Reflections

Tracie Butler Interior Design continues the bedroom suite’s design into the bathroom by using a mirrored vanity, mosaic-style mirror, and tile mosaics in the custom-designed shower. While a dark pink tufted velvet chair with lucite legs is definitely a focal point, other aspects are eye-catchers, like the vintage-style leaf-pattern wall covering.

All About the Tub

Remarkably, this house was built around a custom-designed silver travertine tub, which sits in front of a large window that offers a view of a nature preserve and breathtaking sunsets. Designed by Jolie Korek & Company, the bathroom includes a trough sink top that matches the stone tub, along with shower walls and a floating vanity wall made of Skyline’s Marble Slides polished mosaic. The étagère and vanity base are trimmed in walnut with Macassar ebony, while wood trim is stained-grey hickory. When not reflecting the owners’ images, the mirror doubles as a TV. Flooring is also Skyline marble. The modern Bari chandelier is by Hudson Valley in polished chrome.

Sea View

The aim of this design was to evoke a sense of tranquility, according to Lexis Design, who let the spectacular ocean view be a natural focal point. Clean, smooth surfaces include Pietra Gray marble with a porcelain wall inspired by ancient Japanese fields of harvested rice.

Tile Rug

For a home in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ernesto Garcia Interior Design created an exquisite floor detail designed with mosaic tiles that claims the territory of a rug with more permanence. Intended to be the most ornamental element in the room, the tile rug establishes the palette. Mosaic tile designs are repeated on walls and panels throughout the bathroom. The linen cabinet was also custom designed.

Tuscan Retreat

In the beautiful California coastal city of Carpinteria, Debra Kay George Interiors created a large Tuscan-style bathroom for a 10,000-square-foot estate that features a dome ceiling faux finished to match a stone mosaic, created by Buena Vista Faux and Mural. Other details include custom-made curved-front wood vanities, marble molding cut to arch around the mirrors, handmade wrought-iron lighting, and Giallo Reale marble flooring.

American Estate

Located in Los Angeles’ Holmby Hills, this brick and stone estate designed by Richard Manion Architecture integrates the elegance of an English country house. Custom appointments include a tile rug design and wood cabinetry that house a bathtub and linens.

Gilded Age

The original plan was to raze the existing bathroom of this Dallas home and make it larger. As construction progressed, Gracie Reed of Grace Designs flexed her creative muscles. Among her ideas: to create an arching window above the bathtub and barrel the ceiling. The arch shape was echoed in doors and the shower enclosure. The linen closet and vanities have specialty finishes using Modello patterns that were applied using Venetian metallic plaster and glazes. Cabinet and drawer pulls are made of mother-of-pearl.

Lux Boudoir

A boudoir-style bathroom for an estate in New Jersey includes custom-made vanities painted with Benjamin Moore Chelsea Gray- HC-168 and topped with a 2-inch-thick white marble slab. Designed by Susan Glick Interiors, the space also features tailor-made details like framed-mirror medicine cabinets, lucite vanity pulls, and 3D hexagonal white Carrara (with light gray veining) marble tiled wall.

Asian-Organic Fusion

Pebble-shaped Foscarini Gregg pendant lights suspended over an oval tub invite a view into a lush Georgia yard. Created by Rabaut Design Associates, the bathroom features Gray Natural Q-stone porcelain wall tile, with Ann Sacks KOI ceramic accent tiles.

Bathroom Made for a Rockefeller

It took a crane to lift the bathtub made of solid Carrara marble through the second-story window at an estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, that was once owned by the Rockefeller family. Designed by Vicente Burin Architects, the exquisite white bathroom is for the lady of the house; her husband’s is across the hall and sports dark colors and finishes. In the space that was once a small primary bath and two servants’ bedrooms, the new bathroom features a fireplace, custom-designed millwork and cabinetry, along with flooring, shower, and pilasters made of Thassos, Bardiglio, and Carrara marbles. Designed with privacy in mind, the door to the left of the shower leads to the water closet, while the one to the right ushers you into a walk-in closet.

Boston Victorian

A series of small rooms were transformed into a larger bathroom of a Victorian townhouse in Boston that spans between the primary bedroom and sitting room. Designer Jeffrey Delvy found French doors from 1870 that were centered on the wall opposite the bathtub, reflected in the mirror. Carrara marble was used for the walls and sinks, which were made by with reclaimed and replated metal legs. Not everything is vintage: the mirrors are touch-latched to reveal medicine cabinets.

Urban Regency

Right off, a turquoise tub is an eye-catcher. Greige subway tile walls mixed with marble and gold hardware and accents make for a perfect mash-up of Hollywood Regency meets urban chic. Designed by Eco Choice Interiors, this remodeled en-suite bath in Newnan, Georgia, includes marble countertops, custom cabinetry, artwork over the hand-painted tub, and French doors leading to the outdoors.

Going for Baroque

“Let them eat cake,” said Marie Antoinette, who would be right at home in this Baroque Beverly Hills bathroom that features a marble-edged tub with room for bath oils, bubbles, afternoon tea and macarons. Created by MI Design, this wonderfully decadent dream space includes antique mirrors, an ornate candelabra and amethyst chandelier, and a pistachio-colored vanity to powder your wig. Topping it off: a vaulted (domed) ceiling with chubby cherubs.

Modern Palette

A chevron-patterned polished-stone wall adds interest to this slelek design from GIA Bathrooms & Kitchens of Bentleigh, Victoria, Australia. Against a limited palette, a splash of greenery brightens this calming space. Matte-black fixtures, trim, and hardware are a bold choice rather than traditional metals.

Accent on Blue

Los Angeles is the land of many styles, as evidenced by this en-suite bathroom that blends touches of Art Deco, Moderne, and a wonderful blue wall that defies classification. A collaboration of Brian Klaas and Robin Dorman Design Concepts, the bathroom features black and white marble tile detailing on the “rug” and tub.

Pago Pago West

Unexpected touches of vivid colors distinguish a modern home in Florida designed by Architecture Joyce Owens. All bathroom showers have brilliant mosaic tiles; the primary bath’s curbless corner shower is a stunning mix of purples.

Cool Mint

An iconic board-formed concrete structure located near Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, California, sat neglected for years until SUBU Design Architecture and a team of professionals reimagined the space into a mix of Industrial chic meets California zen. Walls and floors of the new bathroom in this unit are made of Carrara marble panels, with plumbing fixtures by Waterworks.

Vintage Charm

An eclectically furnished home in Winnetka, Illinois features a charming bathroom by Alan Design Studio that includes a one-of-a-kind flea market mirror, Porcher fixtures, and peach-colored wallpaper in a vintage design.

In-Law En Suite

With in-laws moving in with the family in Fairfax, Virginia, Moss Building and Design was tasked with creating a luxurious primary bath that was part of a separate suite which also includes a bedroom, kitchen, and living space. The owners decided to repurpose furniture and accessories to create an area that reflects the tastes of their senior family members.

A Touch of Purple

Roselind Wilson Design was selected by the client to transform a 6,000-square-foot whitewashed Palace Court apartment in London’s Bayswater into an elegant residence that would harmoniously wed three generations’ varied tastes under one roof. The request for the primary bath was to create a luxurious look with a modern twist, which was attained by setting a slim, curving tub against an antiqued mirror backdrop. Concrete floor tiles add color and texture to the scheme. The modern twist: a vibrant contemporary purple Gessi basin and fixtures.

The Natural

Designmas of Melbourne, Australia, wisely used a vine-covered privacy wall to create an intimate outdoor extension for the tub. Set on a wooden deck-like platform, the tub flooring is flush with the outdoors, blending the two spaces.

Shades of Gray

Modern conveniences like a steam shower, make-up center, and vanity with a concealed video monitor behind the mirror were integrated into this bright, spacious, and open design by Peters Architecture of Laguna Hills, California.

Clean and Serene

Based in Birmingham, England, ProBuild 360 is a design/build firm that specializes in bathrooms and kitchens. This contemporary design is, indeed, a proper bathroom that includes a recessed tub in addition to a shower with body sprays. What distinguishes this design is an emphasis on clean, horizontal lines, found in the grain of the stone wall and floor panels, washstand, fixtures, and even the shape of the toilet.

DePaul Renovation

A crisp, fresh bathroom with an open window was a design collaboration between Janet McCann Associates interior design and BBA Architects of Chicago. Outstanding features include white polished Greek Thassos marble mosaic tile (identified by its brilliant crystalline color that resembles sugar) and a tile floor that warms toes when the temperatures drop.

Canyon Hideaway

What’s the unexpected thing that Lisa Bell of Lisa Bell Design Group likes about her design for a home in Los Angeles’ Bel Air Canyon? The juxtaposition of the concrete block wall exposed against the polished gray marble flooring. The countertops are made of leathered Calcutta marble with Kohler wall-mounted faucets.

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