Master Bathroom Reveal
We are in the groove now folks, and half way through the reveals of our renovated 1938 Tudor in Nashville. When I first started designing our house, I obviously took to the greatest idea-platform that, at least, I know of: Pinterest. Oh glorious Pinterest, you are my greatest past-time and supporter of my crazy ideas. You inspire so much craft, creation, and design, and I don’t know how I organized all my ideas before you. But I’m going to end this soliloquy of love by saying that Pinterest can also be a bit of a “Pandora’s Box,” if you will. It can be VERY overwhelming seeing so many beautiful spaces with so many different styles. Also, you can sometimes step on your own creative toes by mimicking ideas from other people’s pins rather than pulling from your own inner creative bucket. Hey, no shame if you do—I do it sometimes too. When I’m in a creative rut or just need to organize ALL my chaotic ideas, Pinterest is waiting for me with open arms.
All this to say that when I was designing this house the pros and cons of using Pinterest weighed heavy in both areas. So I tried another approach and really tried to hone in on different kinds of European design styles, specifically design trends through England since the Tudor-style home originates from England. I wanted to find this balance in our home between these traditional English styles, and a modern and minimal style that Ryne and I love, considering this is OUR family home after all.
And in the end I felt that our master bathroom design fits this description perfectly. It’s also the one room in the house that I’m most proud of considering I did ALL the tile work for it, and it was only my second time tiling a bathroom. The space is only 65 square feet, so it’s not this huge, luxurious master bath that can fit duel sinks, a clawfoot tub, and walk-in shower. But kind of like our kitchen, I had to take advantage of ever square foot that I could storage-wise, while also not suffocating ever inch in the room to make it appear even smaller than it’s already tiny size. There is a balance to these contrasting ideas, which made this a great challenge, and I’m absolutely in love with the result.
So here we go again—the before and after pictures of our master bathroom:
AFTER
BEFORE
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What we accomplished:
The biggest thing, which you might not even notice, is we moved the back wall of the shower in 10 inches. This was to make space for our cabinets/countertop on the other side of our bathroom wall, so they would flow seamlessly to the wall of the pantry door.
As stated in my previous posts, we got all new plumbing and a new water heater, which has REALLY made a difference in our water pressure. And not just that, but now we can do laundry, wash the dishes, and take showers all at once.
We installed two new lights to the space: one that sits above the mirror and the other above the shower, which is also a light/fan combo. What’s really great about the light/fan combo is the fan is connected to a moisture sensor that will automatically kick on whenever it detects moisture in the bathroom. Fancy shmancy little thing.
We installed new crown, trim, and a 1 x 1/2” detail around the middle of the room. Then gave everything a couple nice coats of paint.
A new door with new hardware were both installed.
There’s all new plumbing fixtures: wall-mounted faucet, shower head, shower handle, toilet, and bucket sink with an exposed p-trap.
We installed the largest piece of glass I’ve ever bought and made a European-style walk-in shower (no door)
And lastly, all new tiled shower walls, and floor, installed by yours truly.
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What’s Left:
Not a damn thing. YESSSS! This is pretty much the one room in the house that I don’t really have anything left to do with it. Maybe add a small minimal art piece above the hooks on the wall? Maybe a couple more plant babies, but otherwise, she’s good, she’s functional, and she’s real pretty.
The one thing that I might look into for the future, (and this is a big might), is options to frost our window. If you don’t know what that means, it’s a way to create privacy through a window by making it a bit more blurry/foggy. I would love to leave our shade open all the time since our window gets such amazing natural light.
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What do you guys think? Could you live in this master bath? Do you feel I checked all the design boxes? Let me know in the comments below. And like all the reveals I’ve done so far, I’ve attached my mood board with the links to where I purchased everything from in case you see something you want for your bathroom flip.
I WANT THAT…
Wall-Mounted Faucet: Kohler (bought from Build.com but wouldn’t recommend)
Shower Head, Arm & Knob: Kohler (bought from Build.com but wouldn’t recommend)
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