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Day 913…

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010


Nope, I didn't finish the bathroom this weekend like I'd thought! I'm tired of it! I never want to see tile again!! I might actually be afraid to enter the bathroom once it is complete… if ever!

Besides taking forever, it is actually coming along quite nicely and I have some pictures for you to view. I also installed a version of  Lightbox Lightbox instructions:

- You can navigate using your mouse, hover over the left or right side click close or grayed out area to close.

- You can use the arrow keys to navigate through pictures, Esc. to close. to make the picture viewing more enjoyable.

Just to take you back, Jen and I got our inspiration for this project when we were in Italy. We stayed at a hotel that had a completely tiled bathroom, with a waterfall tub, rain shower and LED light design in the ceiling, so we decided to design a bathroom that would incorporate some (or all) of these into our own bathroom. We designed it to have the rain shower, regular shower, waterfall bath filler and a fiber optic star field ceiling.

Inspiration in Italy

Inspiration in Italy

Master Plans 1A

Master Plans 1A

Master Plans 1B

Master Plans 1B



We framed and waterproofed the floor, shower and tub area.

Schlutering

Schlutering

working hard

me working (or posing)

Shower waterproofed

Shower waterproofed



We picked some tile we liked and dry fitted it before sticking it down.

Tile that caught our eye

Tile that caught our eye

dry fitting shower

dry fitting shower

dry fitting the floor

dry fitting floor


removed the cabinets

Removed the cabinets

removed cabinets for tiling

Removed the cabinets

We decided to remove the Cabinet and tile under it incase we decide to change out the counter later down the road (which is part of the master plan).

Next we stuck the dry fitted tile down with mortar then cut some more and stuck them down as well. This is a long process when you only work at it evenings and weekends and have a cheap Princess Auto wet saw that only cost $50 and sprays water everywhere when you use it.

dirty

The floor dirty from mortar.

tub taped for protection

Shower and tub partially complete

tub

Dry fitting more tiles around the tub


Almost done

Shower and tub almost complete

 
shower with edging

Putting the tile edging up on the shower

 
tub with edging

Tile edging and more tile around the tub



And this is were I'm at today. The tub side is grouted and the fixers are on. this is what the waterfall tub filler looks like while filling the tub.
Where I'm at on May 4th

I didn't have the magnetic access hatch for the bottom of the tub on that is why the picture is cut off an on an angle.


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Star Field (Complete)

Friday, March 19th, 2010

In my first post I kind of explained how I made the star field, in this one I’ll show the results.

Location for star field in bathroom ceiling.

In our bathroom I lowered the ceiling 4″ over the tub and made a recessed area of where the light panel was going to be placed. everything was taped, mudded, primed and painted prior to the star field install. (unfortunately I never took a picture of this).

After we got the star field in place I patched all the holes and placed a trim around the edges. The end result is shown below, however I still have to cover the access to the CoolSky LED light box and receptacle. I also created a video, but I have to remake it as I filmed it in total darkness and the camera kept going out of focus, it was also a 200M file so it would take quite some time to download. I’ll try to make a better (smaller) video over the weekend.

Completed star field ceiling, well I still need to cover the hatch where the LED module is hiding on the left hand side.


Lit 1

View standing outside of tub (long exposure)


Lit 2

View looking up from the tub. (How many constellations can you find?)



Video of CoolSky LED functions will be coming soon.

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Star Field (post 1)

Friday, March 19th, 2010

I have finally started the star field that will be ending up in my master bathroom ceiling (you can follow that story here).

Star Plot

Star map for ceiling star field. (Click to enlarge)

First off I created an actual star map using wikisky.org then plotted four different star sizes overlaying the map using photo shop. My result is shown on the left, it was scaled down to fit on a 8 X 10 sheet of paper. It worked out so that there are about 170 stars or so in a 3′ X 5′ area.

 

Me plotting

Me plotting stars and measuring for the middle support braces.

 
primed and covering

3 x 5 sheet primed and I'm starting to cover it with construction paper.

Next I primed and painted a 3′ X 5′ sheet of MDF (which I hope was a good material to use, time will tell See Update at bottom of post). I then covered it with construction paper and drew the a scaled grid on it. Then using the printed 8″ X 10″ paper I plotted each star to the best of my abilities and marked it size with different colors. After all the plotting was done and I was satisfied with where the stars where, I drilled each hole one by one using three different sized drill bits (3/64, 1/16, 3/32). I then flipped the board over, remarked what size each star was, and Jen (my wife) and I pushed through the number of fibers I needed for each hole until all 200 of them were completed. Once the fibers where in place, Jen glued them in place with clear silicon.

Installing the fibers

Arranging the fibers


 

Pushing fibers through the board



Update: Well using the sheet of MDF may have not been the greatest idea for a bathroom. Since I had the shower glassed in, the steam from the shower has cause the MDF around each fiber to expand slightly creating a small bump where each fiber is. Though this doesn’t affect the light passing through the fiber it doesn’t look overly appealing to the eye in the daylight. I’m thinking of redoing this project (starfield 2.0) using a John Hardy Cement board or something more moisture resistant. I imagine if i had built this in any other room than the bathroom, MDF would have been fine. Keep checking back for the 2.0 version of the starfield, of course with the twins, basement, laundry room, garage, and wine room… who really knows when that will actually happen.

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Wow, I did it!

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Well actually, Jen and I did it… not that! We finished the star-field last night! It is ready to install! So far it looks pretty good, we should get it in place on the ceiling tonight, then all I have to do is add trim and patch 5 holes, cut the fibers to the same length and done! I should have pics and a video up sometime next week!

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