There’s nothing quite like a real shower out in the open (and I don’t mean the rainy kind): Outdoor laundry is good, too, and good for the planet: I’ll volunteer to watch it drying, if you like. Related Posts:The House of the SunSunday GetawayTub with a viewInviting, at all?A sustaining shower ...
Here’s a backsplash trying to be several different backsplashes at the same time: Seems the designer (I use the word in its broadest possible sense) couldn’t quite make a decision. There’s granite, slate, tumbled travertine mosaic (with pewter accents), and slate again. Whew – just one of those selections would have done the job (via). Although this ...
Caught sight of this on Remodelista today – apparently the bucket is for handy storage of bathroom items: Silly me, I took it for an extremely low tech flushing mechanism. I wouldn’t like to be in range if that thing really got swinging – galvanized buckets are pretty hard and unforgiving. Related Posts:On words – a woman’s ...
…is to change her mind. Though actually, I think that should be a designer’s prerogative, or even better, a human’s. I’ve rabbited on rather tiresomely (here and here, for instance) about my contempt for slogans and phrases painted or stuck on walls. But I love this idea: (found here and here) Why has this changed my mind? ...
I’m really liking striated travertine lately (see it in this post, and here). Today I want to give a big thank you to Steph, who writes the Granite Gurus blog, for setting me on the hunt for silver travertine. Here’s a gorgeous example, all the way from Brazil: Clearly, silver travertine is not always very silver ...
Just a few classic green and white bathrooms for you today. Green is, according to theories of color psychology, the most relaxing color – with gray and white in this spare and elegant bathroom, it certainly works for me: Here’s a simple green and white cottagey bathroom, from (dare I say it) Pottery Barn. Just a ...
Did you see this at Granite Gurus this week? A beautiful block of travertine – destined to become an even more beautiful bathtub: As they say in Italy Eccola in tutto il suo splendore! I’m liking travertine cut to reveal the layers more and more these days – remember this backsplash? Thanks, for sharing these pictures – ...