Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer Hi Again-
This is a small, L-shaped bathroom that was challenging because of its limited exterior views (it looks out on an alley), its pass-through layout, and its limited 9' ceiling height. By putting the shower in the corner, we were able to do a good-sized 5 x 5 shower with a bench (behind the left hand pony wall), rain head, and hand-held shower. The door is about as small as you can go at 22" wide; the top of the shower glass surround is at 90" high, the flat ceiling over the bath is at 96" high, and the barrel ceiling over the long axis of the "L" shape rises up about another 12" high.

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer The knee wall in this bathroom is about 40" high. (Hint- we're running most vanity counters at 36" high, so you can gauge the height by comparing the top of the knee wall to that counter.)

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer This tile is from a company called Jeffrey Court. It's from their Chapter 18, "Mozart's Mosaics" series, and we used the color called "Classical Ivory." (it looks pretty much like Crema marfil marble.) I've used this tile a few times, and, as you might expect from a natural stone, I've found that there is quite a bit of variation in the color. In the case of the bathroom shown above, my clients didn't like the pieces that had streaks of terra cotta color, so we did the project "Select:" we ordered an extra 20% or so of material, and we pulled the more colorful pieces out. We've also used the "Allegro White" colorway a few times, and we've been very happy with the finished result.

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer These windows are easier to create than you might think. Because they were exterior windows and had to be double-glazed, we used SGO (Stained Glass Overlay), a process that uses vinyl and lead appliques to simulate the look of stained glass without the thickness or loss of heat issues. It sounds tacky, I know, but most people never realize that the windows are not "true" cut glass, and the cost for the smaller of the 2 windows was around $400, I believe. (We had them copy a design from a craftsman tile that we liked.) You can Google SGO to find a franchise near you. (We're in southern California, and we used the Carlsbad SGO office--they were fantastic to work with.)

Design Moe Kitchen & Bath / Heather Moe designer See www.sgodesignerglass.com or call corporate headquarters (714-974-6124) for your nearest SGO workshop.