Designer Beach Towels
Planning a late summer escape? Whether you're a pool or beach person, we suspect that your style travels with you from home to escape destination. Even if you're staying in Chicago and biking over to ...
Planning a late summer escape? Whether you're a pool or beach person, we suspect that your style travels with you from home to escape destination. Even if you're staying in Chicago and biking over to ...
Earlier this year we posted about Al Bar Wilmette Platers, and we just heard from them about a recently completed medicine cabinet fabrication here in Chicago. Look how classy! The cabinets with mirro...
Ellen emailed us with a good question: Recently, I bought a bamboo bathmat at CB2. I have been really happy with it, but am curious as to how I should clean it. On the website, it says to wipe it cl...
Storage options for the bathroom (read: smallest room in the house) are endless and can really get those creative juices going. We've seen IKEA kitchen items and outdoor furniture used in bathrooms, a...
Known for its stationery and card selection, All She Wrote is also a monogramming megaland. For the monogramming novice, the store offers suggestions and tips for getting things just right. Did you kn...
If you're looking for a way to bring some color and pattern into your bathroom, don't discount beach towels. Folded in a stack of color-coordinated patterns, they can bring some casual hippie-chic s...
Toilet signs and images will always be a fascinating part of public life. We found this group of 59 toilet signs from around the world, and wonder if any of these would complete your at-home bathroom...
Not ones to keep a scale at home, we are guessing that a lot of people do. If our hunch is right, we're wondering what the top choice is: digital or analog?...
Oval silhouette hooks, $12 Although we've never bought anything for our bathroom at Urban Outfitters, the store came to mind when thinking about those quirky touches that sometimes fit right at home i...
MonogramAvailable online or in-store at Atom in St. Louis, these fab graphic shower curtains are just one colorful, bold line among the stock at this shop. Our favorite: the coral and white "monogram"...
We didn't know there was a way to fold a towel "properly", but, of course, why wouldn't there be? First take a guess on which is the "right" way to do it and then jump below to see if you'd get a gold...
We can only handle Target for home stuff in small and occasional doses. This bamboo bath set was a surprising find, but we think we'd prefer it without all those holes...or the trash can independent o...
This design is a great new spin on the more traditional look of monogramming. We love 'em, they come in 11 colors and are made of organic cotton. ...
Janel's post on Mrs. Meyers' booth at the 2008 Home and Housewares Show reminded us of our love for kitchen linens. We're suckers for patterned dish towels, which we like to use as guest cloths in t...
Bath linens are dressing up over at Restoration Hardware. Our favorite look is the Bedford Jacquard collection (above). They look so velvety-soft and the colors are perfect for spring. Unfussy embr...
As the smallest room in the house, the bathroom requires some special thought - especially if you lack linen closets, cabinet space for all your products, etc. Tiny Living focuses specifically on the ...
#1: Bathroom from the Glass Block shopGreen is a fantastic, calming color for any room in the house. For bathrooms, we searched a wide range of hues and styles, and wonder which reigns the supreme gre...
Well known for classic Scandinavian Modern fabrics, Marimekko also has its hand in bathroom decor. Besides their towels, robes, and soft products, we think the brightly colored trays are a fun way t...
UK Home Ideas
Reaching all the way back to 2005 (through '07), we found these varied small bath designs/ideas, shown at UK Home Ideas site, have design solutions/themes that still ring true for the spatially challe...
We spotted this image of a Berkus-designed bathroom on the blog 1912 Bunglow... ...
ReadyMade #33 - The Organize Everything Issue
The current issue of ReadyMade (#33) includes a spread titled "Basin Basics: Five easy ways to freshen up your bathroom." The tips from this issue can't be found online but include the following: ...
Taking cue from our black and white bathroom (the one where the too-short patterned curtains drove you all crazy, but you loved the silhouettes on the wall), Kiel sent in some pics of his b&w water cl...
Finland, Couple with a BabyBathrooms from apartments around the world - when you jump below and check them out, you see that they are wildly varied: some are messy, some organized, some older, some ne...
Bold Red Bathroom ...
Balance scale - baroque, $118We might just enjoy bathroom stuff more than anything else. It's the room we feel most entitled to do small updates to regularly. Out with the old bathmats, in with the ne...