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A Washington, D.C., family of four asked designer Sara Swabb of Storie Collective to update its 1936 Tudor-style home in a way that honored the home’s roots while bringing it into the modern era. In the entry, Swabb, who uses Houzz Pro business software, opened things up by widening doorways to keep sightlines clear to the kitchen and dining areas and allow natural light to be shared between the rooms.
In the kitchen, a warm green cabinet color, an arched range alcove and handmade terra-cotta tile flooring in a herringbone pattern create a fresh style that nods to the home’s past. A zellige tile accent wall spans the room, helping visually connect the main cooking area to a nearby zone containing a paneled fridge, a secondary sink and a built-in coffee machine. Textured wallpaper and patterned draperies energize the dining room, and midcentury modern furnishings perk up the living room.
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These Littleton, Colorado, homeowners knew exactly what they wanted to get out of their bathroom renovation, right down to the cabinet hardware. In fact, they presented interior designer Bonnie Bagley Catlin with the most thorough Google Doc design she’d ever seen in her professional career. “They knew the finishes they liked, that they wanted organic modern style, and they even had determined the subcontractors that they wanted to use,” she says. “What they really needed help with is my specialty. Often clients come to me knowing that their bathroom is broken. They know that it doesn’t function or flow correctly, but they don’t know what’s wrong. I know how to give them a layout that will work for them. After we get that right, we can make it beautiful.”
In this case, a primary sitting room led through a hallway to the primary bathroom. Two separate vanities and a tub with a very large deck made the flow awkward and wasn’t making the most efficient use of the space. The homeowners also wanted to borrow space from the bathroom to enlarge their closet. Bagley Catlin took all these factors into account when reconfiguring things. The result is a light-filled bathroom full of bells and whistles, such as dual jet sets in the shower, special storage inserts in the cabinetry and a stunning new coffee bar that helps the couple wake up and caffeinate on the way to their morning showers.
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These Littleton, Colorado, homeowners knew exactly what they wanted to get out of their bathroom renovation, right down to the cabinet hardware. In fact, they presented interior designer Bonnie Bagley Catlin with the most thorough Google Doc design she’d ever seen in her professional career. “They knew the finishes they liked, that they wanted organic modern style, and they even had determined the subcontractors that they wanted to use,” she says. “What they really needed help with is my specialty. Often clients come to me knowing that their bathroom is broken. They know that it doesn’t function or flow correctly, but they don’t know what’s wrong. I know how to give them a layout that will work for them. After we get that right, we can make it beautiful.”
In this case, a primary sitting room led through a hallway to the primary bathroom. Two separate vanities and a tub with a very large deck made the flow awkward and wasn’t making the most efficient use of the space. The homeowners also wanted to borrow space from the bathroom to enlarge their closet. Bagley Catlin took all these factors into account when reconfiguring things. The result is a light-filled bathroom full of bells and whistles, such as dual jet sets in the shower, special storage inserts in the cabinetry and a stunning new coffee bar that helps the couple wake up and caffeinate on the way to their morning showers.
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After: Belldina replaced the window with a smaller one set higher up to allow her to enlarge the kitchen by 44 square feet, which helped increase storage and countertop surface.
A roomy new peninsula has seating for four and plenty of prep space on the stylish new Stellar quartzite countertops. “It ties in the colors of the kitchen, and it’s very warm and neutral and doesn’t compete with the range,” Belldina says.
Blue-gray tones in the stone complement custom slim Shaker-style cabinets painted a custom soft blue-gray. Belldina reworked the wall on the left, placing a paneled fridge where a reach-in pantry had been. Cabinets to the right of the fridge now store pantry items and a built-in coffee bar.
Improving the cabinet space allowed Belldina to remove all the upper cabinets on the sink and range walls and run 5-by-5-inch creamy white zellige-style tiles countertop to ceiling. “We wanted to make the space feel more open and airy, so your eye moves around the room,” she says. “We also brought it up to the ceiling because it made the whole space feel larger.”
Stained white oak shelves and range hood detail, mango wood stools with woven banana leaf seats and refinished red oak flooring add warmth. The kitchen has new recessed LED ceiling lights, which were digitally removed from these photos by the photographer to help highlight other design details.
Stools: Largo counter stool, Russet Mango, Four Hands; backsplash tiles: WOW design EU; wall paint: Chantilly Lace, Benjamin Moore
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“The shower tile is so pretty, it’s an undulating 3-by-8-inch subway tile with various shades of white,” Nelson says. “It has a really soft artisan feel.” Composing the tile in a vertical grid pattern added a modern touch to the classic room.
The shower has a wall-mounted rain shower head and a regular shower head with a handheld shower wand on a bar. Nelson also placed hooks just past the door on the right for robes and towels. They’re just outside of this photo’s frame, but you can see them in the first photo.
Shower tile: Blanco, Passion series, Emser Tile; shower quartz: Breeze Blanc, Quartzforms Spa; plumbing fixtures: Artifacts collection, Kohler
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This older adult wanted to update his decades-old en suite bathroom to help with aging in place and deliver a wow factor. He tapped designer Molly Littlejohn and Kraft Custom Construction to spearhead the makeover. The remodeling team ditched a little-used jetted tub, as well as a worn wood vanity and a tight fiberglass shower stall, then reworked the layout for better maneuverability.
By rearranging the location of the main components, they were able to create a roomier walk-in shower, a larger vanity that significantly improves storage and an open toilet area, leaving plenty of floor and elbow room. A layered lighting scheme results in a well-lit space and highlights the warm contemporary style that combines various off-white tiles, matte black fixtures and a natural knotty alder vanity cabinet with concrete-look countertop.
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Pearson also brought warmth into the room with the metal finishes, which are a mix of unlacquered brass, aged brass and polished nickel. She has some advice for mixing metals, though she notes that this is merely guidance and not a strict set of rules.
“I like to do things in horizontal layers, like a cake,” she says. “For example, here the cabinet hardware [aged brass] is one layer, the plumbing fixtures [polished nickel] are the next layer, and the mirrors and sconces [unlacquered brass] are the next layer. I will also stick with the same finish in categories, such as all the plumbing fixtures or lighting fixtures. Also, I’ll use all warm or all cold finishes within one room. Polished nickel can go either way, but it has warm undertones that chrome does not.”
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This empty-nest couple disliked a lot about their kitchen. A peninsula divided it from the family room. An eat-in area with a desk wasted square footage. And boring finishes in similar tones ran together — honey maple cabinets, mottled, hand-scraped wood flooring and brown granite for the countertops and backsplash.
The couple hired designer Lori Ramsay to help them sort out the issues, maximize storage and add fresh style. Ramsay removed the peninsula and expanded the kitchen into the former eat-in area. A new large island improves workflow and includes seating. Ample cabinets add tons of storage. A dashing two-tone cabinet approach combines dark blue with light-stained maple. Patterned backsplash tile nods to the home’s Mediterranean style.
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The homeowners found Laura Irion and Laura Peacock of Laura Design Co. through Houzz, and the team collaborated with kitchen designer Wendy Franz of Studio 912 to create the cabinetry layout and design. Using Houzz Pro throughout the process for proposals and invoices, Irion and Peacock selected the kitchen’s materials and furnishings. Irion says the homeowners’ taste leans toward contemporary and midcentury modern design, but their home’s architecture is more classic. So the team blended the styles to arrive at a timeless look.
The designers chose the Evaro inset cabinet door style from StarMark, a semicustom cabinet line carried by Studio 912. The clients were willing to embrace color and loved green and blue, so the designers paired green bottom cabinets with white uppers and a wood-tone island (all prefinished StarMark colors).
“I think that was just a really neat way to have a hit of color and some colored cabinetry without feeling like it was scary,” Irion says. “It’s hard to commit to a whole room of color cabinetry.”
To the left of the sink is one of the clients’ wish list items: a pullout for trash and recycling.
StarMark cabinet colors: maple in Marshmallow Cream (wall cabinets), maple in Moon Bay (base cabinets), alder with Oregano stain (island base cabinets)
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Whether you’re looking to spruce up a specific room or decorating an entire house from scratch, a good first step is to create an ideabook filled with photos of spaces you like.
Sign into your Houzz account, then head over to the Houzz photo feed, where you can find millions of photos. If you wish, you can refine your search by choosing a specific room from the options just under the “Home Design Ideas” heading at the top of the page. Now look for a little pull-down menu on the right, just above the project photos, labeled “Sort by:.” Choosing “Newly Featured” from the pull-down menu will show you the latest high-quality images uploaded to the site.
Scroll through the images until you find something you like, then click the heart symbol to save the photo. When the box pops up, create a new ideabook by selecting “Create New and Save” and typing your new ideabook title. As you save additional photos, choose that folder title from the “Recent Ideabooks” list. Add a note to each photo specifying the elements you like.
At this stage of the game, save as many photos as you want, but prioritize rooms that have an overall style that appeals to you versus a single element. (Those photos can go in a separate ideabook.)