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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html
Showing posts with label Damixa. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Bathroom Renovation Completed by Bassett Home Improvement

Oh the joy when all the dust and noise is over with and you finally can clean your new bathroom!
Loved working with the men from Bassett Home Improvement but it was great to see them depart...
So happy for having it shiny and clean on Wednesday, before Thanksgiving.
A shiny new bathroom... matching our treasured white lacquered Italian vanity cabinet!
Our shower is wider than previous.
We did have to wait 1.5 week on the custom ordered shower door from Dublin Glass and Window Co.
The MAIN reason we redid our bathroom was because of the sliding door from 6 years ago getting STUCK!
 YES, WE GOT TRAPPED INSIDE.
Lowe's is NO LONGER selling this DreamLine Mirage Frameless Sliding Shower Door!
Guess we both were not the only ones that got stuck...
Below post you find link from our previous bathroom renovation.
Direct wire got installed for this shaving/makeup mirror with LED light.
Love the glossy paint on the walls, after they'd removed the wall paper.
We also opted for this very special American Standard 2034.014.020 Champion-4 Right Height One-Piece Elongated Toilet, White (Amazon).
Our contractor said it was the easiest toilet he ever installed!

It is also supposed to have a special 'EverClean surface' and we hope that it will not get water stained under the rim like our previous Toto did.
Our water quality is such as with rust stains... We use a water filter system but still.
Hate things that are not clean-clean.
Our Hotel Cabinet with Cubbies moved now to this side of the bathroom.
We of course kept our Danish Damixa faucet and shower head.
Next to window, with a glimpse of our white lacquered Italian vanity cabinet.
Grab bar got installed this Monday morning...
It is not a huge bathroom but cozy, with a bathroom heater fan above, and practical!
It can serve us for many years to come.

Thanks for your visit and comment!



Related links:
{Our New Shower with Dreamline Frameless Sliding Shower Door} | previous post by me



Monday, June 10, 2013

{Our Guest Bathroom}

One more project to show you about; and after all, you had not seen Our Guest Bathroom before... Here she comes:
This is the same vanity from Italy as we have in our Master Bathroom. You can find the link below.
We did bring this home with us from Italy in a container, after not building our home there but returning to the U.S.A.
In the mirror you can see the bi-fold closet doors. As said before, this house has numerous build in closets and we love it!
That is the door to the hallway. Behind the high gloss white vanity cabinet from Italy, you see a Swedish IKEA GODMORGON high gloss white cabinet, as it did match perfectly. I keep my Lampe Berger Collection inside for my Zen Cart powered on line Boutique: Mariette's Back to Basics.
On the other wall is also an IKEA GODMORGON high gloss white.
We do have three of these brass with porcelain door knobs.
Two in the master bathroom on each side of the door. Great for hanging your robe and such.
These came from Restoration Hardware in the 1990s and they no longer carry them.
From Home Depot came these Snow White tiles, which Pieter used to create a tile baseboard instead of the wooden one. After we had our master bathroom done; Pieter worked on the guest bathroom and did it himself.
Nice shiny and easy to clean.
At Complete Tile Collection NYC New York they do have a 5-½" high Normandy Baseboard by Vermeere Ceramic Tile Molding. That might have worked too. Their Skirting Baseboard is almost 1" too short for replacing our wooden baseboards. We were restricted to size. 
The wall paper is washable too and we don't need to replace that any time soon.
Standing near the hallway door now and looking towards the window.
This bathroom is rather long.
The cotton mats are from Italy.
The vanity has halogen lights; never hot and provide a perfect view with the large beveled mirror.
Now you can see the bi–fold closet doors and the sliding tub doors behind. That's the exact same bathtub that we replaced in our master bathroom with a shower. This works fine; still one tub left in the home!
In front of the tub doors you see a pull chain; that is for the heat lamp above.
To the left you see the double IKEA GODMORGON high gloss white cabinet.
Danish Damixa faucet in white. We used to have the very same in our master bathroom but had to replace it with a chrome Damixa.
Dolomiti is written in the vanity sink... made in Northern Italy.
Here you can see the air-conditioning ceiling register to the left and the exhaust fan with two heating lamps in front of the tub. We have those in all bathrooms and that is such a luxury. You just pull them on and pamper yourself when toweling dry. Not in the summer of course!
We picked up this idea when visiting friends in Australia and had them installed in our home.
Our German 'son' even has them installed in their master bathroom.
If you lived with them, you never want to do without!
To the right you see the other IKEA GODMORGON high gloss white cabinet. 
My French Linen Angels you can find below post in link.
Another Danish Damixa faucet in white. The shower head we no longer have in white...
This is the exact same as we used to have in the master bathroom.
Hard to catch on camera and with the flash you get all kind of shine...
A convenient chrome caddy from Tuesday Morning...
Almost impossible to capture my hand made filet lace embroidered angels by daylight...
The same hand crocheted edging around the filet lace embroidered work as in the master bathroom... See link below post.
There you go; photo taken at dark... Angels & Roses!
The same solid oak, painted white indoor shutters as in all rooms except kitchen and veranda.
Tiny brass nails that got painted white and will never tarnish the hand embroidered lace.
You can read more about it from my previous post below...
This toilet with Eco friendly dual flush, we did bring home from Costco in Miami... 
The two toilet tissue holders we picked up as an idea at the Grand Hyatt in Atlanta; see previous post about it below.
The toilet tissue stand is from Tuesday Morning.
Ending with this sculptured watercolor by Patsy Gullett... see post about it below.
So what do you think; is this guest bathroom looking okay to you?


Related links:
{Our New Shower with Dreamline Frameless Sliding Shower Door} | previous post by me
{Our Bathroom Renovation from Tub to Shower while Caring for the Environment} | previous post by me
{Our Rose Suite Bedroom} | previous post by me showing our other, integrated bathroom, with shower
{French Country Style at Mariette's Back to Basics} | previous post by me showing the IKEA GODMORGON high gloss white cabinets
{OUR EXCEPTIONAL VOSSEN INTERNATIONAL TERRY TOWELS} | previous post by me about our 30+ year old towels
{2 Ideas picked up at the Grand Hyatt, Atlanta} | previous post by me
{My Private Lampes Berger Collection + Boutique Items} | previous post by me showing the IKEA GODMORGON cabinets.
{My Hand Made Filet Lace Embroidered Angels} | previous post by me showing bathroom window
{Sculptured Watercolors by Patsy Gullett since 1981} | previous post by me
{My French Linen Angels + INFO for Toile de Jouy Fabrics} | previous post by me

Monday, March 25, 2013

{Our New Shower with Dreamline Frameless Sliding Shower Door}


  • As promised, here I will show you our finished Bathroom Renovation with Our New Shower with Dreamline Frameless Sliding Shower Door. 
  • As you may already know from different rooms in our home, we both appreciate simple lines. 
  • For kitchen and bathroom that means LOTS of WHITE. Since we have a combination of an Italian bathroom cabinet vanity in high gloss lacquered white and Danish Damixa faucets it is a unique mix.

  • Our New Shower with Dreamline Frameless Sliding Shower Door with 3/8" or 10mm thick glass.
  • We managed to have it all DONE before Christmas of 2012.
  • The tiles we chose were from Home Depot in Bright Snow White for the walls, ledge and front.
  • Clean and simple lines.


  • Showing the bottom part of the Dreamline Frameless Sliding Shower Door.

  • Above to the right is a Hotel Cabinet with Cubbies in White.
  • Do you like our Night Stand Pet House? One of our felines sleeps frequently inside, on top of her pillows... Click the hyperlink to see a picture of cat stepping out of it!

  • Our Conair magnifying mirror above the towel rack.

  • In yesterday's post about the renovation from tub to shower, I did show you one picture with a 'gap' between the shower pan and our white tile floor from Italy. 
  • Husband Pieter did solve it by adding one layer of backer board in front of the pan and we had it than tiled the way it is in this picture. No more gap!
  • All our wooden base boards we replaced by tiles, so much easier to clean!

  • A better view of our Hotel Cabinet with Cubbies in White.
  • Our wall paper just remained the way it was; no damage at all.

  • Our exceptional Vossen International Terry Towels and wash hands (not wash cloth...) that I have for 35 years.
  • Read below a previous post that I did about them.

  • Our bathroom cabinet vanity in high gloss white from Italy. We did bring  that back home  to the USA with us, after not building our home in Italy. In our guest bathroom we do have an identical cabinet vanity, we shipped 2 back from Italy. There I have added IKEA GODMORGON high gloss white cabinets as well. They did match perfectly and I was so happy finding them in Atlanta.
  • Danish Damixa faucet.
  • In the cabinet door you can see the shadow of an angel... That is in the window but I will post separately about it. 
  • All our windows, except in the veranda and kitchen, do have solid oak indoor shutters that are lacquered in white.

  • The other side of the window with the indoor shutter in the Charleston style, just like our doors.
  • Brass with white porcelain knob on the door for hanging robes.
  • Here you see our Restoration Hardware Cartwright Medicine Cabinet with mirror, above the toilet.
  • Toilet is by Toto with softclose lid.

  • Ending full circle...

And 'H', do you like our bathroom renovation?


Related links:
{Our Bathroom Renovation from Tub to Shower while Caring for the Environment} | previous post by me
{Our Rose Suite Bedroom} | previous post by me showing our other, integrated bathroom, with shower
{French Country Style at Mariette's Back to Basics} | previous post by me showing the IKEA GODMORGON high gloss white cabinets
{OUR EXCEPTIONAL VOSSEN INTERNATIONAL TERRY TOWELS} | previous post by me about our 30+ year old towels
{2 Ideas picked up at the Grand Hyatt, Atlanta} | previous post by me

Sunday, March 24, 2013

{Our Bathroom Renovation from Tub to Shower while Caring for the Environment}


  • Planning our Master Bathroom Renovation from Tub to Shower started out with ordering our Danish, Damixa Plus Shower Set and Damixa Space Shower Mixer. 
  • Our entire home is equiped with Danish Damixa faucets, except lately in our laundry room. We both agree with the Damixa company philosophy; Caring for the Environment and reducing water consumption by 25% or 30%. Going Green!
  • Just click the above hyperlink to read their statement. 
  • So we did contact our long time business relation Kömhoff Sanitair in Meijel, The Netherlands. 
  • They previously did ship some items to us, in case we did not go to The Netherlands for hand carrying it back home to the USA, inside our suitcases. 
  • This was mid August... the first step was laid. 
  • The reason we wanted to proceed with this renovation was because of the great difficulty I had in January of 2010 when I had become paralyzed. For husband Pieter, having to lift me over that tub's edge for taking a shower was nearly impossible. Not because I'm heavy but a motionless person doesn't give... 

  • Not a great photo but you still can see the tub with mirrored tub doors...
  • Our vanity is from Italy. We did bring it with us after living there but not building our home in Italy.


  • Danish Damixa Space Shower Mixer that we ordered.
  • We also had a new water filter and conditioner installed, before proceeding with the renovation because we have very hard water in our area.
  • We moved into our Rose Suite while doing the renovations... 
  • Out came the fiber glass tub and also our all white Damixa Tub Mixer...
  • Dusty job!

  • The drain goes into our garage's ceiling...

  • This was on November 8, 2012 and Pieter wanted to make sure that our Tile Redi Bathtub Replacement Shower Pan would actually FIT.
  • It will; so I went ahead and ordered it on line, from Coral Springs, Florida...


  • We did go ahead and selected their Redi Drain in Polished Chrome. Easy for the tile men to work around.

  • A  special aluminum guard is included in their Bathtub Replacement as well.

  • The day after Thanksgiving, November 23 of 2012, Pieter did cement this Redi Tile Shower Pan in place!
  • You can see the shelves in our Master Bedroom closet through those holes...

  • ALL Made in the USA...

  • A nice ledge in the front for the shower door...

  • A sample tile in Snow White on the ledge. 
  • All our bathroom tiles came in a container across the ocean from Italy, so we had to find some matching ones for this shower!

  • The entire pan...
  • That will make quite a difference for getting in and out of; whenever health conditions would change for either one of us.

  • Husband Pieter working out something for covering up the space in front of the pan...
  • You will see it later!

  • Next search was for a fitting shower door.
  • We found that Lowe's had by far the best selection.
  • We wanted something in a simple Scandinavian look so we found it: 
  • DreamLine 60-in W x 72-in H Frameless Sliding Shower Door
  • Our Cute Ute; Ravy our RAV4 did haul it back home from the Lowe's store.

  • Frankly speaking, I was very happy to reach our destiny just before dark; driving this load home.

  • Of course our cats must inspect whatever we bring home...

Till next time where you will see it all built in!

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