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Chandeliers in the Bathrooom

Chandeliers can add a touch of class and sparkle to any room. And who wouldn't like a bit of elegance in the water closet? Actually, chandeliers fit with any style from modern mansions to industrial...

Farmhouse Chic: Rugged & Elegant Inspiration

The words themselves are not a natural fit. Farmhouse being a rugged, rustic, utilitarian term. Chic being elegant, stylish and fashionable. But somehow when combined it's a match made in design hea...

Latis Bathroom Collection from Omvivo

Today's post was going to be a Before & After of a re-caulked bathroom. Unfortunately I found extensive black mold. So stay tuned for the trial and errors of renovating a bathroom in a New York ...

Hot or Not? Gothic Faucet Handles by Stephen Einhorn

This faucet design by Stephen Einhorn is perfect for Halloween, but would you want it in your home all year round? Shown here is a version in polished chrome with Swarovski Crystal Eyes -- red for ho...

Working With Plaster Ornamentation?
Good Questions

Q: What goes here? I am renting a lovely apartment with my husband in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The walls have a lot of plaster garland (I think that's what it's called) which I think is charming, but ...

A Murray Hill Apartment by Ron Marvin

We've spotted previous Small Cool contestant Ron Marvin's own studio apartment and just last week Aaron shared a New York Times feature on Marvin's work in photographer Andrea Sperling's apartment. ...

Inspiration: Dude Design

Dude design, otherwise known as the man cave. What makes a home decidedly manly? Nothing per se. It certainly doesn’t make you more of a man to choose one design aesthetic over another, but there ...

Hot or Not? Multicolor Bathroom Faucet by Savil

We've seen some wild color uses so far this Apartment Therapy COLOR month. Is a bathroom faucet a place you'd think to add color? Italian company Savil design came out with this new "V-Color" fauc...

Tess's 'Fresh Cut Greens' Bathroom
Room for Color - East #18

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Tess Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Type of Home: single family home Color Inspiration: I'm a girl who loves a good bubble bath, and not...

Red Accents & Accessories for the Home
Roundup

It’s Color Month here at Apartment Therapy, so here are 10 red home goods that can make any room pop. What does red décor say about you? Red is the center of attention — it screams â€...

Bright Color Tile in Bathrooms

To start off our celebration of COLOR this month, I've rounded up some photos of colorful bathrooms. To narrow it down, I didn't just choose bathrooms with painted walls but bathrooms where the tile...

Update Our Bathroom Around This Corner Tub?
Good Questions

Q: I have a 1950's blue corner tub. The contractor we consulted told us, in a sense, that the house was built around the tub and that we would literally have to take our house apart to move it. Since ...

5 Bathrooms with Subway Tile

When I first heard of "subway tiles" I thought it was an exclusive term reserved for the social elite designers of New York — now I know better. ...

The Colors, Patterns & Textures of Imabari Towels
Best Products

I have never been obsessed with a bath towel before — sure, I've admired a few and I even bought some small Missoni towels for a gift last year — but I was blown away by the quality and ...

Hell’s Kitchen Studio Makeover: Part 2 – Damp Bathroom
Guest Post from Danny Seo

When you find a very reasonably priced studio apartment in Manhattan, two things come to mind: it’s either rent-controlled and you’ve struck gold or there’s something wrong with it. While this...

Roundup: Painted Tubs

I live in a rental blessed with a baby blue fiberglass bathtub. It matches the baby blue sink and baby blue toilet and the combination makes the bathroom feel less than Smurfy. So here’s a look at...

Concrete Walls: Cold or Inviting?

Walls and what to do with them — you can paint, wallpaper, stencil or cover them with hundreds of slices of Kraft Singles. But when a home is blessed with exposed cement or concrete, why not j...

What to do with Built-in Soap Dishes?

Most older rentals have them. Those knobby little built-in soap and toothbrush holders. There but to hold a sliver of melting Ivory....

Ideas for Bathroom Renovation?
Good Questions

Q: I was wondering if your readers could help us remodel our bathroom. The previous homeowners seem to have installed everything that happened to be on sale one weekend at Home Depot: Dark-stained wai...

10 Amazing Rooms
well-plaid

well-plaid seems to be the connoisseur of all things classic, masculine and cool. The site features everything from clothing to music to vintage inspiration. But for us home lovers, the best part ha...

Dream Storage & Attainable Alternatives

These storage designs by London's John Minshaw are over-the-top custom, undoubtedly with equally over-the-top price tags. There are built-in dressing room shoe shelves with lighting for each pair, a...

Experimental Use of Two Common Materials

Tokyo residence, Y-House, by Frank la Rivière Architects is not by any means a typical house. We're liking two rooms in particular for their unusual use of two everyday materials. First up is one o...

Roundup: Educational Shower Curtains

Never mind singing, how about studying in the shower? With various subjects and even languages to choose from, your bathroom could turn into a study hall. You can keep your vocabulary fresh, your kno...

How To Hack a Showerhead That Is Too Low?
Good Questions

Q: We desperately need your help. We just moved into a beautiful apartment with a clawfoot tub. The showerhead looks like the picture above. My boyfriend is 6'5 and the shower head is not tall enough...

Flickr Find: Bathroom at Ye Olde Carlton Arms

This small bathroom is really a jolt of visuals: those bright red walls are one thing. The built-in curio cabinet housing odds and ends is another......

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