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Review of the Bathroom Tiling and Fixtures

Bob looks at the finished wall tile from Shaw in the second floor bathroom off the hall. The bathroom is cleverly designed with the tub and toilet in an alcove separated by a door from the sink. The tile is a white tile with a blue and yellow flower and a matching frieze. The tiling was essentially two-day mastic job. The lavatory has a Pennington self-rimming cast iron sink with an enamel finish from Kohler. The faucet elements are high quality castings from Kohler's Revival collection.

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" This is the bathroom on the second floor off the hall. So, this is the one that anybody in the family can use, and it's cleverly designed because the toilet and the tub are in one alcove. There'll be door here separating it from the sink. But look at this tile, this is, again, from Shaw it's a white tile with a blue and yellow flower and then a matching freeze, and it all goes together, you know, in the traditional simple way of mastic, a few cuts here, and then you grout it. It's essentially a 2-day job, but this come out very, very nicely, and then on the other side of the door, you'll have a lavatory. This is Pennington self-rimming lav left from Kohler, and of course, it's cast iron with an enamel finish. And you've got the faucets that which is called Revival, and often, you wanna make sure that you save enough in your budget to put high quality castings in the fittings, in the bathroom because they may call the difference and you want them to last for a long, long time"

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