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30 Quick and Easy Bathroom Decorating Ideas

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If you’re tired of walking into your dated bathroom and dream of a change, we’ve got bathroom decorating ideas for you that are inexpensive and simple to do. The most important upgrade you can make in your bathroom involves lighting . A Swedish study found that lighting, paired with the right color, affects mood. Changing out your lighting is not difficult or expensive to do, but makes a bathroom look fresher and larger. Older lighting fixtures and fluorescent lighting cast unattractive shadows and odd color hues on your skin. If changing a fixture isn’t possible, you can upgrade the bulb with some of the new fluorescent bulbs that are similar in color warmth to the light cast on a bright, sunny day. Once you’ve upgraded the lighting quality of your bathroom, paint is the next quick and easy upgrade to the bathroom. Pick light colors for large surfaces like the walls and save the darker, richer tones for accents. Check how your color choices look in your upgraded lighting bef...

Designer Adam Lippes’ Calacatta Marble Filled Penthouse

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SELLER: Adam Lippes LOCATION: West 12 th Street, New York, NY PRICE: $5,750,000 (monthly maintenance: $2,764) SIZE: 1, 700 square feet , 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms DESCRIPTION: Traditional details were painstakingly restored to the building’s original intent. Replicas of floor-to- ceilings rolled -steel windows, specified by architects in the 60’s, are now flanked on either side by 8 floor to ceiling glass doors , accessed from every room. Featuring 2 bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms & their own private terraces ; additional powder room of calacatta vision slab marble; guest bath of pure white sculptural marble , steam shower & Boffi fixtures… YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Since Your Mama has been inundated with all kinds of ass- uglee the last couple of days–from supposedly sterile hospitals to Whitney Houston’s hot residential mess to Eddie Murphy’s mob-worthy mansion in Englewood , NJ–we thought it might be nice to look at a little real estate pretty even if the owner of the prop...

Out Of The Tub, Into The Shower

As Options Increase, Custom Showers Are Replacing Fancy Tubs In Popularity. September 8, 2002 | By Molly Millett, Saint Paul Pioneer Press Showering isn't just about getting clean anymore. Instead, it's therapy. "It's not just a shower. It's a mood enhancer," says Gary Pember, Moen's group product manager for the bath. "Where people used to go to a spa to pamper themselves, now they want to integrate those features into their own homes. It's part of looking at the whole therapeutic value to water. Today's shower does a whole lot of things for the psyche." Homeowners can now choose custom shower features that include steam units (with aromatherapy options); body sprays along the walls that make the shower feel like a "vertical whirlpool"; larger and multiple showerheads that offer settings ranging from a misting rain to a hydromassage, and some that even offer mood lighting ; shower benches and built-in storage space for sham...

House Tour: A Clever Kids' Bedroom & Bathroom Makeover

Names: Finley (4-years-old) and Jackson (5 1/2 years old) Location: Seattle, Washington Room sizes: Bathroom - 47 square feet; Finley's Room - 100 square feet; Jackson's Room -130 square feet The adorable Finley and Jackson of Finley and Jackson's "Modern Shabby-Chic" Bedrooms & Playrooms are back with new and improved big kid bedrooms and bathroom. Their mom, Emily, had been thinking about adding a bathroom to the upper level of their home for years. The house—Emily and Kai's Thoughtful and Stunning Seattle Home —came with only 1.5 bathrooms when they purchased it six years ago, and the only shower/bathtub was in the master bathroom. Now that the kids are getting older (Finley is almost 4 years old and Jackson is 5 ½) and out of diapers, it's clear that they need their own bathroom. In order to add it, both bedrooms needed a new floor plan—this is what Emily came up with! Emily and Kai's home is a little over 1600 square feet, and there is...

KBIS: Kitchen and Bath Industry Show 2009

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Bath Industry Show 2009 " title="KBIS: Kitchen and Bath Industry Show 2009 " width="510" height="250" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-19494" /> The annual Kitchen/Bath Industry Show is the largest international trade show for kitchen and bath products in the world. Here are some of the cool, innovative items that Danny and Jodi discovered at this year’s show. Kitchen Countertops Wood countertops from Grothouse Lumber Company are available in a wide variety of colors, patterns, and shapes. Solid surface countertops , such as those from Corian and Samsung, come in a wide range of colors and patterns that mimic the look of natural stone in a seamless, stain resistant material . The latest product from Thomas’ Kitchen Art is Giani granite paint , a faux painting kit that can be used to make almost any surface—including plastic laminate countertops—look like granite. Sinks Grothouse Lumber Company also had beautiful wood sinks on disp...

It's form over function at K/BIS

BY ROBERT P. MADER OF CONTRACTOR'S STAFF You're not just washing your hands or a dish, you're living a lifestyle and plumbing manufacturers are happy to help. When the home builders met in Orlando, Fla., in January, their show was all about function (April, pg. 39) . The Kitchen & Bath Industry Show , on the contrary, is all about pizzazz. While the show covers everything one will find in a kitchen or bathroom, the 60,000 designers, contractors and remodelors at this year's show in April in Chicago saw plenty of plumbing products . High-tech plumbing Kohler has entered the programmable shower market with its DTV custom showering system . Featuring the DTV Digital Interface and DTV Digital Shower Valve , the product offers customized shower experiences with multiple showerheads, hand showers and body sprays. The DTV's pre- set hydrotherapy experiences include up, down and wave massage, as well as temperature therapy that can ...

Spacious, Stylish Forest Hills Home Tops Our Dallas Open Houses Roundup

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Stylish Forest Hills Home Tops Our Dallas Open Houses Roundup | CandysDirt.com" width="640" height="426" />The Forest Hills home at  8423 Santa Clara Dr . is one of our three features open houses this week. We love bringing you an insider look at hot DFW properties with our   CandysDirt.com Open Houses of the Week column. Every Thursday, we pick three fabulous open houses in Dallas (and the ‘burbs from time to time) you shouldn’t miss. This week, our houses range in price from $539K to $1.175 million. Let’s take a look. SPACIOUS FOUR- BEDROOM FOREST HILLS HOME ON ALMOST HALF AN ACRE Stylish Forest Hills Home Tops Our Dallas Open Houses Roundup | CandysDirt.com" width="640" height="426" /> Stylish Forest Hills Home Tops Our Dallas Open Houses Roundup | CandysDirt.com" width="640" height="426" /> Stylish Forest Hills Home Tops Our Dallas Open Houses Roundup | CandysDirt.com" width="6...