C R A Z Y O R G E N I U S ?

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ok. you may think this is crazy but let's think about this. you have an amazing new bathroom...do you throw the cats litterbox in the room and distract from all the fabulous design with the gross look and smell of a litterbox? no. no you don't.
you cleverly think of a way you can hide the box. we actually stood around with Emily and Gerry, our architects, and discussed this at length...they drew it in plans, and we had meetings about it, and revised it. all i can say is thank god they're family!
with little space in this house to put this thing to begin with we had to ''think outside the litterbox'. since we have the other storage unit in the bathroom we can sacrifice the vanity space for the task of hiding the look and stink of the cats bathroom...and everyone gets a little privacy.
It was a big gamble...what if they don't use it? then we're stuck with a vanity with a hole in it and a litterbox sitting out. this kept me up at night. really! our cabinet guy kind of chuckled and i was embarrassed to tell our plumber...but you know...everyone thought it was a good idea!

and then....success! the cats love it...and what's not to love for 2 cats that adore jumping into any box or enclosed space. it's fun to poop!

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S H O W E R D E T A I L S

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i know i've shared some images of the shower are and tiles but i don't think i showed some of the nice shower fixtures we used.

 

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C U S T O M B A T H R O O M P I E C E S

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we had some great custom stuff made for the bathroom. the vanity and a storage unit were custom made based on our architects design and were made right here in gowanus brooklyn. this was done at KF cabinetry who also took care of the caesarstone tops and a shelf in the same material. overall everything came out amazing! now we just need a mirror and some knobs and the bathroom is done!!!

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B A T H R O O M C O M I N ' A L O N G

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it's been hard to really appreciate how amazing the bathroom is looking since our contractor had cardboard covering the floor and plywood covering the tub to protect everything while the work was going on.
we have some really killer tile installed and now that everyone's cleaned everything out of the room we can see how awesome it all really is including a great installation job.
on the floors we've got a woodgrain tile from italy which covers the floor and then travels up the wall...there will eventually (hopefully next week) be a custom vanity and floating shelf on that wall as well with a large mirror (very cool lighting will be featured in a post soon). the shower has a great matt finish subway tile in a modern stacked pattern. it's hard to show good bathroom pics since the room is missing alot right now...but let's enjoy the tile for now!

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A L M O S T

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our contractor has partially finished the tub tiles...then he ran out of tile. which is the result of people telling us they have things when they don't. i'm finding this quality to be badly infecting the two tile suppliers we're using. it' some kind of plague!
shower tile is coming from someone here in brooklyn who has barely been able to deliver on anything's he's promised (said he had bullnose tile for us then didn't, said he had edging material then only had half, said he had replacements for broken tiles then had to order them, said he had tons of field tile in his store then didn't ... delivered the last box after our contractor left).
bathroom floor tile coming from manhattan (said she had floor tile in their warehouse in miami 3 weeks ago then told me yesterday they're on a boat from italy which broke down at sea). hmmmmmm.
anyway...so far so good.

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T H O U G H T S O N P L U M B I N G

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since our kitchen is pretty much planned...just waiting for materials...we can now really put some thought into the bathroom that's being renovated alongside the kitchen. it's a good sized room that isn't going to change as far as placement of things...the most affordable configuration is what's there now...with new beautiful fixtures of course! let's keep it simple people!

on a recent trip to my in-law's house in las vegas (my biggest fans!) i was inspired by their guest bathroom and detachable hand-shower head that simply takes the place of a regular shower head. no fancy body jets or shooting steam...just a good idea tastefully done. so i'm going to give it a go and hope our opinionated plumber doesn't shoot me down.

here's a look at some of the faucets and fixtures i'm thinking of.

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