WAUNA TILE & STONEWORKS
VIPOND BLUFF
This is a remodel job of the master shower area and hallway shower that turned into much more. The new homeowners were wanting to make some changes to fit thier liking and lifestyle and that started in the master bathroom. They had knocked out a closet in an adjoining room to open up the shower when it was handed over to me. I installed a traditional "alternate" shower pan with a full length bench that comes out of the entryway and then becomes a tub deck for a large jacuzzi tub. The shower got tile with the timeless rittenhouse "subway" tile in a large format and the shower pan recieved a river rock mosaic. I incorporated an inset niche and did a herringbone pattern on the ceiling. The tile continued to the tubdeck and that also got a backsplash surround that continued in and back out of the window area. Next was the upstairs hall/ guest bathroom shower which stayed almost the same to match with the master bathroom shower with the only differance of the tile being a beveled edge.
Next, it was time to move my attention downstairs. They wanted to have L.V.T. installed, no problem but with the floor being that of a daylight basement, the foundation concrete was far from good enough to install the luxury vinyl plank without getting the floor flat enough so there would be no issues with the installation. Alltogether it took 60 bags of a self-leveling compound to fill in all the low spots, from there places got feather finished out and the L.V.T. was installed, the flooring downstairs ran from the 2nd kitchen into a open area and into a movie room and a gym/workout room, around the corner and down a hallway into a 3rd guest bathroom and a bedroom. Then after they had the wood from thier old deck repurposed on the wine room walls, I installed a 12"x24" honed montauk black slate on the floor. Next came a small blue and gray river rock style backsplash in the 3rd bathroom that got lined with 1/2" pencil liners. The entry into the shower of that bathroom needed something for asthetics, I suggested to line the entry with a matching blue glass tile, and a 3"x9" true blue glass got installed, which definetly helped to tie that bathroom shower together with the rest of the decor/theme. Next came the downstairs kitchen backsplash. I installed a 3"x9" subway style ceramic tile after the live edge shelf mounts were installed, behind the induction heat stove, an inlay was installed consisting of a marble hex mosaic with gold accents and framed in with carerra marble liners.
With the garage converted into living space, back upstairs I went. First came the tile flooring, this was a fun one for me. Before anything could begin and knowing all the weight that was going to be added, I went under the main kitchen area floor as that was a storage void in the house, and installed 4"x4" supports about every 4 ft. apart from one another. Then came the fun stuff, I ran 215 sq.ft. of NuHeat in-floor heat wire, which is 849 ft. long. I then damed off the kitchen, pantry, laundry and storage areas and encased the heat wire with a 40 bag pour of heat rated self leveler. After some going back and forth on the tile pattern, I got to install a versalles variation throughout, which consisted of 12"x24", 12"x12" and 24"x24". This pattern ran through the kitchen and breakfast nook, down a hallway which has a pantry and laundry room and down a set of 4 stairs. With having some fall cuts off the 24"x24" when I got to the steps, I was able to talk the homeowners into installing 2 subtle inlays, one at the top and one at the bottom of the steps. After that was all installed it was back to L.V.T. for the rest of the upstairs flooring. After 1/2" tounge and groove plywood was installed, I put down the Luxury Vinyl Tile in the dining area, family area into the main entryway, down a radius hallway and into a guest bedroom.
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Next came the front entrance patio. Schluter Ditra was installed as the underlayment/waterproofing/crack isolation and the top landing area along with 3 steps got a 12"x24" honed montauk black slate. The verticle sides got black ledgerstone installed. The same black ledgerstone transfered back inside to the fireplace which also has 2 seating areas on either side. All the ledgerstone corners were hand chiseled for a natural look as compared to the cheap looking corners that you can buy in-store. Ofcourse all the tile was sealed with a heavy duty impregnating sealant and the natural stone presealed along with a final seal. A year and a half later and this house was complete.