Inspired Remodeling & Tile | Sullivan & Terre Haute, Indiana & Surrounding areas | Peter Bales, Bathroom Remodeling & Tile Shower Installation Contractor – Inglewood Cottage Bathroom- Before and After

The project that I’m calling my “Inglewood Cottage” project has wrapped up and I wanted to feature a few before and after photos. Most of my work on this project was focused on two different rooms, the kitchen and bathroom. Let’s look at the bathroom transformation first.

Professional photography (right) by Zach Goodyear.

This bathroom was nearly completely redone, however, most of the walls did not need to be gutted. However, I needed to remove quite a bit of the walls just to get that old cast iron tub out of there! The new surround was custom fit to go around the existing window that will let in natural light even though it will need to be covered with a curtain when showering.

When I started, there wasn’t much appealing about this room. It did have a huge cabinet behind the door which we left alone and painted. Otherwise, all the fixtures had to go as well as the deteriorating vinyl flooring.

By the time I was finished, the bathroom had a lot of my favorite details- wainscoting, pedestal sink and small floor tiles. The black and white tiles turned out great and really fit the period feel of this room. In a room with so much white trim, the black tiles add some interest and are a highlight of the bathroom.

This bathroom is quite different than when I started and that’s a very good thing! I really enjoyed being part of the changes in this small, but popular room of the house..

See all the related posts to this project at this link.

January 3, 2011 , 4:42 pm

Vanessa, I believe that my client bought those at Home Depot. I thought they were around $6 a square foot. The white hex tile was around 2", perhaps larger than most of the older ones you see in those turn-of-the-century bathrooms. It's easy to spend a lot on authentic-looking materials. You can save a little if you purchase ceramic rather than some of the marble ones. The nice thing about smaller bathrooms like this is that they don't require a lot of tile. The labor cost is the same no matter what you spend on the tile, so I recommend that you do something that you're going to like for a long, long time.

Vanessa

January 3, 2011 , 4:00 pm

My husband & I just bought a house built sometime between 1914 & 1920. We want to do a hexoganal tile floor, but found the small ones true to that period too expensive. What size/type of tile did you use in the Inglewood Cottage bath? Thanks for the help! v2w
Peter Bales

January 3, 2011 , 4:42 pm

Vanessa, I believe that my client bought those at Home Depot. I thought they were around $6 a square foot. The white hex tile was around 2", perhaps larger than most of the older ones you see in those turn-of-the-century bathrooms. It's easy to spend a lot on authentic-looking materials. You can save a little if you purchase ceramic rather than some of the marble ones. The nice thing about smaller bathrooms like this is that they don't require a lot of tile. The labor cost is the same no matter what you spend on the tile, so I recommend that you do something that you're going to like for a long, long time.

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Inglewood Cottage Bathroom- Before and After

Vanessa

January 3, 2011 , 4:00 pm

Peter Bales

January 3, 2011 , 4:42 pm

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