Master Bath Lighting and then some

The home we bought was a pretty penny and when you spend that type of money you really don't expect a 4 year old home to be a fixer upper, but it's turning into one.  The bad news is the expense, the good news is making this house what it could've and should've been had the builder been good at his job.   This guy has NO DESIGN experience and shouldn't make ANY design choices, I mean none, nada.  He's awful.  

We've painted the whole place, recarpeted the whole place, replaced every appliance we could except for the microwave and the cooktop - though the cooktop does not work properly.  We replaced all the toilets.  Now we are working on closets, improving storage and lighting.  So far 20 fixtures have been removed with round 2 coming soon.  Do you think I can sell the old stuff?  Nope, no one wants them!!  I had to take them all to Habitat Restore.  I almost asked the builder if he wanted them back.  When done, every light and fan in this house will be replaced.  And a cohesive design will be seen and felt.  

Here is what the builder put in the Master Bathroom!!  And he paried it with cheap faucets in a different finish and oil rubbed bronze knobs and hinges.  Now what's funny is when we got rid of the mini version of the "chandalier" you see pictured that hung in my back stairwell, the decorative piece wasn't ever installed on the bottom.  When you looked up, you saw bolts, not to mention the stariwell walls were painted in flat either brown or gold paint, I can't even remember but it was like a cave because of lack of light. 

Does anyone know what this stuff might have cost him?  To me the quality is "what was on sale" since nothing relates to any anything to create a design.  In the master bath, the sinks are on separate vanities, raise your hand if you think he added 2 light switches.  One at each sink - for each adult.  Yup, you guessed it, to save money he added just one switch.  If you want to turn on the switch, you have to walk all the way back to the door to turn it on.  To further save money when he installed the towel bars, there is 1 bar that we have to share and 1 ring at 1 sink.  

Additionally, we replace the "noisemaker" whcih is the term we coined for the world's tiniest , noisiest and most inefficient vent on the planet that draws out no humidity.  It rattled like no one's business and does nothing more than that.  

To further support my zig and zag theory, I would think when you look at a vaulted ceiling, you would place the vent on the vault closest to the SHOWER.  Nope, this fool put the vent on the side closest to the door.  I couldn't wait to have it removed and we added a Panosonic super quiet super CFM (actually duel speed) and we installed it set to the higher speed.  But in all fairness, the master bath in any new home should have a HV minimum on a double switch or HVL on a triple switch.  To add to the misery, not only did he not do that, it's a vent only and the vault on the attic side is completely closed in and un-acessible, so we can't change it if we wanted to.

See the cave of a master shower, he opted not to add a light, probably because it costs too much!  Like a whopping $30 for the can and $8 for a bulb plus labor when all there was was framing.  I am adding one when we got the master bath but for now the height of this chandilier and the spread of the light accutually illuminates the shower, so I can wait on that.  

The chandalier is Gabby (pictured with fully lit) and the 4-bulb lights, Capital (dimmed some.)  We used this combination in my last master bath and it's amazing!

We are completely gutting the master and resuing eveything we have bought so far, but we have a few other project ahead of it.  For now, the new lighting, on dimmers, oh my gosh!  The ambiance is beautiful.  So it's an improvement when coupled with a working vent.