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Bathroom Fixtures and Porcelanosa Tile

Bob and Chris Vila continue the walk-through of the Manhattan Brownstone with a look at the new bathroom. The former bathroom was completely gutted, but the footprint remains the same. The new look is very clean and sleek with elegant, solid fixtures in the shower and sink. The Toto pedestal sink and toilet are contemporary with very clean lines. An oil-filled, electric wall radiator from Runtle will warm the space as needed and also serve as a towel warmer. The tile on the walls, floor, and shower are all from Porcelanosa. The wall tile is a white, large-format tile called Subway that is designed to replicate the feel of an urban subway station. The stone green tile on the floor is Durango Stone, which is an outdoor tile that was used on the patio as well. The glass shower tile flows like water across the walls and is called Glacier Glass.

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Bathroom Fixtures and Porcelanosa Tile

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" The bathroom is also a space that was guided entirely but the footprint is the same as what was here's the footprints and it was laid out differently inside but we've just changed -- on the -- by masonry -- exterior as laws on that -- here right but boy what was here did not look all right. What we have realist let's go item by -- anyone of my favorite things is the fittings that we've got here's the these in the shower fittings right we've got these German designed. Fittings if you pick these up there and got a lot of weight to them they really feel saw a lot of things -- pick up nowadays. Just -- feels tensions -- high quality and if you look at the ones that are on the pedestal sink which heard Japanese they're also very high quality and very similar in compatible design. Now does that pedestal sink is from Toto which again is a Japanese company this -- it's it's a beautiful designs and guides all porcelain it's good music if they're very nice contemporary look and has the matching water closet or toilet that he doesn't the space in a room like this took to put holes. Storage for instance you're going to want to variously constant. And then we added what -- basically an almost disappearing radiator on the wall above the toilet right this is an electric radiator just controllers which journalist and it's oil filled and it's made by a Swiss company called Gruntal and an open question and it's nice because it tools also has towel -- OK so you can keep it tells us is not going to happen in the neat thing that really unifies the space is -- using three different types of ceramic tile from porcelanosa. And the quite tiles that are on the walls. Our large format the they're they're kind of in the subway tile gives you wanted to recreate the look of a subway and they've been installed in a running bond -- to keep these joints and very -- on the floor tiles are actually intended for outdoor use -- Missouri called Durango stone from porcelanosa. They look like real stone that's got that sort of pattern and then we've got this beautiful glass mosaic tiles costing -- glacier glass indeed. From porcelanosa. "

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