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Posts tagged “Bathroom”

Recyclable Bathroom Decor
Ty D.I.Y. Recyclable Shower Curtain

Unique artistry and sustainable, environmentally friendly design collide in the essential yet unglamorous world of shower curtains. You may think that creativity stops at the bathroom door but this s...

Entertaining Detail: Candle in the Bathroom

When you're entertaining over the coming month, one easy little detail to keep in mind is lighting a candle in the bathroom....

Bathtubs and Bathrooms Worthy of a Calgon Moment

I've been known to beg Calgon to take me away on occasion (certain months more than others), but somehow my cramped bathroom and uncomfortable bathtub never seem to do the trick. In honor of those t...

Ceramic Bowls As Sinks

We spotted these painted ceramic bowls as vessel sinks at the Story Hotel in Stockholm and thought it was a simple yet brilliant idea. ...

Going Vertical with Subway Tile

Before rats and graffiti became a hallmark of the New York subway experience, there was subway tile. First used in the early 1900s, this brick-shaped ceramic has remained due to its resilience, class...

Unfortunate Trend: Half-Wall Bath Screens

I've stayed in several hotels lately that no longer use shower curtains in their bathrooms, but instead, have rotating sheets of glass to enclose the mere three feet of space closest to the showerhe...

Open Shelving in a Bathroom for Your Collections

We posted about open shelving in bathrooms previously on Apartment Therapy, but we love the idea of using the shelves to enhance the decor. We absolutely adore the aquatic themed bathroom in the first...

Small & Pretty Powder Room by Marsh & Clark

Featured in May's San Francisco Decorator Showcase house, this powder room is a little gem. Attention to design and craftsmanship is lavished upon every last detail. It all started with the floor......

3 Blind Mice by JAS Design-Build

There are so many great details in this home renovation by Seattle-based JAS Design-Build. The project, called 3 Blind Mice, employs salvaged materials and inventive use of space to create an up-to-...

Chalkboard Doors as Art

We have seen many creative ways on how to use chalk paint to decorate your house, but we really like the idea of the chalkboard painted doors and used as art. The scale of this piece is what makes the...

Mismatched Vanity Mirrors

If you don't want to shell out the cash for a custom-sized bathroom mirror, why not take a page from Australian design firm Black & Spiro and use a mismatched pair above your sinks instead?...

Do You Coordinate Your Bed and Bath?

Retailers often lump bed and bath together when categorizing their goods, with some collections encompassing enough items to allow you to have identical patterns or textiles in both your bedroom and b...

Before & After: Guest Bathroom Makeover

When we saw the before picture of this guest bathroom, it made us look back at the post that we did about our friend's outdated bathroom in a rental apartment. Our readers had many great ideas of what...

Pamela's Creative Bath Remodel

Once again, we are totally blown away by an Apartment Therapy reader's work on their home. Pamela added a link to her guest bathroom in the comments on this post about stenciled walls, and we quickly ...

Before & After: Powder Room Transformation

Anastasia Faiella of Faiella Design shared with us a few photos of her powder room transformation that she did for the SF Decorator Showcase house this year. We posted about her work previously on Apa...

Inspiration: Dark Interiors

A room painted dark can be overwhelming. We tend to gravitate towards lighter color choices for our walls, but there is something incredibly appealing about the dark interiors beautifully photographed...

Look! Shower and Container Garden in One

It doesn't take a huge stretch of the imagination to consider that rooms designed to get humans clean can be mutually beneficial to plants — the right plants in a steamy, well-lit bathroom do very...

Soap Screen at Met Home's Modern by Design House

Here's one way to make sure you'll always have soap on hand! This installation in the master suite bathroom of Metropolitan Home's Modern by Design show house had us smiling with its fanciful use of b...

Before & After: $1,000 Bathroom Makeover

BeforeThis bathroom makeover from Country Living immediately caught our eye for its inventive use of materials (corrugated metal) and completely transformative results......

Flickr Finds: A Simple, Bright Bathroom

It's probably just us, but we might get a little freaked out by a bathroom with two large windows in it, for privacy reasons (we know, curtains, shades, but still). But the upside is a spot to get r...

Before and After: Darby's Bathroom Makeunder

Darby's bathroom before... We sympathize with Darby, whose taste in bathroom décor seems decidedly less—well, um, dramatic—than that of her new home's previous owner. When we moved into our new ...

How To... Create an Apothecary-Style Bathroom

click thumbnails for larger pics We've been obsessing over this bathroom for a while now. We think it is something about the apothecary-style classic simplicity of everything that is drawing us in. H...

DIY Dresser-Turned-Vanity
Jonathan Oxer

This DIY bathroom storage solution is so cool. It reminds us of old wash basins found in bedrooms before there were indoor bathrooms!......

Flickr Finds: Nathan's Bathroom

We pride ourselves with finding inspiration in all kinds of interiors, not just those with impossibly high design. There is a lot that is commendable about Nathan's simple apartment bathroom, which ...

Inspiration: Notebook Paper in the Kitchen and Bathroom

Blue lines on a white ground with a single red rule crossing them — most of us would recognize this as notebook paper regardless of the context. This particular homage to schoolwork, above, is li...