Monday

 

Our ideas are beginning to take shape for the primary bathroom renovation. We have yet to run them by our designer, but we've found it's better to give her something to react to than to meet without any ideas. I think we'd like to use decorative tile on the entire wall with the window. Our round tub will be centered under the window. The decorative tile will go from the soffit to the floor on that wall, and it will continue into the shower on just that wall. The shower will be frameless. Both half walls will be gone, the one between the tub and shower and vanity and shower. Therefore, the decorative tile will be more visible. We think we'll cover the shower wall (where the shower head, controls, and hand shower will be) with the floor tile. We'll see what the designer says about that. We may keep the decorative tile in the shower stall only (on both walls in the corner), but if we do both walls, it's about the same cost as doing the entire window wall. We wonder if it's okay for the decorative tile to run vertical while the floor tile runs perpendicular to it: up and down orientation meets back and forth, so to speak.

Here are our favorite decorative tiles. They are 2 inches by 12 inches and made in the same style as our kitchen backsplash tiles: iridescent with depth.

I think this is our favorite one, but I like them all.

Beautiful tile.

This one is the same color as our kitchen tile, just a different shape. I can see the white, round tub in front of each one.

This is a similar tile. It is not iridescent, just glass. It has a ridge going down the middle of each tile to give it some dimension. It's about half the price of the iridescent tiles. We ordered tile samples today. I'm hoping they arrive before we meet with our designer. We don't have an appointment yet.

I keep changing my mind about towel bars. This one is 18 inches long, big enough for one towel. If we got two of them, we could put one to the right of the vanity on the water closet wall and the other one to the left of the round tub, on the linen closet wall.

The reason I chose the 18 inch towel bar is that it matches this beautiful 10 inch hand towel bar that I really love.

I'd like to put one of these to the left of the left sink and one to the right of the right sink on the same wall as the mirror for our hand towels. They will be mounted beside the mirrors. 

We fixed corn and zucchini quesadillas. We had a side of leftover rice and beans, topped with cilantro and lime juice. We felt like we were at a tapas bar.

This was delicious and easy to make. We added a clove of garlic to the mix, and I squeezed 1/2 lime on the quesadillas before I folded them over. We substituted some chipotle salsa for the jalapeño pepper. John baked the vegetable mixture instead of sautéing. Touch on the recipe for it to load in its own window; then you can enlarge it for easy reading.