Huntersoninski posted:

They make soft felted wool bath mats that look a whole lot like rocks. I feel like that's an easier to maintain and nicer to experience option.



Ideal for people with a bunch of money to spend on something mostly pointless outside of looks.

value-brand cereal posted:

Would you happen to have a link? That looks so cool!

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Divide by three baths a year... let's say you live for another fifty years (you'll need to give up the DIY electrical work to hit that target) and you live in this house until they cart you away.

Each bath you take will cost you 460 dollars. You could buy one of these and throw it away every time you feel like having a bath and still have enough left over for the Lush Star-Studded Bathing Gift Set and a moderately-priced bottle of champagne.

bEatmstrJ posted:

Lets not forget that I'm remodeling the WHOLE bathroom, not just a bathtub. Since were being fair, don't forget to divide the cost over every shower I take as well (which is every day, before you go assuming I'm a filthy basement dweller). I'm not particularly fond of baths that don't involve random girls, but it is intended to be a, albeit expensive, focal point of the bathroom.

bEatmstrJ posted:

Lets not forget that I'm remodeling the WHOLE bathroom, not just a bathtub. Since were being fair, don't forget to divide the cost over every shower I take as well (which is every day, before you go assuming I'm a filthy basement dweller). I'm not particularly fond of baths that don't involve random girls, but it is intended to be a, albeit expensive, focal point of the bathroom.

mormonpartyboat posted:

if its mostly just for show, consider filling the tub with mercury

bEatmstrJ posted:

Im fairly certain uncompromised floor joists could not handle the awesomeness of a tub full of mercury.

Look Sir Droids posted:

You didn't compromise the structural integrity of your house for a new shower and new counters though. And neither of those things are the most expensive addition.

sneakyfrog posted:

fortunately they are ALREADY compromised

Plan mercury is go!

bEatmstrJ posted:

Im fairly certain uncompromised floor joists could not handle the awesomeness of a tub full of mercury.

DirtRoadJunglist posted:

Oooh, will this thread now cross over with the FOOF thread, too?

bEatmstrJ posted:

Im fairly certain uncompromised floor joists could not handle the awesomeness of a tub full of mercury.

dest posted:

One of two things will happen when OP goes to sell this house. The buyers will either request that OP returns the tub to a non-rock standard configuration prior to closing, or they will build the negative cost of having to reno the tub in via a lower offer, than what he would be getting with a standard bathroom.

I'm selling my house right now, in one of the hottest markets in the country, had 6 simultaneous offers, all well over asking, and the buyers STILL ask for dumb stuff, that I have rightfully turned down. Your market better be smoking OP, if you think you are going to get away with not taking a substantial hit for that bathroom abomination. What you think is cool as a rando single guy tech sales engineer, isn't going to fly with 99.99% of married home shoppers.

The cost to fix this mess, plus the negative equity you are saddling the house with, is insane.

But on the other hand, cool river rocks! Looks super modern and cool. Keep up the good work!

Phimose Knight posted:

If you think your joists are uncompromised then you're out of your element.

bEatmstrJ posted:

Perhaps I needed an emphasis on "uncompromised". As in, i'm fairly certain if I HAD UNcompromised joists, they STILL could not handle a tub full of loving heavy as poo poo mercury.

Apparently inflection is lost in posting.

bEatmstrJ posted:

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Hey as fun as it is to make fun of you, and boy is it ever, can we at least try to talk you out of this? You're not adding value to your home - your bathroom design is poorly-executed and extremely trendy. Super trendy room designs can be okay...

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Hey as fun as it is to make fun of you, and boy is it ever, can we at least try to talk you out of this? You're not adding value to your home - your bathroom design is poorly-executed and extremely trendy. Super trendy room designs can be okay if they're well laid out and use high-quality fixtures, because everything comes back in fashion eventually. I moon over 30's kitchens that would have made any 50's homebuyer reach for the sledgehammer. But you're doing a particularly flash-in-the-pan micro-trend, and it's done badly, with unfashionable colors and an awkward layout, even if we ignore the mold issue and the floor joists.

So you aren't adding value to your home, which is fine, I'm a big believer in treating houses like homes, not investments. Only, you aren't going to use this tub. So you're getting nothing, damaging your home for nothing, lowering your resale value for nothing.

Why?

bEatmstrJ posted:

I don't expect to get all of my money back for this, but I would almost guarantee it won't get changed when I sell.

bEatmstrJ posted:

There's a good chance I would have not compromised my floor joists knowing what I know now. But the damage has been done and the cost to fix it is essentially the same as it is to continue with my original plan. I may not use my tub much, but I also don't remodel things as a bachelor. My closet was designed with a woman in mind, despite not being married. Likewise, my bathroom is designed with a woman in mind. It will have a powder room that will be completely useless to me, but is the kind of thing a woman would look at and say, OMG I want this. In the same vein, if a woman sees a nice inviting looking bathtub they are going to swoon. And since woman play an unfair role in the home-buying process, a woman who falls in love with my bathroom is going to help me sell my home (someday). You may not like the design, but I assure the finished product will exceed your expectations.

Look Sir Droids posted:

You don't know many women, do you?

bEatmstrJ posted:

There's a good chance I would have not compromised my floor joists knowing what I know now. But the damage has been done and the cost to fix it is essentially the same as it is to continue with my original plan. I may not use my tub much, but I also don't remodel things as a bachelor. My closet was designed with a woman in mind, despite not being married. Likewise, my bathroom is designed with a woman in mind. It will have a powder room that will be completely useless to me, but is the kind of thing a woman would look at and say, OMG I want this. In the same vein, if a woman sees a nice inviting looking bathtub they are going to swoon. And since woman play an unfair role in the home-buying process, a woman who falls in love with my bathroom is going to help me sell my home (someday). You may not like the design, but I assure the finished product will exceed your expectations.

Look Sir Droids posted:

You don't know many women, do you?

brugroffil posted:

I'm not sure how much a woman will enjoy an oppressively masculine dark black-and-red bathroom with minimal natural lighting tbh. That bathroom is going to be very dark. I know I'd take a pass or come in with a lower offer than I'd make on the "builder's grade" bathroom.

bEatmstrJ posted:

I guess I should also note that the design has changed a bit from the original; The red wall is going away. But yes, it will be somewhat dark. But that will be offset a bit by a lot of lighting.

bEatmstrJ posted:

Enough to know which parts of the bathroom they like.

bEatmstrJ posted:

There's a good chance I would have not compromised my floor joists knowing what I know now. But the damage has been done and the cost to fix it is essentially the same as it is to continue with my original plan. I may not use my tub much, but I also don't remodel things as a bachelor. My closet was designed with a woman in mind, despite not being married. Likewise, my bathroom is designed with a woman in mind. It will have a powder room that will be completely useless to me, but is the kind of thing a woman would look at and say, OMG I want this. In the same vein, if a woman sees a nice inviting looking bathtub they are going to swoon. And since woman play an unfair role in the home-buying process, a woman who falls in love with my bathroom is going to help me sell my home (someday). You may not like the design, but I assure the finished product will exceed your expectations.

bEatmstrJ posted:

And since woman play an unfair role in the home-buying process, a woman who falls in love with my bathroom is going to help me sell my home (someday). You may not like the design, but I assure the finished product will exceed your expectations.

FogHelmut posted:

It's the toilet, right?

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

I'm a woman and while I don't speak for all women, nothing about that bathroom suits the way I'd want to use the space even ignoring the aesthetic side of things.

I like as much natural light as possible for putting on my makeup, and just waking myself up in the morning, and you boarded up a window. The dark gray stone and red paint are also going to soak up all the artificial light and make the bathroom dank and cave-like, so hard to see what I'm doing.

The tub is awkwardly-placed and has nowhere but that tiny notch in the wall to store soaps, oils, grooming tools, or the book, wine, and music player I'd need to have a properly girly soak.

The shower is cavernous, and thus would be freezing unless you had both showerheads going, there's again nowhere to store anything, and like a lot of women I prefer a removable showerhead so I can clean my body without getting my hair wet, because drying and setting it is a pain in the rear end I like to save for shampoo days. You've got a sort of bench thing I think that might be workable for shaving your legs on, but it forces you to stand in the path of the shower, meaning your shaving soap is going to constantly rinse off while you're working, not to mention your hair's getting wet again.

The sinks, again, no storage space, no clear flat workspace for laying out hot tools, makeup, and cosmetics. If that low part in between is meant to be the vanity, it's cramped and has no mirror, no lighting, and only one electrical socket, which is frequently not enough when I've got a blow-dryer going, a flat iron heating up, and I want to charge my phone.

I don't see anywhere to store towels or robes either.

Some girls are definitely a lot more wash-and-go than I am, but the fact that you're thinking of wooing a woman with a luxury bathroom makeover in the first place means you probably go for a traditional type of girl. Traditional girls tend to need bathroom storage and a place to plug in their hot rollers.