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Jill is obsessive. She bought this apartment near Wall Street and then moved to California for 5 years. Undaunted by the distance, she managed and renovated it by phone, and constantly found new things to do. Now that she is back living in the city (in the apt.) she is working on the bathroom.
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We will follow this through to completion - and surely get some words from her on the matter (Jill?) - but, for the record, this bathroom is purportedly going from BLAND to BEAUTIFUL through the generous use of Hakatai Glass Tiles (Oregon). (Thanks, Jill!) MGR
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AND she's got a cute demo dude working right in her very own home. Lucky Jill.
Yes, where to begin.
I don't live there yet, but the most recent big job is the bathroom. Hopefully I will live there within the week.
I can talk appliances, I can talk tiles, I can talk fixtures, I can talk of the infinite stress and inconvenience of renovation.
One correction is that the tiles I worked so hard to find--from Hakatai--don't work in the bathroom and I am selling them. (lovely custom blue/clear/white mix of 1"x1" tiles. 112 square feet in all.) I have decided to go for all white/minimal/modern instead. The ceilings are very low and the bathroom is small. Subway tiles on the wall and Beautiful Heath Ceramics matte white rectangular tiles on the floor. I bought them in the back room of the Heath factory in Sausalito, California and had them mailed to Manhattan.
This factory is incredible. Heath is an internationally renowned ceramics designer/manufacturer that has been in play since the 1950's. Their design/aesthetic has not changed much in the past 50 years making it retro gone classic. The materials and colors have been slightly updated overtime. The company has been taken over but the land beneath the factory remains in a Heath Ceramics Trust. I recommend checking out the website www.heathceramics.com/. The best deal, however, is if you are in the San Francisco/Bay Area and can get to their huge back room of tile seconds--a beautiful and vast selection that can be instantly overwhelming to the wishy-washy. I spent about 3 hours in that back room until I settled on my white elegant floor tiles.
The bathroom is half done and my tenant/contractor is still on vacation. The floor is on its 3rd layer of acrylic outdoor porch paint--in white--and because of the rain, may never dry.
The movers are due to arrive this weekend, while the tenant will be working on the bathroom, I will be cleaning the walls, and my first guest is due to arrive from San Francisco.
Other than that things are going slightly smoothly and yes, it will eventually be wonderful.
Hi Jill (or anyone else who knows!),
Can you tell me where you got the subway tiles? I know one Apartment Therapy reader said she got some from Madison, WI, but I was hoping to find some locally. Also, is there a specific "subway tile" per se, or can you get any tile that is the proper proportions? Would it be the same?
Thanks.
They have subway tiles at HOME DEPOT!