Spotted at the tile showroom yesterday, this glass tile is a new twist on the text as decor theme: To be quite honest, I can’t say if there are too many adjectives, verbs, or anything else. What does it all mean? It takes me right back to Latin class – where the main thing I ...
I’m suddenly swamped (not literally – I’m not talking about leaky plumbing) in bathrooms needing remodels this week. Here a couple of beauties from my inspiration files: (in Kyoto via) While the first uses beautiful natural materials to bring the outdoors in, the second is so completely flooded with the outdoors that anything beyond the ...
A lovely mosaic wall - this would surely encourage inspiring thoughts while relaxing in the tub: (via) The inspiration (I know you knew this) is Van Gogh’s Starry Night – stripped of everything but the stars. Pretty cool, don’t you think? Related Posts:New Ravenna TileMy mosaic – the big revealMosaic time for meKitchen backsplash – ...
A lovely calming bath, the perfect place for a soak and the chance to escape from your busy holiday schedule for a while: And just in case you wash away your memory as well as your cares, the way out is sign-posted for you. Or is it? A comment (albeit inaccurate) on the bathroom decor? ...
Everybody’s talking about the Pantone Color of the Year for 2011 – and if you thought I’d resist, well, I’m sorry, I just can’t. Pantone’s Honeysuckle looks like this: Or maybe more like this: The variation just shows how impossible it is to compare colors over the web – I’ve calibrated my screen with some ...
Fireclay Tile is one of our local treasures here in the San Francisco Bay Area – making beautiful artisan tile right on our doorstep in San Jose, and making it in ever more environmentally efficient ways, too: Lately they’ve been getting national recognition for the innovative re-use of landfill bound porcelain – a difficult material ...
I really admire this tiny powder room, tucked in under the staircase. Everything you need is there, with plenty of aplomb and not an inch wasted: Now I realise it is very tiny, it certainly wouldn’t be comfortable for your master bath or family bath (I may not have told you I am the proud ...