Day One: New Master Shower

After taking one look at our master shower, our contractor winced and gently suggested that new tile in the shower would make it a much nicer bathroom. I guess I never paid much attention before that day, but he is right. It is fug. And the shower door is just waiting to cut us.

Here is the shower before:





...and after day one:






This one is looking at the ceiling, which was taken out to install a vent.


We are going to do either carrara or white porcelain subway tiles on the shower walls with black and white hexagonal tiles on the floor. And a light, barely there mint green paint (at left) on the bathroom walls:



So much progress in one day! Very exciting.

Day One Continued: C's New Master Bedroom & Closet

First, a brief history. Last week, when JM and I visited the house to check out our landscaper's first swipe at the mad, out of control vegetation (which I will discuss in a separate post), we met our new next-door neighbors. They informed us that the owner that added on to the original structure of our house was a set designer for the Alley Theater. This new info helped explain the two most confusing elements of our new home: (1) the mysterious front windows and (2) the HUGE "den" with at least 15 outlets (in the floor and on the walls).

(1) The windows on the far right side of the house are fake. On the other side of those are the two bathrooms, neither of which has a window. There are even little fake blinds in there. Weird, right?



(2) The huge den must have served as a studio:





But we have no use for a studio, so we are converting this space into a master bedroom with a walk-in closet. Also tearing out the 90210-era track lighting and the faux skylight. Surprisingly, that thing is uglier in person. I'm not buying that a skylight would be placed sideways in the middle of a ceiling anyway...


So, after day one, here is a view of the new master, looking out from that back wall pictured above:



The left door leads into the new closet and the one on the right leads from the bedroom out into the hallway. The previous picture was taken while standing in that grey door in the left of the picture immediately above.


PS, we are thinking either the blue on the far left or the one in the middle. But who knows what those colors really look like - this room was completely dark and lit only by my camera's flash. All of the grey trim will be painted white. My color inspiration is, randomly, Julianne Moore's living room:





Bye bye, track lighting: