http://www.foreverredwood.com/tapered-heavy-duty-planter-s.html
Those are gorgeous planters.
Interesting fence treatment. Wide spacing but then a backing to prevent privacy.
Or the square box style planter frame on the left side of the picture.
I’m going to change my floor vote. Since you are putting a grey wash upstairs…I vote for the grey you previously used. It will tie the two levels together nicely, and better goes with the overall scheme than the Browns.
I vote for whatever looks the most like the upstairs. I personally feel that cohesiveness upstairs and downstairs is highly desirable.
^^ ditto- you DONT want the downstairs to “feel” like an addition!
I agree: go with whatever gives you the most consistency.
Of course, you don’t have to use the grey wash upstairs, do you?
Actually, I think the grey wash will be nice with the overall look of the upstairs. It wouldn’t be my choice…I like the bare wood color myself.
I like bare/natural (light) wood color too. Though the gray wash seems like it goes with Southern California in a contemporary driftwood sort of way.
I agree with Madison.
Pheww, what a day. I wish every day was like this (except for cost). An amazing amount of work got done and you can actually see results! Unlike messing with old gas pipes for 2 days, we can actually see something got done.
Concrete all done - kaching! $3,650
Drywall al done - small amount of sanding still needed in stairwell - kaching $4,500
Tile work all complete and grouted in downstairs bath - kaching $1,300
Painting crew here going to town - kaching $500 to finish exterior
and then my regular crew dialed in a lot of stuff today
Nothing like a $10,000 day.
Here’s a breakdown on the concrete if anyone is interested
Concrete with fiberglass mesh and less expensive color, extra charge for less than a whole truckload = $708
Pumper guy with pump truck = $250
Retardant to get sand wash/top cast finish = $150
The rest of that money went to the TWO guys who came on Monday to measure, analyze, make suggestions and give me estimate. Then they worked all day yesterday doing forms. Then Three guys came today for the pour and finish. We are all in the wrong business… that was $2,500 for two days work!!
Downstairs Tile
I think that I have made one of the worst tile designs in the downstairs bath. I don’t know how I made the mistake. After the contrasting glass subway is all done… the color in the subway is bringing out a ‘mottle’ in the 12 x 24s that makes it look like cheap crappy ceramic tile (think 99 cents Home Depot). I just cannot stand it. And, to top it all off, the flooring is the wrong tone. The whole room looks like a vanilla boring mess. I have never done this before. I chalk it up to a) being rushed and not making a good decision and b) not having enough time (or access) to get down into the bathroom to check how it looks until it was way too late. If I had checked more carefully this morning (had way too many other things going on) I would have stopped him in his tracks and gone back to square one.
It is too late, I have to just let it go. But I am not proud, I am very sad at how it reflects on the rest of the house. Thank goodness it is the downstairs bathroom way in the back 
Hopefully buyers will have made their decision on whether they love the house by the time they made it into this bathroom
Now, back to the flooring decision.
I ran out to the wholesale flooring place again today. Also had to run all the way out to Lowe’s because it was the only place to make sure that I was going to get the right Sherwin Williams trim paint. Lowe’s has started carrying Sherwin Williams and their colors are gorgeous. BTW, I was wrong about the final choice. Color name is Stone Isle.
I’m sure that while I was running around madly… that was when the tile mess came into finality.
I definitely have a favorite laminate choice now. It looks perfect with the upstairs flooring and the tone is a very muted light brown with a European white washing kind of thing. The planks are really wide and I think they have a nice look.
HOWEVER…
On top of everything else, my agent is going to hire a bonafide Interior Designer (not a wannabe Interior Designer like me) who is going to stage the house for the sale. We had an appointment today for him to do a walkthrough. When he got downstairs he really insisted that a contemporary carpet would be the best flooring because of the high ceilings and an ‘echo’ effect, even though he loved the flooring choice. There’s always an echo effect in construction homes because there is no furniture or flooring. I was astounded. Then my agent said carpet would be a good choice also. What the hey??? I really quizzed her about this because my understanding is that many buyers do not want carpet.
In the end, she insisted that I should go for carpet (even though she loves the flooring choice) to save the cost and time to install the floors. I am OK with this because it will save at least 4 days of work laying all the floor. I can get carpet installed in one day - saves time on the schedule and it can wait until the very end.
I loaded two photos of the flooring and many more photos
Just out of curiosity… where do these planters go? Are you envisioning them for the parking patio?
P.S. $290 for a small planter is not going to happen I have some medium and large green planters that I found on sale for $19.99 that I am going to use in several places. You can see a couple of the medium ones below the kitchen countertop in one of the new photos.
I would much prefer real floors with some high quality area rugs to control the noise.
In a million dollar house, wall to wall carpet just seems like it is being cheap. I have a real bias against it.
Oh well, I guess the designer & realtor would know what their buyers are looking for. I do love the new wood samples you used in the photos and am glad so much was accomplished today! Sorry that the bathroom isn’t what you envisioned, but it’s impossible for EVERYTHING to be “just so.”
Honestly, I think the bathroom looks fine and I doubt the buyers will even notice that it doesn’t meet your standards. It really is attractive to me (much better than ours and we bought this house anyway).
The concrete looks very cool with the finish you chose–money well spent!
I agree with the decorator and realtor, but I’m also not a fan of wood floors in general. Carpet just makes a room cozier. Their point about the high ceilings and noise control is valid.
I like the wood with an area rug, too.
I think the bathroom looks fine – I’m wondering if the color tone will look different at various times of the day because you have some strong light coming in through that window.
I think if you get some color into the bathroom it will look fine. Maybe in the vanity? Colored sink/commode?