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Bathroom of the Week: Beachy Style With Aging-in-Place Features

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Heavy elements like a built-in jetted tub, a water closet and a pony-walled corner shower ate up much of this couple’s 166-square-foot bathroom. Looking to loosen up the layout and add stylish aging-in-place features, they reached out to designer and project manager Amanda Davis.

Davis removed the bathtub, walls around the water closet and pony walls around a portion of the shower to create an airier footprint with more room for maneuvering. A curbless shower with a wide ADA-compliant entry and grab bars inside (and beside the toilet) add future-proof features. Noticing that much of the home’s art was inspired by the ocean, Davis added a custom mural made from mosaic marble pieces that gives the impression of coastal fog wrapping the shower walls. A similar mosaic adorns an arched niche area that contains a walnut bench and storage cabinet. Soothing sea green granite slabs form the countertops and wrap the lower portion of the shower and pony walls. Walnut vanities add warmth visually, while heated flooring does it literally.



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What’s Your Holiday Hosting Style?

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Organized and thoughtful:

You’re a careful planner and thoughtful host and you understand the importance of preparation. Not for you the impulse buying or last-minute panic of hosting guests. You’ve had this planned for weeks.

Tables are set in advance, presents are wrapped, and you’ve done as much as possible to alleviate any last-minute stress. As a result, guests love to visit your home over the holidays. In fact, you’re so efficient that others sometimes feel they can take a back seat, so make sure to ask for help when needed. You deserve to relax and enjoy the festivities too.

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Porch of the Week: Adirondack Style and Indoor-Outdoor Dining

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Mosquitoes, biting yellow flies and countless other insects and critters make screened-in porches a must for comfort on the Florida panhandle. A couple living in Atlanta hired architect Danny Martin to design a home for their retirement in a new panhandle community called Draper Lake, and a screened-in porch plays a key role in the home’s design and in their lifestyle.

The couple uses the screened-in porch for dining, grilling, lounging and enjoying a favorite hobby — making pizza in a wood-fired oven. Working within a tight lot overlooking a dune lake, Martin also used the porch as a key connector between the carriage house, the main house and the yard.



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A 130-Square-Foot Bathroom Gets Warm Style With a Reeded Vanity

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With a 2-year-old daughter and a baby on the way, this young couple were looking to give their daughter a bathroom she could grow into. They hired designer Kirby Foster Hurd, who used Houzz Pro software to convert a former garage area into a bedroom and a comfortable, accessible bathroom with materials and features that won’t go out of style. In the bathroom, a low-profile tub gives the couple an easy way to bathe their toddler and will provide a stylish spot to soak as their daughter grows. A curbless shower features a handheld sprayer for quick rinses. Meanwhile, a warm wood vanity with reeded front, along with textured wallpaper, creamy white tile in the shower and glamorous light fixtures, creates a style even a future teenager could love.

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Kitchen of the Week: European Style for a Rambling Ranch House

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The kitchen in this Minneapolis-area rambling ranch wasn’t cutting it for a home cook who loves to prepare meals for her family. Armed with inspiration images from designer Emily Pueringer’s portfolio as well as a favorite blogger’s kitchen with a very long island, she hired Pueringer herself to design the kitchen.

By combining the existing kitchen and adjacent dining room, the designer gave her clients a large kitchen with plenty of space for cooking, baking and gathering. The layout includes a long island down the center, a significant range alcove, a desk area for writing letters and separate fridge and freezer units. The new kitchen’s style evokes old-world European charm with ceiling beams, marble, hand-painted terra-cotta tiles and brass accents.



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Kitchen of the Week: Ready to Entertain in Wood-and-Blue Style

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After: Reedy stripped the kitchen back and stretched the footprint into the breakfast area, adding 120 square feet. An extra-long island features seating for six on one end and storage on the other. “The peninsula sort of boxed in whoever was entertaining,” Reedy says. “It also didn’t allow for gathering where everyone felt connected. The new island gives them seating all together and creates a walkway that didn’t exist before. They have a pool and grill just steps away outside, so now they also have a more direct path from the outdoors.”

The kitchen’s new palette allowed Reedy to combine the husband’s love of wood tones and limestone with the wife’s affection for bright and light finishes. “We found all of the ivory tones and midtone wood grain and pops of blue checked all the right boxes for both of them,” Reedy says. The island anchors the space in navy blue. The perimeter cabinets are maple in a semitransparent stain. The flooring is 15-by-30-inch limestone-look porcelain tiles in a matte finish. A white ceramic subway tile backsplash and polished marble-look quartz countertops brighten the room.

Backsplash: Cloe in white, 2½ by 8 inches, Bedrosians Tile and Stone; cabinetry: Artisan Maple Bellefonte five-piece in Mariner (island) and Sandbar with a semitransparent stain (perimeter), Wolf Home Products; floor tile: Riverstone in ivory, 15-by-30-inches, Castille, Floor & Decor; paint colors: Whitetail (walls and ceiling) and Navajo White (trim), Sherwin-Williams

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8 Steps to Finding Your Design Style Using Ideabooks

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1. Create a ‘Love It!’ Ideabook

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.)



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Peek Inside a Classic Tudor Home Updated With Fresh Style

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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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Bathroom of the Week: Organic Modern Style With a Coffee Bar

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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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Bathroom of the Week: Organic Modern Style in Colorado

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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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