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21 days ago

This house was built in 1983 and is pretty much soft contemporary. There are post-modern nods in the house because it is of the era.

This bathroom however is new. It was not the original bath here. I thought at first maybe it was a change of faucet and lighting, but everything is new.

Love it or hate it, it's very well done for the Memphis-y sort of style and the tile work is beautifully done. Strict grids drive a lot of people crazy but this one is just very well executed, the groutlines are thin and even. I would want white shower fixtures, or red


The kitchen is also new but has teal corian pulls on the cabinets and a bullnose countertop, also very early 80s redux.

Anyway, I am continually surprised what is available out there considering at any one time the majority of people choosing the same designs as everyone else.







Comments (14)

  • 21 days ago

    That's a very pretty bathroom. Someone with insight and great tast designed it.

  • 21 days ago

    Love it!

  • 21 days ago

    Not really my taste, but I find the grids pleasing. The red grout seems like such an unusual choice.

  • 21 days ago

    I don't like red but that is pretty cool. What does the rest of the house look like?

  • 21 days ago

    I would have actually liked this with blue/teal grout to pick up the cast of the glass block (glass block is not generally a favorite of mine outside of the Deco Machine age period, but again here it works)

    So I would have liked several other colors but red myself but it depends on the grout available and so forth. The shower fixtures I show apparently come in 2 dozen colors.

    The rest of the house is mostly that late 70s early 80s soft contemporary with a little bit of post mod, but I wonder if the current owners added all the post mod.

  • 21 days ago

    I've always like glass block - didn't know it came in colors.

    Is that grout red - or pink? It's giving pink vibes.

    And for some reason, it's reminded me of this scene from the movie 'Toys' 😄



  • 20 days ago

    Not at all a red fan, but I don't hate. They missed out by not doing red shower fixture and faucet. I like the blue glass block versus clear, just because it is different and blue is my favorite color.

  • 20 days ago
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    My immediate reaction was that it was a missed opportunity to use blue grout and have a more cohesive bathroom suitable for all ages rather than one that looks like a preschool.

    I love the white fixtures and that fabulous sink! 💡 Might it be better to have one wider sink in the middle of a long counter with a faucet at each end for a couples’ bathroom? then you’d have much more room on your ”own” side instead of competing ownership of the countertop real estate in the middle.

  • 20 days ago

    This bathroom is attached to a bedroom I believe.

    Without the towel bar this would be a white bathroom with minimal amount of red. It appears that they added the red towel bar and toilet paper holder and a yellow waste basket to the blue glass block to give the room each primary color.

    I would like the blue, but it would be like graph paper--the company makes kelly green fixtures, I might like that with a different glass block

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  • 20 days ago

    Yes, the red grout gives preschool vibes to me, too. I think they missed the mark.

  • 20 days ago

    Great comment about the "preschool" vibe. I agree that blue or teal grout would have felt more cohesive.

  • 19 days ago

    The red grout gives red mold vibes to me.

    I'd be scrubbing it all the time trying to get it clean.

  • 16 days ago

    Looks like a kids’ bathroom, which makes sense given the lil potty seat sitting under the sink. (But odd that for a bathroom used by a toddler, there is no tub.)


    Funny that for a staged photo, they included what appears to be a recycled plastic grocery bag in the trash bin.


    I think it is fun as a kids’/family bath, but it seems so cold.

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