The Beauty of Two Bathrooms

The beauty of two bathrooms is that you can keep one immaculately clean for guests and then not have to clean the master bath, that you use everyday, before you have company over. This leads to less stress in ones life and I highly recommend at least having one and a half baths.

When I realized I was going to have my own guest bath, besides being elated, I was eager to design it in a charming, soft manner that would be different from any other room in the house - it would be it's own little world. Both of the bathrooms in the house had preexisting claw-foot tubs that were made in 1914. So we had one refinished (traded the 2nd one for labor), got a new toilet, new marble tile floor, new paint & kept the preexisting pedestal sink with old-school brass fixtures. Check out the transformation:

Before:

(I know your shocked we didn't keep the wallpaper)

During:

After:

Rubbadubdub we've got a tub!

While our master bath has the beautiful white marble, walk-in shower that has a very modern look to it, we still wanted to keep integrity of the old shotgun house and reuse the old fashioned claw foot tubs that came with it. So we decided to make our guest bathroom over with a more classic style – we had one of the claw-foot tubs refinished (which took about a month) and it just came back home last night.

Here’s the before:

Here's the during: Here’s the now: And here's a close-up of the tub (he did a great job - it looks brand new):

And the winner is...

The winning tile for the guest bathroom is:Emperador Light Marble!

Thanks to all who voted.