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When I decided to get my bathrooms done, I was challenged with several Qs -  

• Can I change the design and add nore convenience without having to get major hit on budget ?
• How can I imagine how I wanted it to be before demolishing everything?
• what would be the vanity look like?
• What would be best for the floor - Ceramic tiles, marble, Vinyl designs (not a great advantage), or even porcelean? 
• Once I decide on the floor color, can I have the same color on the sides of bath tub? 
• Now, once the floor and the bath tub inside is decided, What is the best paint color that matches the floor?
• What about the vanbity? How can I match the vanity with the floow color?

I started with the vanity as thats the piece that everyone spends more time in front of a mirror and also I always wanted something thats adds style,

I bought a beautiful Mahogany sink vanity made from a bombe chest.  It Included a granite top and removable undermount porcelain bowl.  Holes were cut in the tan brown granite top (standard 8" spread) to add the faucets I liked. This added style to my bathrooms. I also bought the matching mirror set for this expensive vanity that added grandeur.

I now had to pick the floor type - Marble or tiles  or ceramic or precelean or vinyl floor. I picked very light pink ceramic floor as I liked the texture as this brought the mahogany vanity stand out. The tiles were on sale in Homedepot but  beware! - HD  is very rude to customers especially the one in cupertino. I had to drive around to San Jose, Menlo park and finally to Milpitas HD to find the  right ceramic that I had in mind and also the one that was on sale.

I will write the next challenges in the next blog