Master Bath Remodel

Yesterday, our contractor presented the total of all the estimates for the job. I paid him $3,000 to get started and they were here bright and early this morning at 8:30AM. It is now 2 1/2 hours later, and the bathroom is pretty much gutted. I hope to salvage only one item from this project, which is to sell the cast iron, clawfoot bath tub. I put an ad in the local paper to sell it for $300 with the faucets. The ad will run for two weeks. If its unsold at the end of that, we'll haul it off to a scrap metal dealer and get what we can for it.

The new bath room will have a custom, cultured marble 4' x 5' shower, with an integral bench seat and a shower tower with 4 body jets, a fixed shower head and a shower on a hand-held hose, a built-in soap and shampoo niche, and frameless glass surround and door. Adjacent to the shower, where the old bath tub used to be, will be a new custom vanity with a single under-mounted sink. As you face the vanity, you will look into a mirror illuminated by a new fixture as well as 4 recessed waterproof can lights in the ceiling, which also illuminate the new shower area. The toilet placement will remain the same, but where the old double vanity used to be will be a new linen closet. All of this will be sitting on a new tiled floor, replacing the old wood flooring.

I'll post some progress pictures soon.