“The throne room”, the “restroom”, a”powder room”, the “Privy” or the “washroom”, “Lavatory”, and “Comfort station”, are all names to describe the same room….the bathroom. Most of us spend more time in there than we care to admit. It is usually one of the last rooms decorated.
During the latest local recession, several of my clients who had thought about selling their home, and getting a bigger house decided to stay put and just redo the one in which they now lived. When first starting to work with a designer, it seems that most people start in the rooms they spend the most time with….for entertaining. After working with me for a while, those rooms are “finished” (well, let’s face it, they are never really finished….there is always something that can be done) and around the time we start thinking about working on the master bath or master bedroom the client moves, and we start all over.
Now personally, while I love creating beautiful rooms in all parts of the home, I think we should work on some of the ones that we spend the most time in…the bathroom.
For this particular bath, we kept the footprint of the room in tack, keeping the original white cabinets, but adding extra drawer space in the knee-hole. Then we painted the cabinets to tie in the extra cabinets. The tile was replaced and the shower redone with a seamless glass door. You can’t tell by looking quickly but we were able to add-on a few inches in the shower by bumping out the door a bit. Quick change of the tile to a mix of a beautiful field tile and contemporary glass block and VOILA!