10 Favorites: White Bathrooms from the Remodelista Designer Directory
Here are 10 favorite bathrooms from members of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory—some modern, some in cottage style, all demonstrating the versatility of white. Above: In this Brooklyn townhouse bathroom renovation, architects Fernlund + Logan used white milk glass tile from Urban Archaeology and a showerhead from Grohe. Find all the hardware details in Design Sleuth: D-Line Hardware from Denmark. Above: Australia-born, New York–based...
5 Favorites: Waldorf-Worthy Bath Toys for Babies
Now that my children are a bit older, I miss the days when I needed to stand by while they took a bath. I don’t miss the mountains of bath toys, though; here’s a selection of bath toys that have stood the test of time. Above: Winner of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Design Award in 1970, Patrick Ryland’s bird and...
Best Professional Bath: Modern Farmhouse Master Bathroom by Megan Bachmann Interiors
The winner of the 2018 Remodelista Considered Design Awards Best Professional Bath is Megan Bachmann Interiors for her Modern Farmhouse Master Bathroom project in Campbell, California. The project was chosen as a finalist by guest judge Stephen Alesch, who said: “The carpet is such a unique touch in this bathroom—as well as the shiplap around the tub. It’s breaking rules, but in...
Elevating the Everyday: At Home with Sanne Hop and Family in the Netherlands
Last June when Sanne Hop and her family of six moved from their apartment in a historic building in Amsterdam to a just-built house in the suburbs, I was one of the 94,700 people avidly following along. Since then, we’ve been there to experience—via Instagram (@sanne hop)—life with a toddler (when will three-year-old Kaatje agree to decamp from her parents’ bed?),...
Before/After: A Perfectionist’s $1,000 Bathroom Overhaul in Brooklyn
For the past few months, Athena Calderone, an interior designer, stylist, chef, and author of Eye Swoon, has been camping out in a small apartment in her Brooklyn brownstone while it’s under renovation. “When I temporarily moved into a vacant apartment in my just-purchased brownstone, the existing bathroom was in bad shape, with a scuzzy, powder-blue stained tub,” she says. “I know I sound like...
10 Easy Pieces: Colorful Bathroom Sinks
For a dose of color in the bath: A selection of characterful basins set the tone for a particular palette or stand out in contrast. Here are our 10 most favorite colorful bathroom sinks. Above: Azzurra Ceramica Forma Wash Basins are made using a special spraying technique to achieve the saturated color seen here. Available in a wide range of...
A Midcentury-Style 1980s House: The Takatina Take on an Upstate Hideaway
Ten years ago, when we first met Takaaki and Christina Kawabata, they had just fled Brooklyn with their two young kids to live in an entirely open-plan cabin in upstate New York. The couple—he’s an architect, she’s an interior designer—transformed their modest 1960s retreat into a Japanese-style, minimalist farmhouse: see The New Pioneers: A One-Room Family House. The four continue...
Domestic Science: 10 Natural Cleaning Solutions for the Bathroom
Keeping things generally picked up and uncluttered doesn’t have quite the same impact in the bathroom as it does in other living spaces. Bathrooms require real elbow grease. But the feeling of bleach against skin and the lingering scent of chemical cleansers is not a requisite for porcelain and tile sparkle. We like mixing our own cleaning solutions, but when...
A Madcap Apartment in Paris for a Creative Couple (Plus Kids)
How many patterned tiles is too many? Anki Linde and Pierre Saalburg of Paris-based LSL Architects say to each his own limit—and that the couple who own this rambling Paris apartment happen to have a higher threshold than most. These clients—she’s a film director/writer, he’s a writer, and they have two kids—approached the remodel of their Paris quarters with a...
Powder Room: 11 Favorite Pink-Hued Bathrooms, Modern Edition
Recently on our radar: bathrooms with a dose of pink that feel clean-lined and new, not girly. Here are a few of our favorites, pale pink tiles and peach-hued paint included. Above: Australian designer Dan Gayfer outfitted a family bath in pale pink tiles, light wood, and glossy black fixtures. Photograph by Dean Bradley. Above: The tiled shower in the same...