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Reader’s Bathrooms: Splatgirl’s Blue Lagoon

Maxwell Ryan
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Maxwell left teaching in 2001 to start Apartment Therapy as a design business helping people to make their homes more beautiful, organized AND healthy. The website started up in 2004 with the help of his brother, Oliver. Since then he has grown ApartmentTherapy.com, added…read more
updated Jun 4, 2019
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(Welcome to Bathroom Month! We’re taking inspiring bathroom submissions from our readers and giving gifts in return. Join us. All info is here.)

Welcome to Splatgirl!

Hello! I would love to share my bathroom. I designed and DIY’d this room from scratch. It includes a poured concrete Japanese soaking tub, concrete countertops and a 9 1/2 foot tall tile mosaic shower wall. It has his and hers vanities and a double shower with ceiling mount rain heads…

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As far as bathrooms go, it was done very inexpensively and incorporates some ideas that I think are useful and fun whether one is on a budget or not. (I think I spent about 3K total on the room.)
From the $48 sconces that look super high-end to the shower that I tiled in basic 4 1/4″ white ceramic and blue glass gobs purchased in bulk to the marine vinyl used as partitions instead of expensive tempered glass panels, I think it’s a testament to what you can do with a limited budget and some creativity (and a lot of hard work!).

Sconces-lightinguniverse.com
Sinks-Escher Quadro by Whitehaus
Faucets-Ebay
Shower fixtures and tub filler-Hudson Reed
Vanity-modified IKEA kitchen cabinets with Abstrakt white doors
Toilet-Toto Nexus
Mirrors-IKEA
Towel bars and hooks, Danze
Paint-Behr, from a kids Disney color chip
Tile-white 4 1/4″ square ceramic with glass
Shower partition-heavy weight marine vinyl panels (what boat windows are made from)

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