Step 19: Floors and Shower Tile

November 2018

Since it's a lake house, we went as waterproof as possible on the floors. We got vinyl plank flooring (LVP - I had to Google what the "L" was for. after the contractor kept saying the acronym all the time. Apparently "luxury" - hahaha). So again, there are like 4 gazillion options and after looking at all of them and picking out a few I liked, the flooring guy pointed to one and said, "Well, that's one of the ones we keep in stock all the time, so it'll be cheaper." Sold.

It's kind of neutral, a little on the darker side, but not crazy dark, called "Duxbury Oak." Here's the sample:


Originally, we picked something different for the bathrooms, still LVP, but one that looked more like tile instead of hardwood. But then we found out that it was thicker than the other one and would require thresholds in all the bathroom doorways. Since we're trying to keep the downstairs wheelchair friendly, just in case it ever gets to that with my parents, we scrapped the tile-looking one and just did the Duxbury Oak everywhere. I was skeptical of how it would look to have something that looked like hardwood in the bathrooms, but it actually looks really great. 

I don't have super-great pictures of the floor (yet), because when they laid it down there was a lot of sawdust all over it and then they covered it with paper immediately afterward so it wouldn't get damaged during the rest of the renovation, but it's still exciting to see. So just imagine the floor clean... I'll update it with a clean floor picture after it's all done:

Before:


After:


Feels kind of anti-climactic since there is so much dust on it. I wish I could have mopped it and taken a picture before they put the paper down. But you'll just have to stay tuned for an update. This is a picture of it while they were working on it in the upstairs master:


And here are some close-ups, still not clean, but you can see what it will look like better:



Come back later for some better shots!!


The flooring guys also did the shower tile, which again, you're not really going to be able to see that well (yet) because it's still got a thin layer of grout all over it. Again, I'll update with a picture when it's clean. We left the two upstairs bathrooms as-is for now (they were the only thing upstairs that was actually ever done), so we only had to get tile for one shower in the downstairs master. We picked a neutral light gray square tile with a little veining, nothing too crazy, and laid it in straight rows, not staggered. We didn't do any kind of special accent tile because we thought it might make the ceilings look even lower. 



Before:




And with the shower door, and I don't know how well you can see it, but there are some built-in shelves in the corner for shampoo ' n stuff: 


Again, I'll upload a better picture when it's all done and clean.


NEXT: Step 20: Lighting





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