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floor detail of gray marble bathroom

Gray Marble Bathroom

by on January 25, 2011 in Traditional Bath

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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Jan Steen painting, The Morning Toilette 2, ca 1665

Marble Pattern Floors

by on January 4, 2011 in Traditional Bath

Bathrooms evolve but black-and-white marble pattern floors endure. Next time we talk about change in the way we live at home think about this: checkerboard floors have been used continually now for four hundred years. While bathrooms have evolved, the black-and-white checkerboard floors in honed or polished marble endures, even in a bath as countrified [...]

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white bathroom by Jeffrey Bilhuber with freestanding glass shower

Calacatta Marble Shower

by on November 14, 2010 in Traditional Bath

A popular stone for kitchens is just as beautiful in the bathroom For this serene white-on-white  master bath with rusticated walls, top NY designer Jeffrey Bilhuber took advantage of the painterly quality of the marble by using it for the back wall of the large shower with a glass enclosure on three sides. It is [...]

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NYC penthouse bahtroom with floor and walls of Pewabic tile

Tile Masterpiece Bathroom

by on December 15, 2009 in Traditional Bath

Arts and Crafts style tiles create a NYC penthouse retreat Christmas green, white and pewter comprise the stunning color scheme in this lavishly tiled New York penthouse bath.  With a pair of doors opening onto a terrace overlooking Central Park, it’s hard to imagine a bathroom as movie-set-worthy. But when would you say it was [...]

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handpainted mexican talavera sinks

Talavera Sinks

by on June 29, 2009 in Traditional Bath

A colorful basin will enhance an often overlooked space Warning: This post contains color-saturated images that may dramatically change your “neutral only”‘ way of decorating! Similar to Majolica, hand-painted Mexican Talavera pottery is seeped in history.  Named for the Spanish village of Talavera de la Reina, these handicrafts are most commonly found in tile and [...]

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