Master Bath

Do your toenails match your bath tile?

Well, if you are Suzy, they certainly do!

Suzy, the owner of a brand-new tile center in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida,

showed me that your toes can indeed match your bath tile:

Suzy’s shimmery toes!!!

Suzy is hard at work selecting the tile for the upcoming Maison de Vie,

the showhome opening this summer at WaterColor resort in the Florida Panhandle.

Her company is the lead sponsor of the home:

source

She gave me a sneak preview of some of the hard surfaces she will be using.

Here is the floor tile she has selected for the master bath:

flooring

It feels incredibly smooth and cool underfoot. Perfect for a beach home.

She will be using this one in the home as well. Loving the soft beach colors:

wall tile

Look at the same tile as above with dark gray grout, for a completely different look:

gray grout

Another display in the showroom:

Q-tile vignette

I fell in love with this gorgeous cross-cut marble piece:

crosscut marble

Here are some other beauties:

This one looks like a coastal sunrise. Subtle and shimmery. And, very glamorous:

shimmery

What about this subway tile with an opacity that sets it apart? Stunning.

opaque subway

Moorish Arch

moorish arch

And another Moorish arch in marble:

marble moorish arch

Here is a new product I saw in Suzy’s showroom, which is green-certified, and makes a great surface used as a bath or kitchen slab. Suzy told me that a local fabricator installed this product for her, called “Pure.” It is a glass product which looks like the whitest marble.

I have seen similar slabs called “Nano,” but was not familiar with the “Pure” brand. I will be keeping an eye on this as the next big thing, and I would love to use this in a bath installation. It really looks like pure white marble:

Pure slab

Suzy, thank you for allowing me to take photos of your beautiful new showroom!

Susie

Can’t wait to see the showhouse when I come to the beach this summer!

This is not a sponsored post, just thought you would enjoy seeing some of the latest trends in the high-end tile market.

March 21, 2013 | Categories: Decorating trends, granite marble travertine, green, Master Bath, Residential styling | Leave a comment

Sneak peek: Pardon our progress…

wallpaper gone

People, let me tell you, this is huge! The first step is always the hardest.

But, I am in motion. My wonderful wallpaper man is busy finishing stripping the existing paper as I type this.

Just look!

The rusty green wallpaper is au revoir!

Adios!

Goodbye!

I am so uplifted just walking in and looking at the bare SheetRock.

In all my color installations/demolitions, I have never seen a wallpaper absorb the light out of a room like

ol’ Rusty Green.

It is amazing, the difference.

Furthermore, my husband hates changing anything in our house. He loves everything to stay the same.

Bless his heart, he agreed to put up with the disruption entailed by this project.

So I will say again, this is huge!

Remember, this is just the bare SheetRock, not the new paint color. Obviously, still a work site!

making progress!

above, BEFORE (Ol’ Rusty Green)

I know you probably don’t want to see contractor bags, you come here to look at the pretty pictures.

This is real life, though. And, it will look nice in no time.

It is a very cloudy gray day, but you’d never know it by what is going on in my house today.

I can’t wait to get my crew over from Atlanta to work on the travertine. It must be cleaned, re-honed and re-grouted, then we’ll be ready for the new paint.

Can you notice that the pink undertone in the travertine is looking much less pink, now that Rusty Green is gone? Compare the before with the ‘during’: