - none were laid along their finished edge, which really helped hide any warp). Seeing the results, though, I wouldn't try this with a grid pattern.

mediocrates,

What are the dimensions of your bathroom? You vanity is beautiful! I'd love to see if it would work in my bathroom.

Wow, that floor is stunning! I'm so glad you updated - I've bookmarked the tile website. Your bathroom looks great. :)

Oh my GOODNESS this is gorgeous and stunning. Wonderful and inspiring! I have a teeny bathroom. Acually much smaller than this. The toilet is across from the sink.

Its really hard to find a teeny vanity to fit the space. We just have a small, vintage sink bolted to the wall. The step stool sits under it, but my little girl bonks her head on it. I want a vanity!

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, I am LOVING the floor. That's the first thing that struck me. I love the sink too - unconventional shape. And the width of the mirror makes the bathroom appear a lot bigger than it actually is.

Great job. What a transformation from the original.

ohmygoodness. i was just googling encaustic tile for my bathroom reno, and this is pretty much everything i picked for *my* bathroom, down to the colours! eep! well, it's nice to know that what i had envisioned will actually work out beautifully :)