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my bathroom remodel reveal. Posted by victoria //// 40 Comments  bathroom remodel with Kohler. / sfgirlbybay" width="530" height="795" /> at long last, i’m finally able to say the bathroom remodel is complete, and ready to share with you. i couldn’t be more excited about how it turned out, and honestly, i may be spending much more time than necessary primping and just luxuriating in here. so, to proceed — you may remember i partnered with Kohler for a makeover and shared the before a while back — the bathroom was tiny and narrow and now, well it’s silly-big, and i love it. i really encourage you to look at the before to appreciate the change! i was going for a relaxed, kind of coqui coqui vibe but with a bit of sophistication, so i started with the finish of my faucets: Kohler’s Artifacts faucet collection  — which are a beautiful oil rubbed bronze with a rich black sheen to them. the finish of this dark Artifact collection was the perfect starting p...

How to Organize a Bath Safety Remodel Jul 01, 2009 Bath safety is a key element of home access. Simply put, patients of all sorts need to use the bathroom throughout the day. But for bariatric, geriatric and mobility patients, bathing can pose both frustration and safety hazards . For instance, stepping into a shower stall or tub poses the risk of falls for geriatric and bariatric patients , and for mobility patients, bathing comes with even more complications due to their mobility limitations. And if bathing complications result in reduced frequency of bathing, this can mean that a patient risks hygiene issues that can cause sores and infections. This is especially a concern with bariatric patients , who are sometimes left with sponge baths as their only real bathing options . Fortunately, HME providers are in a position to help. There is a multiplicity of bath safety offerings available to help them ensure patients of all stripes are able to bathe safely. The key is to get started...

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Where to buy affordable bathroom tile and ideas of how to implement them in your bathroom remodel .  Updated to add: our shower is finally finished!  See our tiles all together in our walk in shower here I didn’t realize how hard it was going to be to pick out bathroom tiles for our shower until I actually started trying to purchase them.  I got so quickly overwhelmed!  Just in case this can be helpful to any of you, I thought I’d share what we decided on for a relatively affordable tile design : this post contains affiliate links for your convenience Bathroom tile ideas: Subway tile: EDITED TO ADD: We still love our old subway tile, but we saved time with this renovation and did smaller subway tiles we found that were sold in sheets – we LOVE THEM.  You can find them here. We love our subway tile in our kitchen and our half bathroom, and will be using the same one in 3 of the 4 bathroom shower walls .  We got ours from Home Depot, and they’re super inexpensive.  As in, the grout wi...

After Before The Original Floorplan Last June, Jeremy and I started the process of remodeling the second floor of our home. There were lots of things that bothered me about the original layout, and you can probably discern a lot of them from the “before” pictures, more of which you can see in West Elm’s post here. Originally, the second floor had a master bedroom , tiny master bathroom , and a weird tiny bedroom that could only fit a twin size bed and had a weird area where the eaves of the roof slanted down to the ground making it almost impossible to keep anything there. The master bathroom consisted of a small crappy plastic tube -shaped shower, a vanity, and the toilet. The shower was the bane of my existence, because the way it was built and assembled left all these little gaps in the plastic pieces  in it that were impossible to get to with cleaning brush, so mold would just grow between the cracks, and the rubber lining along the shower door where the plastic sheets touched k...