Bathroom renovation series part 4 - Finish

The bathroom is not quite finished; the half-wall needs to be painted and have silicon caulking over the baseboard tile. The bathroom obviously needs um, what do you call it, the set which includes a toilet paper holder, toilet bowl brush, etc. We have a really nice one picked out that goes with our square (or "edgy") theme.

The lightswitch lights up - just, when they installed it, they had it light up when it was on. I wondered what possible benefit that could cause - once you've found it and turned it on, you don't need an illuminated switch. Geez. They switched it for me so that it glows when it's not on. The sink drain is still not installed correctly, you can't shut the drain.

Grey glass for the shower stall. We were really torn about what type of glass to get - clear or cloudy, but I didn't want either. The water here is fairly hard (it tests soft but it does leave a white ring where drops dried).We found grey and requested a sample and tested it by letting water drops dry (now you think we're crazy). We ordered it. The contractor said, "There is no grey glass" but he was mistaken and we are very pleased with it. It's so classy.

The lights were finally repaired to fit flush with the ceiling.

That tall thing is our radiator, made for hanging towels on. Warm towels, I love them so! Warm floor too, anytime I have cold feet, I just walk into the bathroom. The shower floor mosaic is actually the same tile as the other mosaic, it just looks pink due to the halogens being turned on for the photo.

For some reason the lights in the shower are halogens, different than the LEDs outside the shower. We rarely use them because they are very bright and I don't need to see that much detail when I look at my skin.

There is a convenient soap holder that drains.

Typical European water controller-thingy. These things are so awesome - turn the left side to control the amount of water, the right side turns to set a temperature. After living here a while you get to know the exact temperature you like. My man likes 38 and I like 42.

I love my window. The window has a little metal rack suctioned on that we keep our shampoos in.

It's pretty water tight, a few drops come out when I spray it to clean it after using the shower.

My niche. This was a huge problem. Orignally J's brother was going to make me a cabinet to keep things in. Then I panicked, thinking it won't match - I want it to match the tile. So we got the tile guy to come back and create this niche for me, using leftover tile. Guess what my little niche cost? Well, we did research and found out that they can run between 1-200$ in America. This one was 275Euros. And it was made from tile we already had leftover *and*, the hole itself was already there!  I couldn't believe how expensive it was. And honestly, I'm not really sure what to do with it. Definitely not keep TP in there, that looks ridiculous. Help? Also in this photo you can see the little towel hooked onto the sink. In Germany you have to have a designated guest towel, guests don't want to use yoru bath towels. Also in this photo you can see the two toilet flush settings.

I got a super-cool nightlight that comes on in the dark and changes colors. We set it to stay on blue though.

I had to show you, in closing, the outside of the house view of the bathroom, after we scraped and painted it. It doesn't look great, but it is a tremendous improvement from before.

Well, that's it. I'll try to remember to blog if and when this bathroom is every actually finished. For now, it's a real disappointment for us whenever someone visits and does not have to use the bathroom. *lol* But we do appreciate it!