Thanks. 
I picked out the door itself and the glass from a catalog. But not the color of the front. I was out of town when it came in and SO put it in to surprise me when I got home.
We didn’t even discuss the color. And he told me later he painted it a few times to get just the shade of red he wanted.
I would NEVER have picked that color. I wouldn’t have picked red at all. But now that it’s in, I really like it. The pix don’t really do it justice. 
Is that a wood door? I really like the shade of red, our door is kind of a brick red but more muted. It doesn’t really pop like yours does.
No, it’s steel. I think the front looks like wood though which I like.
OK, RNN.
??? The American Beauty reference? I got that.
Or were you talking about something else?
But you didn’t “note” it.
I “hearted” it. Don’t be so needy! 
Heart returned! Who’d a thunk it 21 years ago??
As I’m sure the software has suggested, get a (renovated) room, you two.
Ugh …. Just noticed that there is a water leak in the primary BR bathroom. I thought the toilet was leaking but I think it’s the water line. Probably going to have to pull up tile, subfloor etc. to fix it.
It’s not as fun doing improvement projects on stuff that didn’t really need improving! 
Also, SO is extremely busy on other contracting projects, lost a whole crew, and so likely won’t have time to do more than rip it up and fix the problem. Which means our bathroom will be an unfinished project for the next 6-9 months. 
Oh jeez. That is going to suck in so many ways!!! Plumbing leaks are horrible, I hope the damage is at least minimal.
Can we talk heated floors? Schluter has a kit that includes everything needed (except for the cost to have an electrician add in a dedicated circuit) for my bathroom for like $900, so with a bit of electrical work and some added labor for the tile guy… let’s say $1,500 all-in.
I’m tryyyyyiiiinnng not to let the budget keep creeping up, but adding this and one of the bidet toilet seat things will just push us back about four weeks. Seems worth it, no?
Restoring the bathroom to its original glory???
Yes and no. This bath was added… I’m guessing ~2000. I’m reasonably committed to maintaining an appropriate look, but I’m willing to bend a little bit.
My vanity (new) is quarter sawn oak, and I’ve ordered soapstone. My wife’s vanity (antique), also quarter sawn, will also get soapstone. I’ll also install quarter sawn baseboards and casings - the door is original to the house, they combined two bedrooms and used one of those doors. The lighting fixtures are all antique, restored and re-wired. The tub will be a claw foot thing. The flooring will be off-white marble. The faucets, towel bars, TP holder, etc, and switch plates are solid, polished brass. This is all at least reasonably in the spirit of the house.
The toilet will be a new Kohler, I could get an old school toilet where the tank mounts high on the wall for like $1,200 and it probably wouldn’t function as well. I’m more interested in function than form, seeing as I’m the one who does the plunging here. And I’m doing a frameless glass shower, which is not period correct but the room is narrow and I wanted to make it look slightly more open. And I am installing a fart fan, not period correct. And we’re doing sconces by the vanities, so I suspect we’ll need a few recessed lights, and that’s fine.
Screw the budget. Do it right. It costs what it costs. The budget is artificial anyway.
I’m quite serious. We treated budget as ‘estimated cost, but likely to go over’, not ‘this is the maximum we’ll spend’. Maximum we’ll spend is what it costs to do it right, and if that’s an extra grand on heated floors, then it’s an extra grand on heated floors.
Also, Yeah, I’d have put in heated floors if I could’ve.
Also there’s a suspicious lack of photos lately. very suspicious.
The actual, actuarial, issue is how long will it last before you have to fix or replace it.
Then PV it, compare to alternatives.
It’s a balance, I want to do it once and do it right. But I also have another $80k of projects after this, so I’m trying not to blow up every budget. But this is fairly small in the grand scheme of things and we obviously use this room every single day. So unless someone tells me heated floors aren’t amazing, I’m gonna do it.
Will be a bit on more pics, see: budget. I think we’ll start demo in early June.
Yeah, as long as you’re not spending your grocery money (which for an actuarial board I assume is not the case), I’d agree with this.
My mom LOVES her heated bathroom floor, FWIW.
I had a heated floor (and towel rack) for six months when I was living in short term corporate housing and what I wouldn’t give to have that in my own home right now…
Would you give about $1500, all in?