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This post is sponsored by BEHR® and POPSUGAR. Back when we bought this house in 2009 I was an overzealous, 24-year-old, first- time home buyer (stop doing the math and trying to calculate my age– I’m 32). And I knew I wanted a blue master bathroom with crisp, white towels in a basket, but back then I didn’t know much about paint colors– see the first color I painted our kitchen. While the blue wasn’t awful, it really screamed ‘BLUE’, especially on sunny days. Over time, I started to get annoyed by how blue it was. So a few weeks ago I decided it was time to change the color. Mostly because I was tired of the BLUE and partially because it had been almost 9 years since I painted our bathroom, so it was time. When looking at colors, I wanted to stay with blue because I thought it worked best with our (not-by-choice) almond- colored bath fixtures . But I wanted more of a blue-gray. Putting the colors side by side shows how blue the old color was, and how the new color, BEHR Oceanic Clima...

I am a fanatic when it comes to bath and body products. I think most women are, even though they don’t admit it. I love to pamper myself as often as I can, even if it’s just something as simple as soaking in the bathtub or rubbing on some lovely scented body lotion . We only have one bathroom for my family of four. We almost have it down to a science when it comes to allowing everyone time in the bathroom to shower and get ready, but that often means we are only allotted 10-15 minutes to shower and get dressed. When you are rushing to get done in the shower it’s not always possible to take time and enjoy spa-like products. That is why I usually take a shower at night or after everyone has gone to work and school so I don’t feel rushed. I love to take baths. I try and take one at least once a week. It’s my little escape from reality for a half hour or so. If you like baths you might find these little facts interesting. In Ancient Rome, citizens bathed daily at the Roman baths, which of...

Advertisement - Continue Reading Below There's something transcendent about a truly luxurious bathroom—but you don't have to go to a four-star resort to get the experience. We went to interior designer Kyle Timothy Blood , of Kyle Timothy Home in East Hampton, New York, and Eddy Doumas, owner of Worth Interiors in Vail, Colorado, for their ideas on creating a spa feeling in your own home. Soup Up Your Tub Mention the words luxury and bath, and most people's minds turn immediately to the tub. "I steer my clients toward freestanding tubs because I think they're sexier than undermounts with miles of cold countertops," says Doumas. "You can add a beautiful piece of furniture and a basket for towels to the floor space you save." Whether you prefer the romance of a claw-foot tub or the extravagance of a marble surround, make sure your tub selection has adequate length and depth for comfortable bathing. The newest programmable tubs can automatically set ...

In the harried weeks before Italians’ massive August vacation, Milan is a town of working stiffs. Even the beautiful people of its world- famous furniture industry are drones, slaving away to create the lust-inducing products that will hit retail outlets in September. advertisement Nowhere is the hive busier than on the two floors of a 1918 terra-cotta and ochre building on Piazzale Libia, where 30 staffers at Studio Urquiola are working on a dizzying range of projects: a Marriott hotel in Barcelona with Ian Schrager, a line of award- winning bath fixtures for Axor, sets for a Monteverdi opera in Spain, and interiors for the fashion fair Pitti Uomo , in Florence. The chief designer herself, 49-year-old Spaniard Patricia Urquiola , is spinning too. She must plan a trip to a factory near Venice to inspect some furniture. A protégé needs advice on a line of tiles for Mutina. New York is calling, eager to arrange a photo shoot at the Udine house she designed for her friend Patrizia M...

When designing a bathroom, the key is to look beyond this space. Does the style blend with the rest of your house? Now, keep in mind, you don’t have to be matchy-matchy and blending doesn’t have to be boring. But if your door knobs and hardware throughout the home are oil-rubbed bronze and you choose nickel for a hall bathroom, the change in finish could be distracting to the eye. Same goes for color scheme, except for the powder room, where drama reigns. If the master bedroom walls are painted a cheery yellow and you go for a burgundy wine colored bathroom , the jarring contrast will create a choppy feel, not the smooth transition you’re after. Unless you plan on renovating the bedroom and changing the colors there, you want an adjacent bathroom design to go with the flow. “If the bathroom is part of a master bedroom, it needs to tie in with color or texture—something,” says Eileen Kollias, designer/owner, Eileen Kollias Design , Boston, Mass. “If the bathroom is in the hallway a...

Bathrooms can pose a challenge to a lover of home design – to most of us on a budget, they’re an expensive proposition to overhaul, and it can be difficult to justify a remodel if everything’s functioning. But how to decorate the room? Choosing the right bathroom color scheme can make all the difference in how much you love your bathroom…and the good news is, you CAN learn to love your bathroom again (or for the first time?). View in gallery View in gallery Below are lots of ideas for bathroom color schemes for almost any shape, size, and style of bathroom. While it’s hard for anyone to go wrong in pairing a beautiful color with white as a bathroom color scheme (plenty of examples below), there are lots of other options out there, too. We hope you’re inspired enough that, perhaps with just a coat of paint and a few accessories, you can change the entire space into a space you love. Or, at least, don’t hate. Cream and white. View in gallery Bathrooms weren’t traditionally very colo...