Week 15 – The Master Bathroom Battle

Long before we had purchase any house plans we had been dreaming about a modern bath and had been looking at all the options available from online retailers.  Our last master bathroom was HUGE and was remodeled by an acclaimed designer and featured on HGTV’s I want that! Baths.  It was “contemporary” with separate sink areas with big, thick concrete counter tops, black sinks, and sleek chrome faucets.  When we finally purchased our house plan we noticed the bathroom was significantly smaller, but still sported a 10′ + wall for a nice dual sink area.  Scouring the internet again we fell in love with this set:

We knew we wanted in-wall sinks this time around because our sleek, chrome faucets at the last house were always covered in soap and product crud, and were almost impossible to keep clean.  But, of course, with in-wall faucets come in-wall rough-in of valves then you have to start looking at where your wall studs are placed etc.  We thought we had it all planned out above, measured everything out, and drew it out on construction paper for the subs.  The next day one of the in-wall faucets were installed.  While this process of trial and error is trying and it is an important process!  What we hadn’t really taken in account was the depth of the sink cabinets.  They were 17″ deep.  The typical depth is 21″.  The in-wall faucet had a HUGE spout, almost 11″ from the wall.

 

Not only that, but it didn’t face straight down but slightly outward so we figured we’d be taking showers in our sink unless we found something deeper.  We really liked these faucets, and started to hate the idea of narrow sinks with little area to place toiletries.  Since the contractors were waiting around for us to make up our minds we called our builders preferred vendor, Kitchen sales.  We diagrammed something simple that would give us the countertop, sink, and storage we needed and had deep enough sinks for the faucets we liked:

Kitchen sales came back with the Teagan line of Aristokraft cabinets that featured flat slab full overly doors.
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The counters would be Cambria quartz, which we LOVED, and the cabinets would look and perform great.  Plus we had a 24″ linen cabinet for towels, toiletries, etc.

ONE BIG PROBLEM….Where the middle of the right sink needs to be, and the in-wall faucet directly above it, there is a 4×4″ post supporting a beam that supports the roof!  Jeezzzzz

Plan B: I quickly voiced my concerns to Art Yarnell at Kitchen Sales, and being the professional that he is, quickly came up with a solution:

There will be TWO linen sinks 18″ wide each.  One of them will be to the right of the first sink, pushing it over past the 4×4″ post and allowing us to center the faucet, and the sconce above it, directly centered with the sink.  There would then be a second sink dividing the his and her cabinets.  The sink cabinets needed to be shortened to 54″ each but no big deal.  I quickly drew it out on the floor and everything fit PERFECTLY!  Yay!

Next week: Hopefully the skylights and metal roof install starts happening.  Regardless, the deck work is going to start.