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Originally Posted by Boise_Chief

I'm remodeling 3 bathrooms this month. Tile shower surrounds new marble floors, upgrade the shower doors new vanities new lighting etc. If you weren't so far away I would come do yours.

The thing to do is google image search for tile showers. Find what you like and then pay a guy. The electrical is easy when you have everything torn out.

There isn't dick around here for contractors. Come on down!

I might make a suggestion on yours though. If you're going to tile any shower surrounds, take a look at Onyx. Its a epoxy type material they roll out to look like granite. You just glue it to the walls and it looks great and is easy as hell to clean (especially compared to grouted tile).

My kids bathroom (which anybody that visits will use) was originally a tiled surround then some **** PAINTED (badly mind you) the tile with some....shit. It was awful. Put in an acrylic tub and onyx surround and it looks really nice for not a ton of money.

Who the **** paints tile?

Originally Posted by FlaChief58

So your not actually "redoing" your bathroom since that would entail gutting the whole thing and starting over from scratch.

My suggestion would be to hire an electrician and have him run the power. After that, if you're handy, you should be able to to handle wall repair, flooring and paint.

You're correct. Not a full renovation, but closer than I'd like. Plus there will undoubtedly be a mountain of costs I don't see coming so there's that.

I'm hiring that stuff done. My deal is I work a ****load of hours. More than I want. And they return pretty well. So the margin on home improvement projects is pretty slim. Especially since I'm not particularly good at that kind of stuff. Plus my knees are shot, so I'm not going to spend days on my knees laying tile.

Originally Posted by mac459

Im going to be putting rollouts in my cabinets under my vanity, so I don’t have to lay down to grab shit out of it. Also put up some wainscoting in the kids bathroom and put in wood floors, that helped a lot. I can text you some pictures of that if you want to see them.

Send them.

Originally Posted by Hog's Gone Fishin

This is what I plan on doing this year in my master. Convert my shower stall to a towel closet and take my tub out and put in a nice tile shower.

I might also recommend onyx to you. See above.

Originally Posted by notorious

We remodeled ours at our old house, then sold it.

It resembled a high-end hotel bathroom. Huge Onyx shower, double vanity, slate-like tile, etc.

I wasn't a fan of the huge shower believe it or not. It seemed like their was a lot of wasted space, and it cost a fortune. The glass needs constant cleaning.

When we redid the farm house I put in a large 6'x36 bath tub with Onyx surround in the main bath. More than large enough, and a lot more usable. We can give our toddler baths, etc.

Let me know when you need the floor. I get the rigid-core waterproof plank at cost.

Can you text me a picture of your renovated bathroom.

I'll be in touch on the floor. Do you have a website on that flooring?

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I've redone four bathrooms over the years, and my rules of thumb are;

1. You can never have too much lighting. A brightly lit bathroom is a happy bathroom.
2. The most important single item is the shower faucet. In our daily-driver bathroom, we got some awesome faucet where you can adjust the pressure/water flow without changing the temperature, and it's worth every penny.
3. If your shower is separate from the tub, don't go cheap on the shower base. The cheap plastic stuff won't last, so tile it and build it well.
4. Does anyone use a bathtub any more? I'll watch those home shows and fancy bathrooms always have a standalone soaking tub, and I wonder who uses them. Maybe my wife and I are outliers, but we'd much rather have a larger shower space and no tub.

Good post.

I'm not messing with the shower. Someone before me put in an onyx stand up shower with a rainfall head and a seat. It's staying.