An earthy palette — full of whites, tans and greens — inside this California home echoes the colors outside the window. Beyond color, architectural designer George Bevan of Bevan + Associates added horizontal paneling to counter the high ceiling in the small space. Spikes of green also protrude from the wall. Those are air plants arranged over the tub, giving the room a bit of nature inside.
they installed this rectangular soaker and positioned it to take in filtered light from the north side of the house. The tub frames a tiled open shower in the corner. Water from the showers, bathroom sinks and laundry are hooked up to a greywater system that filters the water and disperses it into the landscape via drip irrigation. “It works great and was relatively low cost,”
Ferris used Bubbles on the walls and floor as well. She solved an adjacency problem with the floor tile by ordering 1-by-1-inch floor mosaics, which come on a mesh, instead of standard-size floor tile. Wherever she wanted to embed Bubbles, she removed a couple of the mosaics and fit it in with some minor tile cutting. “Worked like a charm,” she says.
6. Shower combo. A particularly ingenious way to incorporate the slatted deck as a safety measure is to fit it onto a track that can slide into a recess under the floor. Naturally, this will require extra planning and expense, but it’s a great solution if you want a little flexibility in your bath and shower setup but don’t want the hassle of manually removing the slatted surface every time you want to soak.
Bark Design Architects SaveEmail 5. A removable deck. Alternatively, you might consider asking your carpenter to fabricate a removable deck of wooden slats to cover the tub when not in use. Here, we see how slats create an additional floor surface for showering, if stepping into and out of a tub is not ideal, while the tub hidden underneath can be easily unveiled to accommodate the bather in the family.
love this tile!
Wallpaper: Circus, Cole & Son
Love this storage area
You can have a Jack and Jill setup without having two sinks. Duebber gave his clients the function of two sinks with the minimalist aesthetic they preferred by having one long trough custom-fabricated in concrete and adding two faucets.
Vanity: Leonie, Ronbow; Fan Fluid faucet: Sustainable Solutions International; wall panels: Dune, modularArts
Tile: Stagger glass in Icelandic Blue, AKDO
“Because they were walking through the bathroom to get to the bedroom, I wanted the bathtub to feel like a piece of furniture and not a bathroom fixture,” Kripke says. The designer enlisted an old friend, Cape Cod boatbuilder Peter Eastman of Howard Boats, to craft a custom wooden bathtub. “I figured if he knew how to keep the water out, he could figure out how to keep water in,” she says.
love this door
The wall-mounted toilet saved vital space in the compact bathroom. The silver wall panel comes off so Dushan can pull out the “guts” to replace any parts when needed.
Radiant-heat floors. Many homeowners forgo furnaces here in San Francisco, where the weather is normally quite mild. However, it still gets chilly enough by the bay to warrant a way to heat up a space, especially on winter mornings. Radiant-heat floors are the perfect solution. They aren’t cheap to install but they can be a cost- and energy-efficient way to heat your bathroom in the long run, especially if you install the hydronic variety.
Wall-mounted toilet. I know, I know; these have a tendency to look rather institutional, but wall-mounted toilets take up less floor space and are so much easier to clean around than standard floor-mounted toilets. You will need an access panel to a room next to or behind the toilet, so you can get to the plumbing if needed, which means, as with the curbless shower, a wall-mounted toilet can be tricky to add during a renovation. I should point out that this beautiful bathroom is anything but institutional looking, thanks to the use of natural materials — the wood and river rock.
like this style of tub
whether your bathroom storage woes are centered around safety or convenience, you may like to reconsider regular doors in favor of ones that lift or slide up, like the lift-up mirrored panel pictured here. Some pull-up door systems are also semiautomatic for added functionality and user-friendly appeal.
The river stone tile in this bathroom adds a beautiful natural texture, as does the teak shelf. After going through several layout options, designer Mary Jo Fiorella decided, “It’s OK for the tub to get wet.” This layout allowed for a larger shower space in a relatively modest-size bathroom. This room also incorporates trend No. 5, clever water control. The couple who lives here has young children, and the second handheld faucet makes giving them a shower a breeze.
includes a roll-in shower. Ipe decking covers the floor, and tile from Daltile covers one wall.
like the mirrors
love the open shower!
love this shower!
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