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Originally Posted by Phobia
8 weeks? Heh. That's a good bathroom. When I first got into this business I actually did a little tiny bathroom with similar tile choices to yours except they chose really huge 3' x 1' panels. I vastly underbid the project and little old lady stood there watching me put up each and every tile. It wouldn't have been so bad but she didn't like color variations from tile to tile and she'd start telling me my tiles were crooked before I had even removed my hands from them. Brutal. She wasn't a candidate for natural tiles - she should have saved the $14 per sq ft and bought ceramic.
You did a heckuva job picking those tiles. Your taste leans exactly where my own does. I'm a big sucker for travertine and even moreso slate when people are on a budget.
Thanks. I love to work for clients like yourself because you know what you want and you're willing to spend the money to get it.
I overlight - it's so much better than the alternative. There's 20+ cans in that basement. I loved and I mean absolutely loved every choice in your bathroom - with the exception of the vanity lights. I don't want to make you feel badly about them, I'm just blunt like this. What was the rationale behind that choice?
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Thank again for the kind words.
The vanity lights were quickly replaced but I don't have current photos on my computer. We bought a couple sets of lights and I put them up and took pictures. Vanity lighting has been very, very difficult for us in the bathrooms. We must have bought 8 or 9 different styles when we remodeled the other bathrooms. We ended up putting in the same light fixture (it's really cool modern, flat strip) in 4 of the 5.
I've been using the same contractor now for my big jobs since 2004. He loves me, not only because I'm easy to work with and pay him weekly for completed work but because I go into projects with a full plan and know exactly what I want. He's told me horror stories of doing 100k bathrooms that the client ended up hating because the client refused to have any input.
I think the key to successful remodel is setting a budget, researching material costs, then doing everything possible to make yourself happy within that budget.
As well as a good, detailed, cooperative, reasonable contractor.
