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Bath Designs from Creative Homeowners and Renters

Homeowners and renters around the globe show on Houzz how they have decorated and improved their homes. Here we explore that creativity has extended to the hardworking bathroom. Here are a few of our favourite bath designs. 

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Garden view in a Portland basement. Tom Cotter and Doug Beebe created the bathroom of their dreams in the basement of their 1952 midcentury modern home in Oregon with the help of Holah Design and Architecture. A large window in the all-black room lets in natural light and frames potted plants in an almost still-life manner. 

Custom touches such as heated floors, a rain shower head and an extra-wide deck around the tub on which to set an evening cocktail make the space even more special. “There is nothing like relaxing in that spa-like setting,” Beebe says.

Tub: Tea for Two, Kohler; tub fixture: Hansgrohe; control valves: Kohler; sink: Whitehaus; sink faucet: Grohe; tile: Rex Ceramiche Abisko in Ebano; medicine cabinets: Century Bathworks; toilet: Toto

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Artful soak in New York. Bradford Shellhammer and Georgi Balinov’s love of color is evident in their home, including in the bathroom. Colorful trinkets and Andy Warhol pieces from the Warhol Foundation make it feel more like a gallery than a place to bathe.

Prismatic table: Isamu Noguchi, Vitra

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Industrial style in Tel Aviv. It may be compact, but Jonathan and Nofar Dar’sbathroom still manages to fit in side-by-side sinks. The exposed plumbing adds an industrial flair and also keeps the space feeling open. 

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Extra sink in a Toronto bedroom. Though not a full bathroom, this extra vanity in Steve and Meg Gardner’s master bathroom has sure come in handy in a house full of kids. They decided on the sink after discovering that plumbing was already in the wall. 

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