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My Must Have Bath Resources

21 min readLet’s wrap up the bathroom season with all my best advice.

Earlier in this podcast season we explored your bath remodel “why” and the dreams you have for your home. But there are some very practical reasons to remodel a bathroom.

Even a really great time capsule bathroom might need to change. (I know! I heard that gasp!)

But if you’re going to invest in a bathroom upgrade or take out original features you want to make sure you do it right.

Most of you reading this would move mountains to save a great original bath. And sometimes you can! But as I mentioned above, there are situations where a bathroom just needs to change. Like when:

There’s something going wrong in there.
It’s not suiting your life properly.
Other spaces need to change around it.

Let me elaborate.

Your mid-century bathroom is a bit of a drama queen.

19 min readMid-Century bathrooms are pretty dramatic. They are complicated spaces with bunch needs jammed into a very small footprint.

A bathroom has to have storage, work surfaces, multiple plumbing fixtures, a variety of lighting…and it all has to look beautiful. PLUS it has house all of that in a space with fluctuating levels of humidity and temperature changes.

Today I’m pulling back the curtain on how to create a comfortable, healthy, code compliant bathroom without sacrificing the character of your mid-century home.

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Our techno-optimist “modern” mid-century ancestors often embraced technology at the expense of nature. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from studying homes across the USA: relying solely on mechanical systems to replace natural light and air is a design mistake.

A basement owners suite – the upside of upside down living

23 min readHave you ever wondered if your bedroom is in the right spot? Could the best place for your bedroom be in the…basement?

Could you be overlooking the perfect spot for your dream owners’ suite?

If your mcm home has a basement you might be!

Private spaces on the lower level (usually a walkout or half-level) are much more common in areas with great views where you want to see those vistas while you’re awake and share them with friends and family in the public spaces.

But adding a dreamy bedroom with an amazing en suite in the basement (or on a lower level) offers some real advantages…even if your only views are of the other adorable mid-century homes in your neighborhood.

Let’s explore the possibilities of a basement owners’ suite through one of my favorite recent master plan projects!