This is a standard track home upstairs bathroom. The customer wanted to get new cabinets but the bathroom required much more attention than cabinetry. The floor was so sloped that the door going into the toilet room (as seen in this picture) could not open all the way. This was caused by the use of cheap material and labor for preparing the floor for not so cheap marble flooring. This is a text book case of why it never pays to cut corners in remodeling. If it isn't done right the first time in the structural aspects, you will not protect the investment made in the desired finished product. Focusing merely on the end result, not the process as a whole, is what I call "Instant gratification."
End Results...
The layout we decided on was to separate the tub and shower. The bath tub was changed to a corner soaking tub and the shower to a steam bath. The steam bath could have been added to the tub/shower combo, but it is more practical as a separate unit. It is difficult to see in these pictures how much this bathroom was transformed but if you look in the mirrors of both before and after pictures you can get a much better idea.
The mirrors and panel cap on the wainscoting are steam bent to achieve the curve. I am not a fan of flexible molding. The tendency for cracking and non-tangent lines off the curves are very unsightly. I will use flexible molding where it is more practical, but in these two cases, especially the mirrors, I was not going to build them any other way.
The steam bath has 3 built in shelving units which keep bottles from being obtrusive to the occupant. It is extremely important that a Steam Bath be properly built. A steam bath should not be built like a normal shower, because your not waterproofing for standing water only, but for steam which does build up slight pressure within the steam bath when the steam bath is being used.
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