Often when we talk about remodeling bathrooms it’s purely for aesthetic reasons. How does the bathroom look and feel when you are in it. But, when you are fixing up a bathroom you can also take into account new technology that will help you save money, too. Believe it or not, an average shower uses…
It is perhaps the most common bathroom challenge we see—the small bathroom. “Small” is one thing, but then there’s really small. We’re talking Manhattan apartment small. We’re talking can-turn-around-without-bumping-into-your-shadow small. Maybe that’s a stretch, but you catch our drift. It is actually possible to add showers and tubs to some micro-bathrooms: Think outside the box.…
It may be unoriginal to compare the first five years of a person’s life with the last five years, but that’s because there is some truth to the comparison. For ages, some basic parallels have been drawn by people who have cared both for their babies and for their aging parents. They know, twice over,…
Lyndon B. Johnson once said that every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. Kind of an odd statement, since baths—not showers—were still the primary way people bathed during most of Johnson’s life. (You’d think showers would be the luxury.) Today, baths really have become the special, occasional treat Johnson made them out…
Recently we shared an image of a bath mat designed to grow lovely patterns of moss underfoot. Pictures of the so-called “living bath mat” can be found all over the web, but good luck trying to find a place to buy one: It’s actually an artist’s prototype. There are acres of imaginative new product designs…