Katie Merkle
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This 75 sq.ft guest bathroom in Long Beach, CA is a study in elegant restraint and textural sophistication. Completed in 2025 by HENNE Creative, the design pairs tactile materials like hammered glass, honed stone, and matte black metal to achieve a balanced interplay between contrast and clarity. The floating toilet, concealed fixtures, and sculptural lighting enhance spatial purity, while the delicately rippled glass divider introduces a subtle artistic tension. This compact space exemplifies how form and function can merge to create a bathroom that feels both intimate and elevated.

This 75 sq.ft guest bathroom in Long Beach, CA is a study in elegant restraint and textural sophistication. Completed in 2025 by HENNE Creative, the design pairs tactile materials like hammered glass, honed stone, and matte black metal to achieve a balanced interplay between contrast and clarity. The floating toilet, concealed fixtures, and sculptural lighting enhance spatial purity, while the delicately rippled glass divider introduces a subtle artistic tension. This compact space exemplifies how form and function can merge to create a bathroom that feels both intimate and elevated.

This 75 sq.ft guest bathroom in Long Beach, CA is a study in elegant restraint and textural sophistication. Completed in 2025 by HENNE Creative, the design pairs tactile materials like hammered glass, honed stone, and matte black metal to achieve a balanced interplay between contrast and clarity. The floating toilet, concealed fixtures, and sculptural lighting enhance spatial purity, while the delicately rippled glass divider introduces a subtle artistic tension. This compact space exemplifies how form and function can merge to create a bathroom that feels both intimate and elevated.

This 75 sq.ft guest bathroom in Long Beach, CA is a study in elegant restraint and textural sophistication. Completed in 2025 by HENNE Creative, the design pairs tactile materials like hammered glass, honed stone, and matte black metal to achieve a balanced interplay between contrast and clarity. The floating toilet, concealed fixtures, and sculptural lighting enhance spatial purity, while the delicately rippled glass divider introduces a subtle artistic tension. This compact space exemplifies how form and function can merge to create a bathroom that feels both intimate and elevated.

This 75 sq.ft guest bathroom in Long Beach, CA is a study in elegant restraint and textural sophistication. Completed in 2025 by HENNE Creative, the design pairs tactile materials like hammered glass, honed stone, and matte black metal to achieve a balanced interplay between contrast and clarity. The floating toilet, concealed fixtures, and sculptural lighting enhance spatial purity, while the delicately rippled glass divider introduces a subtle artistic tension. This compact space exemplifies how form and function can merge to create a bathroom that feels both intimate and elevated.

The only original item left in the main level bath is the cast iron tub which was re-surfaced. A traditional penny tile pattern was designed in a sophisticated gray and white color palette on both the floor and shower ceiling. Subway tile on the walls with a gray pencil trim continues the traditional theme. The simple color palette allows for changeable accent colors. Here, we chose a yellow and white stripped shower curtain and hand towels to introduce energy and interest. Eric & Chelsea Eul Photogrpahy

Our designer has achieved a stylish look by combining dark cabinets and light-colored marbles.

Bold, dramatic and singular home with a relaxed yet sophisticated interior. Minimal but not austere. Subtle but impactful. Mix of California and Colorado influences in a Minnesota foundation. Builder - John Kraemer & Sons / Architect - Sharratt Design Company / Troy Thies - Project Photographer

An oversized contemporary branch-inspired light fixture creates a dramatic focal point, offering a striking contrast to the traditional copper-painted ceiling. This unexpected pairing of modern sculptural lighting and classic architectural detailing introduces visual tension and sophisticated balance, demonstrating how thoughtfully layered design styles can elevate a luxury interior. Because darker, richly saturated spaces require exceptional illumination, the multi-light fixture provides abundant ambient lighting while preserving the room's intimate atmosphere. A dimmable lighting system allows the brightness to be adjusted effortlessly, transitioning from brilliant task lighting to a soft, warm glow for a refined, mood-enhancing experience. The result is a beautifully illuminated jewel-box interior where bold design, architectural character, and functional luxury coexist seamlessly.

A monumental expression of chromatic intensity and geological time. Precision-cut as a single solid block (31.5"x19.5"x10"), this wall-mount basin presents a fluted front profile that introduces rhythmic vertical relief against its massive geometric volume. The deep burgundy and violet veining of the polished Calacatta Viola marble creates a striking tension between shadow and reflective surface. Engineered with a solid deck for wall-mount faucet configurations, its floating installation heightens the visual weight of the form, making it the definitive focal point of any minimalist or dark-toned interior. For current availability, structural specifications, and direct ordering of this monolithic block sink, visit our LUCE SPACES official website

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This downtown Toronto backyard has been transformed into a delightful outdoor retreat. This 10 x 24 ft custom concrete pool has added new life into this home. The pool is a source of fun, relaxation and exercise. Special swim jets have been added to the deep end for swim-in-place exercise. The pool interior is finished with PebbleTec glass mosaic tile and a Beadcrete surface in Laguna. Stunning. McNeill Photography

**I. Spatial Composition & Architectural Volume** This is a pre-war Manhattan dining room whose proportions have been surgically clarified rather than reinvented. The room reads as a compressed rectilinear volume, its ceiling plane articulated by a shallow dropped soffit and a single exposed transverse beam — a candid acknowledgment of the building's structural grid, left legible rather than concealed behind a coved plaster surround. That beam performs a quiet spatial function: it registers the threshold between the dining zone and the adjoining passage at right, where a sliver of herringbone parquet and a second curtained aperture extend the sightline into a further room, relieving the enclosure and establishing a discreet enfilade. The composition is emphatically axial and symmetrical — chandelier, floral centerpiece, pedestal table and central window mullion align on a single spine — yet the symmetry is deliberately imperfect: the flanking chairs are turned inward on the diagonal, the sideboard weights the left wall, and the artwork on the right hangs off-axis. The result is a Beaux-Arts discipline softened by a decorator's asymmetry. Most consequential is the pelmet, a deep upholstered box valance carried nearly wall-to-wall, which annexes the window into a single monumental glazed field and visually raises the ceiling by drawing the eye above the actual head height of the sash. **II. Materiality, Color & Texture** The palette is a study in monochromatic warmth held within a narrow tonal band of buff, oatmeal, flax and champagne, with saturation kept deliberately low so that texture carries the burden of variety. Underfoot, a wall-to-wall seagrass or sisal matting with a coarse basketweave provides the room's tactile bass note — hard-wearing, faintly agricultural, and set in productive tension with the refined silk-and-linen sheen of the curtains and pelmet. The chairs are a masterstroke of dual upholstery: matte sand-toned fabric on the outside back and a subtle self-striped ottoman weave on the seat and inner face, a device that renders the seating both plush and graphic. Against this envelope of pale neutrals, two dark accents supply the necessary chromatic gravity: the deeply carved, pierced-apron rosewood or mahogany center table, almost Anglo-Indian in its fretwork and baluster pedestal, and the ebonized klismos-splayed chair legs that echo it. The left wall introduces a painted, dry-brushed Gustavian-style commode with lozenge-fretwork doors, its chalky grey-green a cool counterpoint, while gilt frames, a burnished picture light and the silvered chandelier thread a metallic warmth through the whole. **III. Lighting, Atmosphere & Style Profile** Daylight is the room's primary illuminant and it is handled with restraint: the curtains are dressed open but the roman-like sheer inner treatment diffuses the light into a milky, north-facing wash that flattens shadow and flatters the neutral surfaces. Artificial lighting is layered and entirely decorative in expression — the tall, attenuated candle-arm chandelier, hung low and generously scaled, functions as sculpture and as the room's compositional keystone, while two swing-arm brass picture lights provide directional accents that anchor the art as evening focal points. There is no visible downlighting or recessed apparatus; the mood is candlelit, hushed and faintly nocturnal even in daytime. Stylistically the room resolves into what might be termed **Refined Neutral Traditionalism** — an American-classical, Bilhuber-adjacent idiom that marries eighteenth-century Swedish and Anglo-colonial furniture archetypes with contemporary tailoring, tonal upholstery and humble natural-fiber flooring. Its sophistication lies precisely in that calibration: heirloom silhouettes stripped of pattern and color noise, so that carving, weave and gilding become the sole ornamental language.

We used: Custom cherry cabinetry in Arts & Crafts Shaker style by Kabinart in Boulder and Espresso stains. Liberty Hardware Venetian bronze 1-1/2" cabinet knobs. KitchenAid Architect II Series 22 CF counter-depth French door refrigerator. KitchenAid Architect Series II 27" convection single wall oven. KitchenAid 36" 6-burner dual fuel freestanding commercial-style range. KitchenAid Architect II Series 24" dishwasher. Sharp Insight Pro Series 24" built-in microwave drawer (Model #KB6524PS). Crystorama Solaris 12" wide pendant lights in English bronze. Granite countertops in Brown Fantasy. 3"x6" polished marble backsplash. Paint colors: Walls: Glidden Silver Cloud 30YY 63/024 Ceilings/Trims/Doors: Glidden Swan White GLC23 Robert B. Narod Photography

Gorgeous master bath with dramatic retro "wave" tile. Peak Photography
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