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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Time For A Modern Bathroom?

3:58 PM bathrooms, furniture blog, interior design No comments

You know your bathroom needs a remodel if you have a spa-tub with jets, or if your bathroom has small, eight-sided tiles anywhere. You know your savings will decline if your toilets and showers use lots of water. When you and your mate see what Modern Bathroom offers in new eco-friendly bathroom fixtures, featuring dual-flush toilets and bidets; and when you learn that you can have low-flow showers, yet receive a high, water pressure feel through air injection, then you know you are ready for bathroom renovations that will significantly enhance daily living and quality of life for you and your entire family.

Someday, soon, we intend to rip out our bathroom linoleum flooring and have new marble floors installed. Our house was built in 1929, so you might imagine the old tub and shower system could use an upgrade. A new glass enclosure for the tub and shower would be a handsome addition. In the finished basement (lower level as we now call it), the bathroom could use new tile and a bidet. With a bidet, we could live like the French, seen on those House Hunter TV shows. While it takes money to upgrade a bathroom, most renovations are so much cheaper than the cost of a new house.

When we are ready, we will investigate Modern Bathroom, headquartered in Southern California. Originally, they only sold their Modern Bathroom fixtures, but now have added such quality brands as Wyndham Collection®, Christopher Grubb, Americh, Avanity, Bath Authority DreamLine, Cole & Co, Design Element, Fluid, Fresca, HANSA, Hansgrohe, Hydro Systems, JADO, Jason, Madeli, mr. steam, MTI, Ronbow, Stufurhome, Victoria & Albert, Vigo Industries, Virtu USA, and many more. In addition to the showrooms in the Greater Los Angeles area and the low-price guarantee, you can save even more with free shipping, when you order on line.

This sponsored post for Modern Bathroom was paid for by our friends at Modern Bathroom.

Love The Vessel Sink!

12:38 PM bathrooms, Deb Seeley, furniture blog, interior design No comments

Many bathrooms that I see in magazines or on House Hunters International feature bathrooms, either new or remodels, have an impactful image of vessel sinks. These sinks sit on the cabinet like exotic flowers catching water from a great height. In a way they hark back to the hotel room basins and water pitchers seen in so many westerns.

Our friends at VesselSinks.comhave a variety of designs ranging from glass, copper, stone and ceramic.

Glass sinks are tempered, so they are quite strong, come in many beautiful colors and you can use a common bathroom cleaner to keep them clean.
Stone sinks are porous and can stain making them a little harder to maintain
Copper products from VesselSinks.com are made in Mexico or India where there are many mines and copper artisans.
Usually white, ceramic sinks are very popular because they are very easy to maintain and don’t stain.

I spoke with Deb Seeley of Deb Seeley Designs and member of NKBA about her use of Vessel sinks in remodels and new construction. Seeley cautioned that you must coordinate the height of the vanity with the height of the vessel. Vanity heights are now 33”, if you add a 5” vessel sink, your vanity is now 38” and too high for a lot of women and children. Remodels must take the height of the vessel into consideration.

Faucets are different, also. They can be purchased with various spout heights (SH) and spout lengths (SR) and can be mounted on the vanity or on the wall.

One great thing about vessel sinks versus undermounts is the ease of changing your sink for a new color to match a change in décor.

Seeley also cautions homeowners that vessel sinks may be best in a powder room. She thinks they take up more room and they can be harder than undermounts to clean around.

Bathrooms Are Changing

12:30 PM bathrooms, furniture blog, interior design No comments

An article in Cincinnati.com about bathrooms informs us that renovations are on the rise with some surprising changes. Gone are the massive spa-tubs with jets and whirlpools. Gone are the little, smooth tiles. Gone are toilets and showers that use lots of water. What's in are doorless showers, soaking tubs, dual-flush toilets and low-flow showers with air injection that delivers that high, water pressure feel. In are big tiles and texture and color.

While walking during First Thursday, we visited Ann Sacks, which is HQ'ed in Portland. Here are two shots of the new bathroom look:

Notice the sink seems to exist without any plumbing in the top picture and in the bottom, notice the colored tiles and many of the tiles and textures available in the mirror.

Or take a look at this bathroom from Mike's article in Oregon Home:

LED Back lit shower systems

6:11 PM bathroom design, bathrooms, contemporary bathroom, contemporary designs, design trends 2011, interior designs, LED, LED back lit showers, modern contemporary design, modern living, Shower systems No comments

Modern, contemporary LED lit, Bathroom Shower Systems

Available at:

Avant Garde Home Furnishings

Hello everyone, I wanted to share with all of you this amazing list of products available on my website. These are LED lit shower heads and systems. They are absolutely amazing and look spectacular in your bathroom and feel even better when your taking a shower but for all of you out there that are romantic and like taking a shower with your loved one, the experience (trust me) can be amazing as LEd lighting illuminates your bodies in the shower and they change color as the temperature in the water varies. You can set any color you want or let it set itself by the temperature of the water coming out of the shower at the time. Blue being totally cold to red being totally hot. It can be very romantic and fun for your spouce, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc. and yourself a times... It adds a little spice to our lives and is very impressive...

Please see pictures below:

Products available at:

http:/www.shop.avantgardehomefurnishings.com/Shower-systems_c38.htm

or direct links available below as well