One Room Challenge {Week 5}: Choosing Modern Bathroom Fixtures
We’re inward the habitation stretch my friends! It’s calendar week v of the vi calendar week One Room Challenge. We are moving into the lastly calendar week of our modern bath renovation. If you lot read my post service lastly week, you lot in all probability know that I was feeling pretty confident nigh getting everything done. Well… this calendar week life happened. We didn’t teach nearly every bit far every bit nosotros hoped, as well as at nowadays we’re scrambling ane time again to teach it all done! We may direct a few nights upwards past times midnight! I’ll portion our progress below, but first, I wanted to portion simply about quick tips for finding affordable modern bath fixtures, similar the ones nosotros chose for our space.
*This post service was sponsored past times The Home Depot. As always, opinions are 100% my own. For to a greater extent than information, delight come across my disclosure page.*
If you lot missed anything as well as you lot desire to grab up, hither are the previous weeks:
week 1 // week 2 // week 3 // week 4 // week 5
Tips for Choosing Affordable Modern Bathroom Fixtures:
When it comes to designing a space, it tin live pretty stressful as well as really expensive. It’s tough to strike a residuum betwixt finding affordable pieces, as well as getting the high-end hold off you’re after. If you’re looking to abide by simply about budget-friendly bath fixtures, hither are a few tips to assistance you lot teach that modern look:
1. Clean Lines – Look for pieces alongside build clean straight off lines, that mightiness furnish a rigid contrast betwixt dissimilar elements inward the space. Such every bit this gorgeous Obsidian freestanding tub from Universal Tubs. It’s dark complete volition popular against the white tile walls as well as flooring surrounding it inward our bath design.
2. Less is More Design – Choose pieces that don’t direct a lot of angles, colours, or striking pattern elements. Sometimes uncomplicated pieces brand a bigger as well as amend statement. The can nosotros select for our space, sleek new American Standard Cadet toilet, is non that dissimilar from a measure toilet, except that is has polish lines as well as a concealed trap (all the plumbing is hidden behind the sleek body). Small changes similar that don’t brand a huge deport on on your budget, but tin brand a large divergence to the overall design.
3. Play alongside Geometric Patterns – Patterns ever brand a bold statement, as well as inward bathrooms, geometric patterns are oftentimes a focal indicate inward the tile, but that tin transfer to finishes on the fronts of vanities, mirrors, as well as low-cal fixtures too. Our beautiful corner shower from DreamLine if the perfect example of this, bringing inward lots of visual involvement to the space.
4. Shop inward Stores and Online – One of the best pieces of advice I direct for finding affordable modern pieces at your box stores, is to banking corporation agree online! They tin only direct as well as then many pieces on the shelf inward stores as well as if you lot banking corporation agree out the stores online, in that place are oftentimes a ton of options that are exclusively sold online.
I promise those quick tips assistance you lot abide by what you’re looking for. They helped me abide by the beautiful pieces I chose for our bathroom, as well as I’m thrilled alongside the choices nosotros made!
As far every bit the renovation goes, nosotros got a few of our projects done. One large exceptional was to teach all of the matting as well as wiring inward identify for the heated floors. Now the floors were ready for tiling.
The adjacent affair nosotros got done was icon the ceiling. We were icon slow into the night, but it was worth it – I’ve ever wanted a dark ceiling!
We used a pigment nosotros already had, which had a semi-gloss complete to it. I honey love honey the colour, but I’m non alone certain that I honey the semi-gloss. Actually, I’m alone certain I don’t similar it. UGH! Would it live crazy to repaint alongside a apartment complete it inward my terminal week? I intend it mightiness live worth it…
And finally nosotros got the flooring tile down! It took a long fourth dimension to teach the tile installed, as well as nosotros nevertheless direct to grout the floor, but it’s looking amazing already!
As always, my obsessive list-making skills come upwards out! Here’s our modern bath to-do list:
Demo the spaceChoose fixtures as well as faucetsMove plumbingMove electricalRe-frame novel wallDecide on finishes for vanity as well as storage wardrobesInstall curb-less drainInstall heated flooringTile floor- Tile walls
Buy rugBuy accessories- Install fixtures as well as faucets
- Install door
- Build shelving
- Build found stand
As you lot tin see… nosotros genuinely nevertheless direct a ton of function to do. I’m honestly worried that nosotros won’t live able to complete it all, but we’re gonna burn downwardly the midnight stone oil all calendar week as well as come across if nosotros tin teach it done inward time!
Find to a greater extent than corking One Room Challenge pattern plans on the One Room Challenge site!
Comments
Post a Comment