The bathroom seems to be coming together. At least we have a floor, walls, and a ceiling now. We’ve got a line on a vanity that we like – and we appear to have a solution to the issue of tile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remain astonished by how each and every part of this process ranges from “that’s optional,” up to tens of thousands of dollars – and still you’re doing it wrong. I think that the most frustrating and stressful aspect of this whole process is making snap decisions on expensive items without a feel for how they affect the process downstream. A close second is that the last<\/strong> things that you pick are the pieces you’ll touch every day. So here at the end, when I’m feeling most like the project is out of control budget-wise, I’m tempted to chintz out on the handles I’ll touch in the shower … the mirror I’ll look at every morning … and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tile is sort of amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We went to this one place and fell in love with a bunch of different pieces. All of them were at least two weeks away … with the custom mosaic including little marble birds being a full 10 weeks out. That also cost more than some small used cars. The tile in that place cost at least $8 per square foot, and went north from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After that we went across the street to Home Depot and verified that you really can get basic space-filling tile in standard sizes for closer to $2 per square foot. Cheaper if you look around. We’ll probably wind up filling the majority of the square footage at around that rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This afternoon we went to another tile place who proudly said that 90% of their showroom was available for delivery within 1 week. Score. Fell in love all over again, but this time for substantially less money and closer to our schedule. Found a couple of snappy accent tiles, and a really nice dark blue glass for trim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once again, it feels entirely possible that we’ll make our goal of having a functional shower by the second week of October. Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bathroom seems to be coming together. At least we have a floor, walls, and a ceiling now. We’ve got a line on a vanity that we like – and we appear to have a solution to the issue of tile. I remain astonished by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}