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I had a few requests for pictures of the finished bathroom, so...drum-roll please...

I was only waiting to show it off to blogland-because I was waiting for the curtains I ordered- to arrive. They arrived, but are not in these photos because they were too sheer (very cute sheer white with little embroidered green poka-dots) Sky thought they were too sheer for this window, so we hung the new curtains I had just purchased for our bathroom (ala Target..) and they happen to go very nicely in here. Our bathroom has a frosted bottom window so we will put the sheer curtains in there.




We have marble tile on the shower walls, a small ledge on 2 sides to put things on, the marble is really lovely. Sky did this all himself, my dad helped him with the tile and plumbing. Sky took the room down to the studs. (Still waiting to go get a nice white terry-cloth shower curtain at Crate and Barrel, just haven't had time...)

And did you notice the whirlpool tub? We've never had such a luxury...it is not a real deep or wide one, because the kids still need to be able to step into it to shower. But, it is deeper and wider than the normal sized tub that was there.









Here is a view of the vaulted ceiling Sky created, and the interesting shower rod contraption we needed to order, because the shower has only two sides and a short pony-wall. The shower rod is connected at the front of the shower wall, on the left side wall and at 2 points on the ceiling.












You can kind of see the pony wall between the tub and toilet here on the bottom right. We had to decrease the space area around the toilet to fit in the wall...so we decided to not install a paper roll holder- it was a little tight there and someone might knock it off the wall or something, the paper roll is in a basket on the pony wall..we'll see how that works out. We also installed two double towel racks (needed for the 4 kids) and it was getting a little tight on that wall...

The blue/green color scheme idea I stole, uh borrowed from OC Mom's house. I'm going to stencil words to a song along the top..but we'll see when I actually get that done...








We wanted a one piece double vanity like we had before in this spot, but the price for two separate vanities was very convincing (big price difference). The granite tops were a nightmare...one was available when the vanities arrived, the other was ordered for us- so we thought, but was really put on raincheck for us. -it was then discontinued. The manager at the higher-class home improvement store finally tracked one down for us in another state and had it shipped to his store. It arrived the week before all our company was due to arrive. We also had a big headache ordering the tub from the same store. The second tub came in wrong again, but Sky decided to make it work and changed the stone design around it, rather than trying to order another one. The wood mirrors are from home depot- a good, easy, no-fuss purchase... I have to tell you that Sky forgot to calculate the backsplash for the granite here...and the mirrors would not fit, and the backsplash would not fit with the electrical outlets he had placed over both vanities. He had to rip out a good portion of this wall, after he had painted it and move the electrical-re-mud/sand and paint again. He's a good sport.

I really love the way it turned out, it's my favorite room in the house now...I'm going to start asking Sky when he's going to start on our bathroom...

You can click *here to see the before photos, or just click the little blue "home design" label at the bottom of this post to see a list of posts tracking the remodel...

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