Bathtub Bravo

Almost everyone who has seen the tub asks if they can take a bath when the house is done. I suspect those of you who haven’t asked are just shy.  When the house is done, I may start renting the tub out.  We have to pay for the build somehow.  There’s precedence for this…a nickel for a hot bath in the old west.  So, $20 for a bath in the western suburbs? I suspect the village would have something to say about that and I'd be violationg about 100 health codes.  So, I'll keep the tub to myself.

The other question everyone asks is "where did you find that tub?"  If you search  Amazon for "slipper tub" you might think we spent $5,995 on the Barclay 66" Slipper tub.  And you'd be wrong.  $5,995 for a tub was not in the budget.  


Maybe you wouldn't do a search for a bathtub on Amazon.  Before this build I certainly would not have done it. But now it would be my first stop...we ended up buy over 80% of all the plumbing fixture from Amazon...just not the tub.


If you were to do a search on Houzz (a site I've been addicted to throughout this entire build) for "freestanding slipper tub" you might think we spent over $4,000 for the Victoria and Albert Amalfi tub. And you'd be wrong.  $4,000 for a tub was not in the budget.  


If you do have $4,000 in the budget for the Victoria and Albert tub can you build a new bath and let me take a bath at your house?  I love my new tub but the finish on the Victoria & Albert is a little bit nicer.  Maybe you'll have the drop-dead gorgeous tiles use in this bathroom.  Click on the picture to see other images on Houzz from this house.  The shower is amazing.

Another wonderful
Victoria & Albert tub!

 My dream tub is an Ofuro style soaker.   I asked Dr. Google about these tubs (multiple times.) Every search I did led to Signature Hardware's selection.  Sadly, none of these tubs would fit in our new bathroom.  But plenty of the  other tubs would fit...but the pricing (compared to the other tubs I looked at) seemed way too good to be true.  Last spring break we decided to let the girls get their horse fix and took a drive to Lexington.  We took a little detour and visited Signature Hardware's show room.  The first time I climbed into the 66" Susanna Freestanding Resin Slipper Tub I knew this was the tub.


The price I paid for the tub was less than what's currently listed on the web site.  I'm not going to pretend like it's not a lot of money for a bath tub.  My original budjet was a max of $1,200.  So I blew that but the whole experience gave me the confidence to source all the plumbing fixtures myself and still came under budget (barely.)

My awesome tub!