How many times have you been warned not to throw rocks at a glass house, and how many times has that advice come in handy? Well, brave architects are planning to build a glass house showroom this year. They won't have any trouble filling it, either, with the glass furniture, glass tile, glass accents, and glass everything else that's already available. They'll have to work around birds trying to fly in and people looking up ladies' skirts, but the design itself will be no problem >>>...
A while back I wrote about the top ten most unique freestanding bathtubs, and while I stand by my picks, I'd like to admit today that that list has a pretty huge, glaring problem with it: I focused more on form than on material. I mentioned a few metal tubs - especially copper tubs - which I'm a particular fan of - but by and large I opted to talk more about interestingly designed acrylic and porcelain tubs than ones made of unique materials. Today, I want to rectify the mistake by talking a bit about two of the more innovative types of tubs that aren't just your average, plain jane white: wood bathtubs and glass walled bathtubs >>>...
The famous British poet Lord Byron is quotes as saying, "Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil. " Called everything from social lubricant to drink of the gods to the most civilized thing in the world, wine is the ultimate social drink. Unfortunately, it also happens to primarily come in heavy, fragile, hard-to-transport glass bottles >>>...
Are the French Country design shopping guides going to keep coming? Do they speak French. . >>>...
Fewer things are nastier than messes dried onto kitchen walls. Wet and molding kitchen walls might be one of them. Solution: mosaic tile kitchen backsplash >>>...
Welcome to a shameless display of my affection for kitchen backsplash design. A kitchen backsplash isn't just useful, or just pretty, or even pretty useful. It's a solid investment to protect your kitchen walls and the good humor of your kitchen slave >>>...
It's fairly common knowledge that one of the fastest, easiest, and least expensive ways to enhance the appearance and value of your bathroom is to add new bathroom tiling, or replace your existing tile. But picking just the right bathroom tiles - the style, color, material, size, and installation type - can be a little confusing. Though it's a relatively inexpensive change, altering the bathroom tiling on your walls, floors, or even in your shower can dramatically change the appearance of your bathroom >>>...
Floor medallions are often found in entryways or other large, open spaces - places where they're free to make an impression. They can be made of stone or other tile or sometimes wood pieces, and can either be assembled or carved, etched, or stained directly onto the floor. They're usually circular in design and act as a centerpiece in a room >>>...
Installing tile is one of the necessary evils of great bathroom design. No bathroom is complete without at least some tile, and the better the tile job, the more polished and pristine the final product will look. But buying tile is expensive, to say nothing of the cost of hiring someone to install it >>>...
In the last post I talked briefly about hardwood flooring as a good option for homes with dogs. While I still stand by solid hardwood as a solid option, there are, of course, alternatives for folks who want the look of wood but for whatever reason - budget, maintenance routine, environmental concerns, etc. - do not want to install hardwood >>>...
