Friday, January 30

Bathroom Crisis

Last night, we noticed a major flaw with the bathroom tile -- well, actually two flaws. The photo shows where the chair rail meets the shower door. The left side is the outside of the shower and the right side is the inside of the shower.

The first problem is that there is no end piece on the the end of the chair rail. It just ends with a cut off piece. They just have to redo those pieces with rounded off end pieces.

The more major flaw is that the chair rail on the inside of the shower is about an inch and a quarter lower the the chair rail on the outside of the shower. That is a more difficult problem to manage. Shane wrote the contractor several e-mails about both situations last night. They called us early this morning and said they were on their way to discuss it. When they got here, they agreed that both problems were unacceptable. We were really pleased with their attitude about wanting to make sure we are happy with how this comes out.

The contractor's solution to the chair rail height problem is to add a decorative tile piece on the inside of the shower to make it the same height as the outside chair rail and adjust the tiles pieces above and below the chair rail. They are bringing some samples tomorrow morning to give us some options. I like the idea of having decorative black tile going around the shower stall, which would match the black accents on the vanity, but Shane is not sold on that idea. They are bringing samples of both white and black, and also glass decorative pieces for us to choose from. Cross your fingers that this comes out looking good.