tenny14's Ideas
i like the very thin top drawer in the center column
towel bar is not too deep in
nice vanity. sleek style
towel bar in front of plumbing
towel bar hanging in front of plumbing
shiny floor
shiny white cabinets (above-head, not below-waist ones).
shiny white above-head cabinets....like what we want for bathroom vanity!
tiles around tub and cabinet doors in the vanity (not just drawers)?
towel bars below sinks
contemporary hardwood with grayish finish
even this floor is ok b/c it doesn't have the swirls inside each piece. its graininess is in the form of long strokes, long straight lines, not small swirly, circular grains.
this one isn't fragmented with its small rectangles but still too busy with the swirliness of its grains. i don't like the swirly. when the flooring is too swirly, it becomes too much of a log cabin feel
but this one is long continueous streaks and strokes. i like this. so i'm realizing it's not so much the color that is speaking to me but more the continuity of the lines and pieces (not fragmentation).
i don't like small strips/rectangles like this. too busy in color and its small pieces. RA: i don't like it either.
this floor, again covered by rug, is dark enough for me. i like it. if we go dark, this would be good, i think. RA: i think cherry will work better.
i like this light colored wood (for floors) if it's striped like this and not circular and grainy like our current pergo. plus, it's darker than our pergo. but i think the reddish tint will look richer and will be different enough and fresh enough for us, a way to get away from the yellow pergo and dark espresso wood that we keep gravitating toward.
grayish. just too much of a beach, coastal feel though. would work great for those new england style homes. but not a familiar and right fit for us...at least for now. maybe for our laguna beach vacation home???? ;) RA: okay, I guess for now we are leaning towards cherry until we buy a beach house at laguna :)
clean lines and stripes like these are good too. they're not grainy like my parents' house and still sleek and modern, and still darker and shinier than the ones at our severo house. more brown than yellow. more caramel than mustard.
a medium brown floor like these are fine too. i just think we are putting too much emphasis on the floors. most of it gets covered up anyway. it's not the focal point.
see the color of the ceilings? and the stripes? i like those.
too dark. it's TRYING to look rich. too poser-ish. too wanna-be
most of it is covered up by the rug, but if you look to the left and right of the rug, you'll see the striped cherry-ish wood that i like
too dark
too dark
look at the floor here. it's not TOO dark, not espresso, but a dark cherry wood instead. i like this. RA: it's nice. I guess the choice now is between cherry and light gray.
if we can't raise the ceiling as much as we'd like, can we design it with boxes like the one here? or the striped beams i showed you in another photo where there was light coming in from between the beams? it's critical that we light up that room. asbed needs to help us with ideas and suggestions. do i need to bring someone to give us design ideas? RA: you are better than any designer. when we meet with asbed bring your laptop so you can show him these pictures. you need to save the pix on your hard drive. there is no internet at the new house.
nice fireplace frame. vertical lines.
love this. elegant and clean. and look at the floors! they're the light gray i was talking about! i think i'm over the dark wood. we never had dark wood for floors but we had them for everything else: our dining room table, our console table, our powder room vanity, our master bedroom furniture and wall decor. that's a lot of dark wood that we've already experienced. fyi. RA: okay let's go with this type of flooring. I will find out what it's called. This floor is called Multiformato Siena
cool room and very cool light. RA: do you like the floor?
pretty!
shelves on only one side of fireplace. i like that. asymmetrical and doesn't impose on the space where you first enter the living room
very cool. RA: indeed
accent wall
white cabinet with rectangular mirror. what do you think? RA: not bad
pretty!
what do you think of this? it's the fluorescent light-trimmed rectangular mirror and it's set against a darker textured wall that is similar to the copper textured tile i liked for the living room fireplace. RA: it's very nice.
see the cool long and narrow cubby hole alongside the tub? contrasts in color with the wall too. i like that. plus a little recessed light in the cubby hole would be very cool. RA: okay... you like cubby holes. let's ask asbed about them.
textured wall. we can do this as either the shower wall or as an accent wall on another one of the bathroom walls. RA: looks nice as the shower wall.. but which bathroom wall will you do this on?
steps leading up to the tub.
if a wall mounted cabinet is too expensive and too heavy (and may fall off the wall over time), we can consider something like that that has legs but the legs are further back or the back half of the cabinet is filled in all the way to the ground. that way, it looks like it's wall mounted and floating in mid-air but is still secured to the floor. i just don't want the legs (or filled-in back half) to be very visible. depends on the style and height/lengthy of the cabinet though. i think i'd still like it to be solely wall mounted but we can consider less visible legs or filling in the back IF NEED BE :) RA: okay we can check with hagop and asbed re: wall-mounted cabs.
do you like this wood? i like it. maybe too busy? but i like it. not for the bath floor but maybe for the living room and rest of the house? RA: I'm not sure how this wood will look in a large area (dining, living, hall, den). Do you think it'll look too busy? It looks good in the small area in the kitchen but I just don't know how it'll be in the entire house.
this one has the wall sconce, the rectangular mirror (but too small), the shelf in the cabinet for rolled up towels, but not mounted high enough --if at all. what's interesting here is that the trail of rocks that start from below the tub and run up alongside the wall of the shower have the same effect as an accent wall except instead of being on one flat wall, it's more fluid as it swirls up from the floor to the side of a wall. i don't like it but it has the same effect that i like, an accent somewhere in the bathroom that has some deisign, texture, and/or color.
gray stripe panel along one wall and over bench
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