- 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.
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
- 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...
- 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!
Related links:
- On February 18, I got a reply comment from Jim, who writes the blog: RoadToParnassus. His last post was: Happy Snake Year, in regard to February 10, the beginning of the Chinese New Year.
- Jim is always showing the most interesting oriental collections and this time it was all about snakes.
- My comment in regard to his last picture was about the Hindu Deity Hanuman, or Hanoman in Indonesian.
- We do have two Hanuman statues in wood and they both show this Hindu God fighting a snake. You can find a link about: {Our Veranda} below this post.
- He suggested I show a photo of our statue. So this is in reply to his request.
- What better way to start with our Indonesian Foster Daughter Anita, with the tall wooden Hanuman statue from Bali to the left.
- Husband Pieter did receive this heavy 'Iron' wood statue from our boss in Indonesia in the 1970s. Iron wood is derived from the Metrosideros excelsa. Images of iron wood (click)
- Hanuman is a Monkey God in the Hindu religion, believed to be an albino, a white monkey.
- He fought evil and won. Symbolic, Pieter did give them good advise so the problems in their mushroom business went away.
- That's how we got our first Hanuman (Sanskrit language).
- Below this post you find several links for reading more.
Blogger friend Jim did write about:
Happy Snake Year where his last photo looks like another Hanuman
- Okay, now let's look at our Hanuman statues.
- First I show you the smaller one we got, from Bali in May of 1983 when I went for the very first time to Indonesia. In Ubud, Bali we found this at the workshop of a wood carver with 10 children!
- Did bring them outside, near our pond against the big semi-evergreen oak tree.
- This is Lord Hanuman fighting the serpent. It is biting in his foot...
- You clearly can see the serpent/snake wrapped all around him...
- This is the back side and the snake is wrapped up around his tail...
- From the side, you also see Lord Hanuman's loin cloth draping down.
- Those Balinese wood carvers are such great artists!
- This is the tall and very heavy IRON wood Hanuman statue that was to the left of our Anita.
- It resides in our veranda and it looks a lot lighter out in the bright daylight.
- Above the loin cloth of Lord Hanuman you see the snake...
- Snake around his waist...
- With one hand he is holding the snake that is around his waist...
- Clearly the snake head in his throat...
- Again, very intricate wood carving!
- Okay Jim, let's hope this did satisfy your request for showing a photo of our Hanuman statues.
- Both of us sat through such a Ramayana play with dance and beautiful costumes.
A different culture but very exotic!
Hope you enjoyed this info about our life in Indonesia.
Related links:
{Our Veranda} | previous post by me
CHRISTIE'S FOUR BALINESE IVORY CARVINGS | Two carvings of Hanuman subduing naga (serpent)
Bart Laurens - Hanuman | in Dutch showing statue of Hanuman fighting with a snake
Hanuman | Story about Hanuman
The Mystery of Hanuman - Inspiring Tales from Art and Mythology | Interesting read
Lord Hanuman About the Simian God of the Hindus | Good information
Hanuman Langur monkey | Connection with Indian Mythology
Interesting post by blogger friend Rosemary:
Temples, Tea and Forever England where she shows Hanuman as well.
