Sunday, December 9, 2007

Guest Bathroom 楼下的卫生间

This bathroom is quite small. But since it's at the entrance and at the first floor where the beautiful hardwood is at, we want it to be formal, shining and elegant. Due to its small window, this room doesn't have enough light during the daytime. So we also want it to be lightened up a little bit more.

The original white cabinet was kept but the old counter top was replaced by this beautiful "black galaxy" granite. We paid about extra $200 to custom make this L shape and the OG border, versus the regular round border (called bull's nose). The backsplash also has OG border. We also added a soap dispenser at the counter top. The white soap tray here is more for decorative purpose.

The mirror was also framed - but if I would do it again I would stain it instead of painting it in solid white.

As far as the flooring, we chose light cream color marble, and framed it with small green onyxe stones. The marble we bought were standard 12x12 inch. Since the frame is too small, we had the contractor to cut in to 6x6. The frame border and the diamond inserts in the center were from 3 1x1 onyxe sheets - this is a very economic way to make borders. A $18 sheet can be cut to at least 5 1-foot borders.

The wall color is "Green Tea" (BEHR) from Home Depot. When we just opened the paint can it looked too light. But after the paint is dry it's darker and is exactly what we wanted.

All the work was done by the contractor, except the design and the paint.

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