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Posts tagged “bathroom - tubs, toilets, showers & sinks”

Look: Dorado Soapstone of Texas
Austin

We admit that soapstone wasn't always in our vocabulary as an option for kitchen and bath countertops; we've only recently discovered the neat aesthetic and physical properties of this stone. We were...

Understanding High-Efficiency, Dual Flush Toilets

Since we're in San Antonio and this also happens to be bathroom and kitchen month here at AT, we thought we'd share a video clip illustrating the utility and efficiency of dual flush toilets as shown...

KÄSCH In-Floor Bathtubs Keep Luxury On the Downlow

A funny we noticed while attending last week's media event with bloggers hailing from the States and Europe: while the Europeans tended to go out and party after the media presentation events were ove...

Tile Grout Coating: Getting Grout Back to White

Photo of Merideth's bathroom floor during Tile Grout Coating application.When we first toured our current home, the one thing we loved about the bathroom was the penny-tiled floor. The previous owners...

Taking Things a Little Too Far: The Inadvertent Home Improvement Project

One of things that has always bugged me since moving into the apartment we've called home for the last few years has been the bath tub. It's a great vintage cast iron claw foot that is probably a litt...

Luxury Medicine Cabinet: Cold Storage

Our medicine cabinet is pretty simple. It holds three shelves and the door doesn't close all the way. Don't get us wrong, we love that we have a medicine cabinet that stores all of our toiletries. ...

Look: Brondell Swash Ecoseat Review

For those of you who've always been curious about adding a bidet into your bathroom, be sure to wander on over to our home tech site Unplggd to read about our recent "hands-off" review of the Brondell...

The Axolute Horizontal Integrated Siphon Eliminates the Drain Pipe

Your eyes aren't playing a trick on you, nor is the sink some imaginary Photoshopped conceptual solution. The floating metal sink above can go sans traditional plumbing thanks to a horizontal drainage...

Beijing Olympics Inspired Bathroom Sinks

Looks like 2008 Olympics mania has even creeped into the home decor market. Designer Jarvier Mariscal has designed a series of bathroom sinks for Roca, our favourite being the swimmers sink shown abov...

Found! Sweet Sink
Australia

As mention in an earlier post we’re looking to ditch our 80’s nanna inspired bathroom. Goodbye to our beigey pinkish sink and hello to... ...

A Bathtub in the Bedroom?

We've begun noticing a recent trend in having a bathtub in the bedroom. We're guessing the toilet is tucked away discreetly next to a closet or something, but we're a bit curious about whether or not...

Lemon Oil for Keeping Shower Doors Clean?

While looking into ways to clean our shower door, we came across Real Simple's take. They suggest "...After a thorough cleaning, an application of lemon oil will help serve as a shield from shower gri...

Footflush Hands-free Toilet Flush Pedal

Ignoring the form factor, this is really a great product for germaphobes who detest touching toilet handles, even their own (I worked with a young lady who had never once cleaned her own bathroom beca...

Moody Acquario: Bath Tub with Built-in Aquarium

We need a new category for products and ideas like this: astronomically priced, questionable in every regard, yet cool enough to have us wondering if we were loaded whether we'd want something so blat...

Look! Space Saving Wall Mounted Bathroom Vanity at IkeaHacker

If you have a small bathroom that needs to be remodeled on a budget, check out this modern solution from IkeaHacker by David M. [ Photo from Ikeahacker ]...

Look! Eames Toilet Seat Hack

Haha, we've thought we'd seen every sort of Eames related mod, but nothing quite as amusing as this Eames shell chair modified for comfortable bathroom lounging (although if you're sitting there too l...

Inspiration: Wallpaper Around the Tub

Saw this and immediately thought it would be a great idea for our own bathroom, since our claw foot tub was mysteriously and frustratingly encased by the previous tenants. We'd just have to be sure to...

Look! Stones In the Sink

Ann snapped up a couple photos of the sink at Ciba, an Austin restaurant whose bathroom sinks are filled with a pleasant assortment of pebbles. We've seen this a few times at other people's homes too,...

Ku Ambiance Porcelain at CA Boom 08

Ku Ambiance showed off this incredible work of porcelain (and sense of humor) and it definitely made us smile. What surprised us, though, were the incredible works of porcelain that were completely s...

LA Store: Santa Fe Wrecking Company

While looking around for places to sell/donate old toilets, bath tubs and sinks, we happened upon a Los Angeles resource for bathroom salvage items. Santa Fe Wrecking Company might be your destination...

Skip the Remodel: Embracing the Retro Bathroom

We popped by an open house happening up the street, and before the agent showed us the bathroom, she said warningly, "It needs a LOT of love...!" But the bathroom actually reminded us of Lynn and Lei...

Organize Underneath Your Vanity
Blogging... Better Homes and Garden March 2008

Here's a little inspiration for any of you doing the cure on your bathroom or if you just need a little visual motivation. Inside the March 2008 issue of Better Homes and Gardens, there's a "Get Organ...

Anthropolgie's Latest Bath Ensembles

We admit it: most of the time we go to Anthropologie to check out the store decor rather than shop. When we got the catalogue a few days ago, their latest combinations of bath decor and accessories ca...

Removing toilet ring stain with a pumice stone?

We've had a stubborn toilet ring situation that wouldn't go away. Looking into various methods of removing it, we came across several sites mentioning using a pumice stone. It sounded like a good theo...

Gilded Bathroom: Marmo Jewel Tile "Rock Star" by Salvini

If I win the lottery this year, these Marmo Jewel Tile "Rock Star" Salvini tiles might make it on my Must Have list for my master bathroom. It's a gorgeous blend of luxe contrast: split face marble c...

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