I took a break from the Victorianna’s master bedroom to get started on the master bath. I cut a side wall from a piece of plywood. It’s going to be a “Jack and Jill” bath with one door leading into the nursery and one into the master bedroom.

Here’s a mock-up of the furniture placement. I’m putting a soaker tub under the slanted roof. In the opposite corner there will be a shower stall with the same shape as the tub, represented here by a piece of paper.

I bought this bathroom set from Atomic Kiki on Etsy. It’s a resin cast of a Marx bathroom set. (She has some retro kitchens in her store right now, also cast from Marx furniture, but from the dimensions they seem to be closer to 3/4″ scale.)

The tub is 1″ tall and the sides that go up against the walls in the corner are 2.5″ long. That seemed large at first, especially compared to this plastic corner tub I had originally been planning to use. But I searched online for dimensions of soaker tubs and found some that are 24″ tall and 60″ along the wall — exactly the equivalent of 1″ x 2.5″ in half scale.

Here’s the toilet with some other (supposedly) half scale toilets. I thought it was going to be too big, but it’s actually a little smaller than the wooden one I’m using in the Rosedale and Queen Anne Rowhouse. The third in size is 3D printed (I’m using it in the downstairs bathroom) and the smallest is this plastic one which, like the matching tub, seems a bit too small for half scale.

I’m not sure yet if I’ll use the Atomic Kiki toilet in this bathroom or not. This house is pretty modern and Marx furniture is very 1950s. I don’t think the tub looks too retro, but the toilet might.

But enough about toilets! I wanted to do the floor with large subway tiles, and after my disappointing experience with the printed tiles in the Victorianna’s other bathroom, I’m avoiding printies. I looked at real mosaic tiles intended for backsplashes and decided on these mother of pearl tiles. The dimensions are 3/8″ x 3/4″ (comes out to 9″ x 18″ in half scale) and they’re only a few millimeters thick.

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