This post was sponsored by Kohler.
In any successful relationship, you have to go down a long winding road with many twists and turns, uncertainties of which path to take, and various ups and downs before you feel ready to settle down and live happily ever after. But when it’s right, you’ll know and you’ll fit together like two puzzle pieces. Or like two peas in a pod. If you read my first post about how to find your perfect bathroom match, you’ll understand this analogy (yes, that means go back here and read!).
So last time, I showed you the ugliest bathroom in the world. And pretty much, you all agreed that it really doesn’t get much worse. People have tried to show me pink flamingo wallpaper or avocado green tile…but no one has topped our black, mauve, and army green mosaic floor with the etched glass shower door. In case you need a refresher, here you go!
We had a lot of problems to solve in the original bathroom: it was dark, it was cramped, the proportions were off everywhere, and we were dealing with a black toilet. With the help of Lynn, our Kohler designer from Kohler Bathroom Design Services, we fixed every one of those problems. Lynn recommended that we write a list of what was and wasn’t working, so we knew what to address in our meeting. (As you can guess, there wasn’t much that WAS working, so it was a long list of grievances!) And now, friends, we are living in Shangrila! Every time I go to take a shower or brush my teeth, I feel like I’m in a fancy hotel (sans the tray of mini toiletries).
The convenience of the design video meetings meant that Michael and I could be in our respective offices – so it was really easy to meet. We could describe and collaborate easily about our bathroom design needs and then balance the solution and potentially the trade offs with our project budget.
When Lynn shared the photorealistic renderings, it was like being transported into a future version of our bathroom. It made our final choices so easy – we were able to tweak little things to really get a great sense of how it would feel IRL. Plus it made it really easy to communicate the final vision to our contractor.
Are you ready to take a look-see? Let’s take a little tour, shall we?
When designing a tiny bathroom with a sliver of a window, the last thing you do is build a dark shower chamber and line the walls and floor in black tile. We knocked out that closed-in shower (in the previous owner’s defense, he built a steam shower in the early aughts when the norm was to make a boxed-in shower room), and that immediately made the bathroom breathe. Even in this messy, construction zone, I could already see the change.
