lol BB!
Perfect…and it even has pink tiles!
Are those all el-cheapo hollow core doors?
That door is hilarious!!! Obviously it doesn’t even matter whether it is an elongated toilet or not, that door should be swinging out. Can you imagine having to open that door and shimmy yourself/ rub along the side of a toilet to the right back wall in order to get inside and close door? Or maybe you have to step on top of the toilet and then close door and then jump down off it?
And then you get the door closed and there’s a big gaping hole in the door right at your business.
At that point you might as well take the door off and throw it at whatever person installed the stupid ‘solution’
That picture is a hoot!
Our bathroom with the elongated toilet swings IN. Suspect it’s because the door is immediately adjacent to the door leading to the basement, which does swing out, and the two would collide. Even with a regular toilet, though, I don’t think there’s enough clearance for the door to swing in. It’s a tiny half bath with a sink (no room for a vanity) and 30" square shower stall.
When we get around to renovating our MBA, I am going to have them replace all the hollow core doors upstairs.
PROGRESS UPDATE
I have loaded some more photos of our progress over the last couple of days.
We are running fast trying to pick tile for the laundry/hallway/laundry bath area, master bath and hall bath. I loaded the selection for the hall bath. I looked very closely at the hall bath plasticky countertop and it has gold lame sparkly veins in it. How the heck are you supposed to match/compliment that with any tile? Cannot be done.
Grandma owner wants me to try to find floor tile that ‘highlights’ the blue veins in the master bath countertop. Unfortunately it is a combination of a yellowish ivory background and a tone of blue that is not popular currently. I have been to 6 tile stores and cannot find anything that works with the bathroom. The key is we have to find tile that we can get in on site within 3 days because the tile guy is coming on the 21st to start laying all the floors. That rules out anything on the Internet, has to be found locally
Kitchen has two separate teams working feverishly to get ready for cabinet installation. The cabinet installation is scheduled for Sept 29, so that means that all the plumbing and electrical needs to get finished on the 21st so that we can start installing drywall, mud, taping, sanding and painting. Drywall install/finish takes at least 4 days because of drying time between coats.
We have cut the huge trench across the floor in order to have sink plumbing (and island style venting) and electrical conduit for trash compactor, outlet, dishwasher and garbage disposal. Creating an island out in the middle of a concrete slab floor is not an easy task. It is especially hard to design proper venting for the kitchen sink. Not to mention we have to connect this all up to really old cast iron drain line under the slab. Inspection of the cast iron shows that it is clogged and scaling… but we have no choice… cannot dig up the whole house and replace the main sewer lines. There is a muddy wet dirt mess all over the kitchen right now.
We ended up having to tear off all the old plaster walls in kitchen. At first I was insisting that we only had to take off a portion of the walls. My lead kept telling me… Eventually you are going to just have to tear this all off so we can run plumbing and electrical. In walks my Electrician and he tells me that the plaster has to come off because it is an exterior wall and he cannot rewire the whole kitchen without gutting to the studs. Dang! And, all day Thursday I got to listen to “I Told You So” from my lead 
Would any of these tiles at Lowe’s work, maybe as an accent with off-white or ivory field tiles? I picked a few different stores in your general area (I think) to check for stock.
Here’s a “bronze” tile from Lowe’s: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Bedrosians-Bronze-Filled-Honed-Travertine-Floor-and-Wall-Tile-Common-12-in-x-24-in-Actual-12-in-x-24-in/4748531
This beige tile has yellow/golden tones: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Project-Source-Tiolo-Beige-Ceramic-Floor-Tile-Common-16-in-x-16-in-Actual-15-9-in-x-15-9-in/3445342
More neutral but might work: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Style-Selections-Beltade-Marfil-Cream-Porcelain-Floor-and-Wall-Tile-Common-18-in-x-18-in-Actual-17-75-in-x-17-75-in/1000195041
Good luck!
Thank you @Silpat for your wonderful research
We tried a bunch of the beige/brown/creamy ones, including several that you have listed, and they didn’t look good in there. I pretty much bought a sample of everything in Lowes
I love the blue ones, they would work perfect… However, they are glazed wall tiles. I cannot put them on the floor because they are slippery.
I’m off to Arizona Tile (local supplier) to see if they have anything that will work
cb, when you can make your own design choices, you are a much happier person.
It’s obvious you much prefer flipping and doing what you want to trying to fulfill someone else’s vision.
Yes, I do prefer to make quick decisions with my own design taste.
I did have fun with the last remodel because I understood the young couple’s design target. She gave me a lot of Pinterest posts and pictures. As long as I know what the target styles are, I can at least shop and pick colorings that are appropriate.
This project is extremely difficult because I don’t have a picture of what they want at all. And they want to keep everything possible. All I have is a photo of their 1990 kitchen but now we are exactly opposite with the dark grey cabinets. And their old furniture is moving in. I don’t exactly know the furniture but I think the tables and chairs are honey oak or something. I just give up at this point.
I can sort of understand where they are coming from…sort of. We have some nice pieces of old oak furniture. I have had them since I graduated from college. I would be very disappointed if the design of any future house of mine didn’t accommodate them.
Now…having said that…I do NOT intend to fill three pods, and 2 1/2 rooms full,of old “stuff” just for the sake of having it. I will purge big time before we move…have started already.
The grandmother wants their new house to be a “new” version of their old house…from what I can tell. She doesn’t want different or updated…just…new. And not all of it. If you can wrap,your head around that…it will be easier. You might not like it…but that’s what she wants.
If she wanted updated…she would be ripping out that pink bathroom tile.
Hope you find something suitable at Arizona Tile. If not, maybe one of the blue tiles could be used as a narrow perimeter border with neutral field tiles so they wouldn’t present a slip hazard (assuming they’re the same thickness as the other tiles.)
It’s too bad the owners won’t agree to new vanities, or at least new vanity tops.
I know you already had to find tiles in person but these might have worked: https://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/SomerTile-12x12-inch-Paradise-Beach-Blue-Porcelain-Mosaic-Floor-and-Wall-Tile-Case-of-10/8670260/product.html?refccid=ERQ6WTIEFBWK3ECFIBIUNLXDIU&searchidx=39&keywords=&refinement=color:Blue|
Yesterday I averted another bad decision. I have had samples of flooring at the project for several weeks. They decided they want engineered wood floors because they are warmer to walk on. Their old home had travertine floors.
Unfortunately the samples are small cuts. Based on pricing and availability, the lady selected a floor. My flooring guy has to place the order and then I go into the Wholesale place to pay for it. As i was in there at 4pm yesterday I spotted a large floor sample of the selected flooring. OMG…it was horrid!!! Looked like busy tiger stripes all over the floor. Then I saw the 2nd choice and it has black streaks through it…very ‘country barn’ style.
I put the order on hold and rummaged through all styles and shapes to find medium tone flooring with a matte finish. They don’t want dark or shiny, for cleaning reasons.
I took a million pictures, scrambled home to search for examples on Internet and sent them all out for review. Luckily they liked my suggestion and a $8,000 disaster was saved.
These people appear to have either terrible decorating taste…or decorating taste that is totally opposite of yours.
Or both.
Their taste has been the same for 40 years. I don’t think it has evolved since the 80s or 90s. So, very opposite to my taste.
But the main thing is that they don’t sell what they want anywhere. The gentleman is all upset because he wants skinny plank floors. I’m sure they can be found somewhere, but I have no idea where. Everything being sold by manufacturers is currently wider plank styling. I just don’t know how much I’m going to kill myself searching for the 90s style choices.
We have a place called something like Restyle here which is basically everything everyone is pulling out when they flip houses —THAT is where you need to shop!
Good idea.
We are still stuck on finding master bath tile. The samples I brought from Arizona Tile are not appealing to the owners. I found two interesting cement style pattern tiles that have the blue in them but that was too far ‘out there’ for the owners and it really didn’t fit the style of the house or bathroom. I’m not even sure what style those bathrooms are? I’ll call it Grandma style.
The key issue is most tiles sold now either have grey tones or the brown/tan tones. Hard to find tile that goes well with the colors in the room, especially because they don’t want a cream or plain light color. Back to the drawing board.
Oh boy. It sounds like they would be happy with something that is identical to what was there before, just newer?
Would they go retro?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00JEHAJII/
Would fake wood be too much for them?