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floating vanity mounted over an oversized wood framed mirror by Julie Charbonneau

Floating Vanity Oversized Mirror

Feminine  vanity  meets  masculine  mirror,  and  we all  fall  in  love. Almost every designer has a signature feature they like to use, but Montreal’s Julie Charbonneau combines two – a floating vanity and an oversized mirror.  The double vanity is cantilevered within the custom framed mirror, which reaches from the crown down to the baseboard.  [...]

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guest black with black high gloss beadboard wainscoting and mirrored walls

Black Beadboard Guest Bath

A lacquer look gives popular wall paneling fresh sophistication. We’ve seen a lot of bead board wainscoting in bathrooms because it adds a defining architectural element to walls at a moderate price. Usually it’s painted white or ivory and sometimes gray or green. But ebonized bead board – painted high-gloss black – kicks it several [...]

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black and white hexagon tile shower hidden in a closet by architect L Craig Roberts

Guest Bath In Disguise

Double doors conceal a shower, making this full bath appear to be a powder room. Some ideas are sheer genius, and in this case the idea was the brainchild of Alabama architect Craig Roberts.  In the planning stages of our Stone Cottage, we altered the floor plan so that the main level guest bathroom would [...]

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calacatta marble bathroom with wood floor inset with marble mosaic bath mat

Marble Bathroom Floors

An intricate marble floor is like an integral carpet for the bathroom. Today’s marble bathrooms lean on neutrals rather than flamboyant colors often seen in the past.  When it comes to floors, white and gray – common stone coloring — has become a bathroom basic and designer favorite as it is particularly compatible with white-metal [...]

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floor detail of gray marble bathroom

Gray Marble Bathroom

A renovation with simple details yields fabulous results When a friend of ours redid her narrow, turn-of-the-century NYC apartment bathroom, she opted for simplicity with a kiss of glitz. Honed gray marble tiles in four sizes allowed Country Floors to plan subways for the wainscot, mosaic for floors, and tiny ½-inch tesserae for borders to [...]

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