Bow-front vanity cabinets proved to be too pricey ($3,500 or more each), so the homeowners bought two bow-front accent cabinets from a furniture chain for about $400 each, painted them light gray, and changed the hardware to chrome. Homeowner James Hickey discovered the large oval sinks at a discount store for $35 each and found a local marble installer who could fashion vanity tops from remnant pieces of carrara marble. The medicine cabinet was another discount-store find. Built to be flush mounted, it's recessed between the wall studs for a built-in appearance. Because the glass dividing wall precludes the usual vanity mirror, James installed a swing-arm mirror on the adjacent wall for grooming needs.
An Exercise in Symmetry
The walk-in shower accommodates two with a hand shower and a rainshower head (not seen here). Deep crown molding supports the barrel-vaulted ceiling.
An Exercise in Symmetry
Using inexpensive white ceramic subway tile for the walls and a white ceramic chair rail in the shower allowed the Hickeys to splurge on the carrara marble shower floor, laid in a basket-weave pattern. To accent the chair rail in the shower and toilet compartment, they cut down dark gray marble tiles and installed them in a slender line under the ceramic molding. The shower is roomy enough to accommodate a tall, slender table for bath supplies.
An Exercise in Symmetry, Floors
Honed carrara marble paves the floor throughout the bathroom, overlying a radiant-heat system that keeps the floors warm. To save money on marble baseboards, the Hickeys repurposed inexpensive 5-foot-long marble thresholds from a home improvement center and capped them with a moderately priced marble pencil molding. Because the thresholds were shiny, they contrasted too much with the honed floors, so the Hickeys sanded them down with a very fine-grit sandpaper to achieve a honed look.
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