This is our family’s main bathroom. To create it we rearranged the floor plan of our 2nd floor (which was possible because we were renovating our entire house).The existing bathroom was small, outdated and in the back corner of the house. We decided to combine the existing bathroom area with a small adjacent room to make the master bedroom. We were then able to take over a relatively large bedroom for the family bathroom. This gave us a bathroom space that was more family friendly and centrally located in relation to all the bedrooms.
We chose to use a water theme to drive the material choices and overall feel of the space. It also became the room where I was given free rein to apply my most creative visions and skills. The tiles on the floor were originally square porcelain tiles that I felt were too blocky to convey the strong sense of water I was looking for. I designed a tessellating pattern, bought a second hand diamond-bladed band saw and a grinder and set to work cutting.
Once the floor was designed we decided to reflect the wave shapes in the cabinet. We found mirrors with a wave profile and Mark tackled the difficult task of putting the same profile into the door panels. I then hand painted the cabinet to coordinate with the floor.
To create a watery texture on the walls, we hired a painter to do a faux finish. She sponge painted the wall in shades of the greens and blues found elsewhere in the room.
We were lucky enough to discover that Lowes stocked inexpensive porcelain tile that had a very organic watery feel to it. We decided to use it for the shower. We did not have a lot of money for specialty tile so we purchased a limited number of green glass tile to intersperse sparingly. I found inexpensive tile trivets that featured marine animals online and we incorporated them as well.