Wrought iron window grilles are repurposed for interiors. I’ve been intrigued by this powder room mirror since it was featured a few years ago in House Beautiful. The concept is simple – a cut to size mirror is installed on the wall and over it is placed an antique wrought iron window grille. The visual [...]
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Of course, wallpapers are style barometers. They are designed to be. Powder rooms have a lot to say about who lives in a house and what they really are thinking. That’s because they are often special occasion spaces rarely used in those critical morning hours, or designed to impress guests. So it’s logical to see [...]
Console Charm
When space is an issue in small baths – particularly powder rooms — consoles are sinks of choice. The very good reason has to do with scale, or proportional size. Consoles rest on legs rather than a cabinet, which reduces visual bulk. Even when they are as large as this hunky, 30-inch Kohler Memoirs basin, [...]
Powder Rooms Papered
One of these fresh patterns is actually a 1930s icon. Guess which one. Powder rooms and small baths are great places to use wallpapers based on motifs taken from nature. In these spaces, which are often small, repetition and fanciful imagery adds a kind of quirky charm that can be easily embellished with an extravagant [...]
Powder Room Curves
Powder rooms offer opportunities to take chances with unusual or luxurious elements. Eclectic sometimes eccentric but interesting, which is how I view these two very different powder rooms, each have a prominent curved feature. Anyone who has discussed a radius-curve cabinet with an architect or wood worker quickly learns that they are an expensive feature [...]
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