Master Bathroom
Neolith brand stone mimicking Calacatta Roma
Perch rather than bench in shower
Like the open bench seat
Steam shower - Reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, helps with allergies and improves sleep.
Linear drain
Top and face of tub
Super low profile curb and no side walls. Same for downstairs bathroom.
Long niche; glass tile
Pretty. Love the tile on the wall and floor, the wood vanities and the lighting.
The homeowners wanted to borrow views from the bedroom. Wundrow accomplished this by keeping the area over the vanity as open as possible. She found a clever solution for incorporating the necessary mirror here by mounting it on a sliding barn door track.
Tile insert drain
Spa-like with the wood and fixtures
Beautiful trim work and paint color on feature wall.
Marble tile flooring
Wrap around tub and stone deck.
In the master bathroom, Curtis added another Paris apartment touch with herringbone floors. They’re white oak that has undergone a special waterproofing process. Flooring: Mafi
Marble tiled wall. Recessed alcove for soaker tub.
Another one of the homeowner’s must-haves was a curbless shower entry. The linear shower drain is camouflaged and runs along the entrance to the shower. Between this tiling challenge
Ryder knew his client loved herringbone. But he also likes to give things a twist, so he used a double herringbone pattern on the walls. He added a waterfall shelf and small shelf in stained cypress to play off the beams and add warmth to this corner. Also adding a wood look to the room are the floors, which are actually digitally printed porcelain tile. “While my client liked herringbone, we didn’t want to overpower the space with pattern. So I used large planks of tile to mix up the scale,” he says.
Choose a toilet with a slide-off seat option. Many toilet seats now allow you to remove the plastic covers on the screws that affix the seat to the bowl and easily slide the seat off to clean this crucial spot. Most manufacturers offer this option; just read the fine print when choosing a toilet seat. This photo shows Kohler’s Quick-Release seat.
Find a toilet seat with an antimicrobial surface. This is an easy addition you can make whether you’re renovating or not. (Even this DIY disaster has successfully swapped out a toilet seat herself!) Today’s toilet seats are much more resistant to staining and fading than the old ones were. For example, American Standard’s EverClean toilet, seen here, features a permanent glaze additive that inhibits the growth of stain- and odor-causing bacteria, mold and mildew inside and out.
Pick a toilet with a skirted base. A skirted toilet has a base with a smooth profile all the way to the floor. This means none of those pipe shapes along the sides or other crevices where dust and toilet paper lint can collect. Those nooks and crannies often require some serious yoga positions just to reach them and are tough to get clean. Skirted bases make for a much easier and smoother wipe-down so you don’t have to hold your yoga position for very long.
Use a large-format tile or large porcelain slabs. The larger the tile, the less grout you have to clean. And in the case of large slabs like those you see here, no grout at all. This shower surround looks like Calacatta marble but is actually composed of thin porcelain slabs. “Thin slab porcelain does not require sealing and will retain its polished or honed finish under all types of conditions,” says the designer, Bonnie Bagley Catlin.
Glass to the wall and floor with no lips. Bench under the shower head to make the shower roomier.
A shower ledge is much more straightforward and requires a build-out of only a few inches into the shower space. Run it along the length of your shower stall and you’ve got tons of space for shower essentials. Cap it with a piece of your bathroom vanity countertop material and call it a day.
Wood vanity with thick countertop
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