Barn-style sliding doors offer space-saving solutions in any room.
Mention barn doors to anyone not devoted to interior design and they will assume you are speaking of doors on real barns.  Mounted on hardware placed outside the door frame, the sliding indoor versions offer a decorative and functional alternative to standard swing and pocket doors.     .
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In a beach house, it makes sense to rely on tropical wood planking that stands up well to water. In this Mr.-and-Mrs. master bath, the planks take on the added role of motif worked in three ways – like fencing to create a semi-open shower, like horizontal paneling on walls and then as slats on [...]

There’s something so elemental about an outdoor shower it can make almost any bathroom look overdone. A water source, a rain shower head, a drain and wind shield are the basics — sited for an unobstructed ocean view. Exotic wood planking and natural stones have an innate elegance, perfect for a beach house installation. [...]

Powder rooms tend to get their style from the basic fixtures. The cast concrete sink with sloping side and modernist wall-mounted faucet make the basic statement. A narrow mirror (no wider than the faucets) and tube sconces reinforce it. Yet, look closely at the wall and you can make out painted country-style planking –a twist [...]

We never thought we’d swoon over a kitchen with wood-tone cabinets, lavender tile and blue-violet counters. But this is one knockout babe, done up in summer florals that read from cobalt to lavender – a nod to the range of color found in hydrangeas. The 4 x 4 variegated tile range guard behind the Viking [...]

The heart of this kitchen is the seafoam blue large island-on-legs with two different counter tops. Islands such as this maximize the look of the central space but tend to sacrifice storage. The small prep sink is set under a slab of marble while wood covers the remainder of the work and serving surface — [...]

Both white and pale blue cabinets are paired with green marble counters in this Chappaquiddick beach house. The counter-to -soffit tongue and groove backsplash is installed horizontally and provides a vividly painted background for pottery collections displayed in and above open-back cabinets. Note the curved valance plucked from a hutch to make the [...]

Modern metal cabinets have clean lines and swank details in additional to an unusual retro color scheme of stone gray and maroon played out on the adjoining wall. Casement windows and ceiling beams — each painted gray — soften the hard edges to make this feel a little bit like the country, but on fast-forward. [...]

It is light, bright and informal, yet packed with special features — a good kitchen for entertaining. Three different wood hues are worked into base cabinets on the range wall, which is topped with black stone. Drawers open with hand-pulls below the cook top and there is open shelving above and on each side to [...]

The four square motif typical of Mission appears on oak cabinet doors and panels in this mostly monochrome kitchen. Awning windows, industrial pendant lights, an English-style work table/island with turned legs and tiles set into the apron help mix it up and avoid a strictly period look. Perimeter cabinets turn right past the awning windows [...]

The most interesting feature centers on the small white farm sink installed in the corner (there’s a close up in the Sink Gallery). It’s an unusual positioning and given emphasis by the placement of shelving over two walls of windows — making dishes and pottery look like greenhouse plants. Light-hued wood cabinets, with see-through door [...]

Windows set high in the soaring space let wonderful natural light into this galley kitchen. Between the windows a vertical swatch of natural stone hints at a chimney. Exposed timbers set off the wood of the Mission-style oak cabinets. A clever grid provides areas of solid wood from which pendant lighting can be hung. Another [...]