bathrooms
True Blue Makeover for a 1922 Bath
“Our goal was to add as many creature comforts as we could, and leave the scene looking like we hadn’t touched a thing.”
Powder Rooms & Half Baths Designed for the Bungalow Era
Today’s half-bath may be utilitarian—set near the laundry or garden and able to handle yard dirt—or it may a jewel box of fancy treatments kept affordable by the room’s diminutive size. It’s a good place to make a decorating statement.
Historic Mosaic Patterns for Serviceable Floors
Penny round, hex, or square, mosaic tile lends itself to utilitarian floors that are showpieces of pattern.
Arts & Crafts Revival Bathrooms With Character
Today’s Arts & Crafts Revival has brought us bathrooms that are “sanitary white” and also bathrooms with more warmth and decoration. Bath styles from the first third of the 20th century vary considerably: think of transitional Victorian built-ins, then white tile, and finally the intensely colored fixtures of the Art Deco period. So much choice!
The Allure of Arts & Crafts Kitchens & Baths
Cabinets, fixtures, and tile for modern interpretation: A look at revival design approaches.
Arts & Crafts Baths Two Ways
Traditional Arts & Crafts elements—wood, tile, classic fixtures—are the basis for rooms that meet modern expectations.
The Baths of the Craftsman Era
An old-fashioned bath is still the favored style, even in new construction. Here are two examples of existing bathrooms from the Arts & Crafts era.
Dazzling Tile for Art Deco Baths
Bungalow bathrooms before 1920 were of the “sanitary white” persuasion. Not so in the bathrooms built after the mid-1920s!
Bathrooms en Suite
It’s the rage in today’s construction: master bedroom and bath as a suite. Here’s how to do it—with period details—to get an expanded or an additional bathroom in your old house.
Inspired Bathrooms
It’s a rare old house where the bathrooms haven’t suffered from make-dos and ill-advised alterations over the years. You will likely have to remodel. It takes knowledge, and also imagination, to make a new bathroom look as if it belongs.