I like the Hamilton vanity and the seagrass color, but I noticed that a couple of unhappy reviewers said their granite was very pink. All three finishes list “grey granite.” cb, have you ordered vanities with natural stone countertops online before? I don’t think I’d be comfortable doing so, as there is so much variation in stone.
The see glass is OK…it’s a green I sort of like. But still…it’s green.
But then again…if the color isn’t right, you could always repaint it…wouldn’t be the first time that happened !
I like the darker ones better.
I like some of the darker ones also, and the one that Marilyn put up. But I’m worried that a dark vanity on top of the dark woods will just blend into a dark blob in the small dark powder room. I did read the reviews that the vanity top was more pink in some cases. This means that they are using the cheapest granite (I think it’s called tiger’s eye in the business) that sometimes has a mauve tendency. That would be horrid!
The beauty of buying it through Home Depot, rather than Home Decorator’s website, is that I can just take it right back and say No Thanks 
If I had to try to return it to the manufacturer it would be a nightmare for such a heavy item.
Last night I started having a panic attack about adding the 3x4 wood beams to the bottom of the roof trusses. First, it is going to cause a lot of extra labor because we have to install all kinds of blocking around them for the drywall to get screwed up properly. Normally drywall gets screwed up to the bottom of the roof trusses. But if we put some beams on top of the trusses (we are installing a beam on every other truss) now we have to install a wood edge on each beam for the drywall screws. And, the drywall team is going to have a nightmare trying to cut around each beam. These cuts are not going to be pretty and it will involve a lot of caulking around every beam.
Plus, I’m suddenly worried about the structural integrity. Am I compromising the roof trusses by adding about 15 lbs of weight to the bottom of the truss? Total weight added to the entire bottom of the roof trusses is going to be about 100 lbs. I’m not sure they are built for that weight. They are built to withstand drywall weight and, of course, weight walking on the top of the roof and the concrete tile. But, are they built to withstand more weight added to the bottom of each truss?
Yikes, I had better be careful. Now it’s Saturday and I cannot really call the truss company or the engineer. I am going to have to call a lot of smart people and ask their opinion AND read through the truss calculations which are gobbly goop to me.
Re: that powder room. My opinion…if you go for a lighter color, don’t choose the green hue. There are people like me who just don’t like green. You can dress up this room with color in a different way when you stage.
I actually like the Hamilton vanity in grey. At least with the granite as shown.
Why not just skip the beams? Haven’t seen the space, but I’m sure it will look fine without them. Is that an expense that is going to add to the house, or could the $$ be spent elsewhere (hardware, island, landscaping) where it might make more difference?
I agree with @consolation. The beams in the ceiling are there in the LR…but I’m not sure you need to add them to the bedroom. I mean really…I would want that ceiling to feel as open as possible, and beams disrupt that feel for me.
cb, if it’s an engineering question and also just a “nice to have,” I wouldn’t bother to do the beams. You’re just making more work and aggravation for yourself.
OK, spent some time on the phone with the engineer and two of my experienced contractor friends. Adding the dry wood beams to the bottom truss is OK structurally. And, if we add them after drywall it will save a lot of labor. There’s just some things we need to be careful with. One of the things is that we have to make an accurate map of the exact center line of each truss so that we are sure that the lag screw goes into the center of each truss. These centerlines are hard to find after the drywall goes up so we have to put measurements down on paper before the drywall hides the trusses.
So, we will drywall the ceiling and then I will put up one of the beams to see if adds the architectural interest I want. I was going to shiplap the ceilings but the look just does not go with the style of the house. If it doesn’t add a big Wow factor to the ceiling, I can return the wood.
My estimated cost is $500 to add the ceiling detail. It’s about $300 for the wood and 1 day of labor.
The wow factor in the master bedroom is already the view out the windows so it’s not like it’s some plain box that needs enhancing; the eye is already being drawn out. And all summer long people can shower during the Sea World fireworks and watch the show while they shampoo.
If someone doesn’t like green, they’re not going to make it past the gates and front door so one bathroom vanity is not going to kill the deal. Actually, that Sea Glass color isn’t too far off from the color in the tile in the bathroom in the front bedroom. Home Depot does carry the Hamilton vanity (also matching mirror): http://www.homedepot.com/b/Bath/N-5yc1vZbzb3/Ntk-All/Ntt-sea%2Bglass%2Bhamilton?Ntx=mode+matchall&NCNI-5
If you like the style of the OVE Decors but the color is too dark, it can always be painted. Not like you haven’t done it before!
I agree with @Marilyn about the wow factor in the master. To be honest…I wouldn’t anything that would draw my eyes to the ceiling. Folks need to be looking out the windows.
I could easily get past the outside gate being green…lots of plantings outside are green too. But inside MY house…no.
I personally wouldn’t add the beams. They will make the ceilings seem lower (and they will actually BE lower under the beams), and as I recall, there were already some concerns about the ceiling height on that floor…
And it would be really strange to have beams lower in one part of the ceiling on that floor but not the whole ceiling. The beams would look like obvious fakes if they are only lower in part of the ceiling on that floor. I assume you would not be continuing the beams onto the ceiling over the deck since you are doing a different ceiling treatment there. It would be weird to have “beams” that don’t span the entire width of the ceiling, I think.
(I hope I’m understanding where you are intending to use them).
Finally, I was going to say that I don’t like the idea of fake structural elements added as decoration, but then I remembered that even Mies “form follows function” van der Rohe used non-structural I-beams as decoration in one of his buildings (maybe the Seagram’s building?) so there’s definitely a tradition of doing that!
Anyway, your judgment is fantastic, so if you do use them I’m sure you will prove me wrong!!! This is coming across more certain and forceful than I intend this post to be!
I will hold up some beams and take photos after we get the drywall up. It won’t be the first time I’ve abandoned a design idea after spending $200 on the lumber:)
My agent spent a lot of time looking at the vanities this morning and she personally likes the curvy lines of the Savoy. In fact she loves the vanity because it is raised high off floor for illusion of space and it doesn’t just look like a box
What color would you get for the Savoy?
I agree with the WOW being window views, not ceiling in master bedroom. I wouldn’t devote much more energy to adding more beams.
I personally prefer my master bedroom ceilings to be white, plain, and not distracting to keep the zen in. But that’s just me.
I like the Hamilton Sea Glass vanity - seems to go with the painted kitchen cabinets.
I also like the fake beams idea to match character of house/first floor beams.
Is the fireworks-view shower a two-person shower?!
The Sea World fireworks can be seen from the master bedroom (even lying in bed looking out over balcony and sitting area). They will definitely be very visible from the shower window. Yes, the shower is going to be two person. There is going to be a bar with a detachable hand-held shower head (with the big bench just below) and then a big rain shower head coming out of ceiling on other side of the shower. The only thing it will not have is two different temperature settings. There is a control for one or other or both, but not separate temperature settings.
ImGree about the ceilings in my bedroom. I want them to melt away…not be “statement” pieces. We even have a completely white ceiling fan…sort of disappears.
I like pictures of master bedrooms or master bathrooms that have chandeliers (if no fake beams).