Garage & Brewery
Apply Bright Lighting to make a room look bigger... Good lighting is important to making any space look big and open, but in bathrooms, which often don’t have much natural light available, it’s especially important. Plus, in a bathroom, you need good lighting to do things such as shave or apply makeup effectively, so its importance can’t be overstated.
Use a Floating Vanity to make the room look bigger... In a tight bathroom space, it can be tricky to balance a demand for storage with a desire for space to breathe. A floating vanity is a great answer. It gives you lots of room to store daily essentials, but the peek of flooring underneath makes the area feel a notch more open. In a very small space, having a little bit more room to plant your feet can make a big difference.
Try Tone on Tone to make a bathroom look bigger... Not a fan of stark white? You can still get a very big and breezy effect with a tone-on-tone palette in warm beige, soft grays or even faint hues such as powder blue. Choose a sumptuous tile, and find a paint color for the remaining walls that picks up on one of the hues within it. The overall effect is still serene and spa-like, without the jarring visual breaks to shrink your perception of the space.
Go Airy With White on White to make the space look bigger... One of the easiest ways to give your room a spacious look is to use lots of white — white tile, white paint, a white vanity and so on. This noncolor-color naturally recedes, making the space look bigger. It also reflects any available light, rather than absorbing it.
Toto in wall tank system $480
Wall hung toilet for garage bath $310 by Toto
Vigo Zurich pull-down spray kitchen faucet in chrome MODEL NUMBER: VG02007CH
Vigo 36 Bedford SS Farmhouse sink MODEL NUMBER: VGR3620CK1
Vigo 36 Bedford SS sink MODEL NUMBER: VGR3620CK1
Houzer Platus Fireclay 33in $490
36x24 single tub SS sink
FRP panel at Home Depot
Floor drain at Crossbuck Brewing
Floor drain at Crossbuck
Dan C's SS hood
Dan C NW corner
from The Electric Brewery
from The Electric Brewery
from The Electric Brewery
Wood-Cozied Nook Timber beams, reclaimed wood and metal ceiling tiles bring rustic antique charm to this Austin, Texas, home bar by Æ Interiors. The lower ceiling distinguishes the space from the rest of the room and makes it a cozy spot to serve or be served.
Accent With Reclaimed Wood People wanting to add an accent wall in reclaimed wood are finding a home bar is a good place to do it. Perhaps it’s the resemblance to oak wine barrels or the memory of a favorite woodsy tavern.
Note the galvanized pipe shelving
Seated home bar - mid-sized rustic u-shaped medium tone wood floor and brown floor seated home bar idea in Salt Lake City with dark wood cabinets, stone tile backsplash, brown countertops, recessed-panel cabinets, wood countertops and brown backsplash
A TV wall with barn wood.
Black and Gold You have to look a little closely to spot the gorgeous details of this drinks station designed by JDP Interiors in a Los Angeles home. In the bar alcove, subtly textured black terra-cotta tiles (from Waterworks) add depth and dimension and act as a dark backdrop for a custom suspended brass-and-glass shelving unit. Vintage-style brass shelf rails frame the open shelving for an elegant look.
In the Basement The basement of the Colonial-style home outside of Boston whose bar area is seen here was once covered in dark paint and wood — the opposite of what the new homeowners had in mind. They hired interior designer Kelly McGuill to give this dark space and other rooms in the house new life. McGuill used fresh white paint and open shelving to bring lightness to the new home bar, and carved out slots for wine bottles and space for a narrow wine fridge.
Take a Seat Warm, welcoming tones and textures abound in this kitchen-size home bar by A. Sadowski Designs. The designer used a 2-inch-thick slab of reclaimed oak, stained dark walnut, to anchor the home bar and tie it in with the exposed beams overhead and new floating shelves. Scooped leather bar seats invite one to take a seat and enjoy a beer on tap.
Rustic Touches Chunky stone facing and an oversize wood countertop give this home bar in Montana a welcoming mountain-pub feel. The space, by Madison Creek Furnishings & Design, features the same bar stools used in the main kitchen — as well as charcoal and slate gray tones and rich, dark wood used throughout the home — for continuity.
A Cheers! type of bar.
Original idea for garage and brewery...
Visually Push the Walls Apart to make a room look bigger... If your bathroom is already very long and tunnel-shaped, rather than emphasize the length even more, consider working against the length and visually stretching the width instead. This room uses the direction of the long, elegant floor tiles, as well as a band of accent tile in the shower, to visually stretch the width of the room for a more balanced look and a less tunnel-like atmosphere.
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