We are going to use the TLR model, which lies flat on the roof (no bubble!). We are going to have one in each bathroom and one in the interior hallway. They haven’t been installed yet but I’m kind of excited to see what it will be like.
Agree cobalt blue instead of aqua blue. It will be more long lasting color choice
Love all the other lighting choices, but they are contemporary style. Hope the bathrooms and vanities are similar style
I am just going to point out the foyer light. It is a very cool contemporary style. Consider carefully against the traditional wood stairway that will be in the same space
Bathroom vanities will both be shaker style cabinets, which work well with any style of light I think (hope). Countertops are unknown at this point, DW wants to do something like this, but it’s pretty expensive:
I will try to post pictures of the tile choices later. That was almost as bad as picking the lights. #:-S
We really didn’t find traditional style lights that grabbed us. The standard chandelier/candelabra type lights just don’t do it for us. It is a risk with such a contemporary light, but it’s going to be floating in a fairly large space, I feel like it will be more like an abstract work of art. Hopefully it works.
We did solatubes recently, had one initially and installed two more, we were amazed how much light it brings in, the only warning is not to do them in a bedroom, bathroom yes, bedroom no, as it can affect your sleep.
We’ve found that a lot of places have stopped carrying it, probably because you can’t really use it in a kitchen because it will melt if you put a hot pot on it.
The places we found it were quoting $1200-$1500 per vanity for the top, which is way more than I want to spend.
We use blackout shades and curtains, so, yeah, I don’t want the sun rising inside my bedroom every morning.
Oh I see. Will a hot curling iron melt it? Something to consider…I would have second thoughts about using it as vanity top for this reason but I would totally use it in the shower surround.
@greenwitch That stuff looks pretty cool, although I think the proportion of color to white looks a little off to me. Maybe I’m just used to seeing the other stuff, which has much smaller pieces of glass.
@BunsenBurner 48" vanity with a single sink, no backsplash, was quoted at around $1200 for just the top. I can find a decent vanity on Wayfair that includes a nice white top for $800 for both the vanity and top. Vanities aren’t a place I want to spend a ton on, but we’ll see if DW gets her way. If she lets me do the quartzite I want for the kitchen, I may have to let her get the fancy vanity counter.
The white tile for the guest bath has a raised texture on it that’s a bit hard to see. DW wanted to use that tile in the master as well, but I thought it was too contemporary for the other tiles. So we picked one for the master that has a light burlap-type texture on it. I don’t know, maybe I shouldn’t have switched it.
$1200 for just a material for a 48 inch vanity top no backsplash? That sounds high. We paid $2500 for a custom Cambria quartz 110 inch vanity top with dual sinks and backsplash, fully installed. We could have installed it ourselves… but… No way we would have carried that sucker upstairs ourselves! You should have seen the guys wrestling that sucker up the stairs. No seams, single piece.
Recycled glass countertops are expensive. I would consider it for a show piece area, but not in the bathrooms. I think it will fight with your lovely tile choices. There are some interesting quartz colors with very small bits in them that have little pieces that will highlight your bluish tile choice but it looks like white from afar
I have a lighting question.
I have under cabinet fluorescent lights in my kitchen, half of which don’t work. We had an electrician out for some other work and he gave us a price on switching to LED lights. The lights alone would be $700 plus the labor to install them. It seems extremely expensive for something not that exciting. Home Depot sells fluorescents to replace what we have. Fixture cost of the fluorescents is $180 plus labor to replace what we have. Give me the pros of spending the money on the LED lights. I have other lighting in my kitchen and don’t use the under cabinet lights much. Option 3 is to just leave it how it is with only half the lights working.
(Not recommending that site, just showing some examples)
The other option is to figure out why the current lights don’t work. If it’s just the bulbs, you can probably find LED bulbs that are drop-in replacements for the fluorescent bulbs. If they have ballasts it would be straightforward to re-wire the light to remove the ballast, or just try putting in the LED bulb, sometimes that works even when the ballast is bad.
Bottom line is I think you have a lot of options other than dropping $700 on fixtures.
