Bathroom Floor Tile

The bathroom floor tile is in.

The vanity will go against the wall, and the shower is on the right

Looking towards the door

Toilet goes here

When the house was designed, we didn't really know we'd be doing in the master bathroom, and later we decided we wanted an open shower area with a sloped floor.  Normally, to do this, the floor in the shower area is built lower than the rest of the floor and then built up to create a slope, but at this point, in order to do this, we would have to trim the floor joists, curt the floor out in the shower area, and re-build that part of the floor--a change that requires revision of the building plans and approval from the Building Department. We decided we didn't want to  go through that process and do the additional construction, so we decided to build up the rest of the floor around the shower.

First we installed 1/4-inch plywood on top of the subfloor in the entire bathroom except for the shower area, and 1/4-inch cement board will go on top of that.  That will give us enough of an elevation difference for the water the drain properly.

Shower area on the right, free-standing bathtub goes on the left

Bathtub goes on the right, toilet is on the left

Doorway into the master bedroom. Vanity goes on the left, and toilet behind the low wall on the right