Bathroom Accessories

Bathroom Remodeling Can Be Both Big and Small
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Bathroom Decorating Ideas: Vanity Sink Furniture & Countertops By ... - American Chronicle

Bathroom Decorating Ideas: Vanity Sink Furniture & Countertops By ... American Chronicle, CA - Feb 26, 2008 A simple way to add warmth and elegance to your next bathroom remodel project is by changing the vanity sink. One of the best alternatives that combine the ... Bathroom Ideas: Choosing Glass, Ceramic or Stone Vessel Sinks By ... American Chronicle all 2 news articles

Vanity Retailer Announces New Signature Collections
Buy Vanities Online, a leading online retailer that carriers modern and antique vanities, announces their new Signature Collections.

2008 Taipei Int'l Furniture Show Brings a New Polish on Asian Quality
Held jointly by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and the Taiwan Furniture Manufacturers' Association (TFMA) with sponsorship from the Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs, the 2008 Taipei Int'l Furniture Show (TiFS 2008) will bedazzle the Taipei World Trade Center from Feb. 28th to March 2nd. This venue will see some 299 domestic and international ...

Outdoor Bed from Mazuvo - Balu garden bed

What could be more luxurious than a siesta in the open air on the Balu garden bed – a remarkable outdoor bed from Mazuvo? The breeze caresses your cheek as you nestle into the secure comfort of the Balu bed, and you slowly drift away… safe in the knowledge that the simple circular design is not only comfy, but an iconic addition to your garden. The Balu is meant to be enjoyed for many years to come: its weatherproof fabric and washable pillows attest to that. Likewise, the plastic mesh construction means that the outdoor bed will retain its smart looks and natural appearance over time. Rustic honey coloured, the Balu garden bed from Mazuvo blends seamlessly into any garden setting.

Take advantage of National Kitchen and Bath Month
Sparta Expositor - The bathroom tends to be one of the now offering beautiful custom vanities at a low cost. The kit includes a vanity, stone counter tops, a decorative sink and a very stylish faucet. Lighting sets the mood in the home, as well as in the bathroom.

Kludi RAK inaugurates home-fittings plant - GulfNews

Kludi RAK inaugurates home-fittings plant GulfNews, United Arab Emirates - 21 hours ago ... of $15 million (Dh55 millions), will manufacture high quality bathroom and kitchen fittings including faucets, mixers, showers and other accessories. ...

Buy Vanities Online Releases New Granite Top Bathroom Vanity - Emediawire (press release)

Buy Vanities Online Releases New Granite Top Bathroom Vanity Emediawire (press release), WA - Feb 21, 2008 Buy Vanities Online, a leading online source of bathroom vanities, is releasing a new granite top bathroom vanity as part of their DeMichele Collection. ...

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SATURDAY, Feb. 23 Contra Costa Times, CA - Feb 23, 2008 8743830 (HGTV) Save My Bath -- Redesigning a cramped master bathroom. 5978439 (HGTV) Spice Up My Kitchen -- A one-of-a-kind kitchen gets a renovation. ... FRIDAY, Feb. 22 Contra Costa Times SUNDAY, Feb. 24 Contra Costa Times all 3 news articles

Open a door to savings by installing tub door - Orlando Sentinel

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Wall Unit by Hartmann - Cubo modern wall units in solid wood design

Focus is placed on the freedom of positioning with the Cubo modern wall units by Hartmann in a solid wood design. Modern furniture that will certainly outlast trends, the Cubo elements can be personalised and combined to suit your own entertainment area. Made from gorgeous wild oak, the feel of this wall unit is natural, and entirely approachable. Flat-faced, generously wide units allow plenty of storage space as well as space for a large sized flat-screen TV. Bookshelves, illuminated glass-fronted display cabinets, chests and cabinets can be wall-mounted or floor-standing according to your vision. Organise your living environment with the timeless appeal of Cubo modern wall units from Hartmann.

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Contemporary Kitchen from Tomassi Cucine - Andromeda kitchen

Chic urban looks make the Andromeda contemporary kitchen from Tomassi Cucine the latest kitchen to embody cosmopolitan style. Modern and bold, the Andromeda kitchen’s vivid colors are not for the faint-hearted. Rather, those with strength of character will see the kitchen’s sharp design and bright hues as an expression of their vitality and unique personality. Striking combinations of black and yellow, or red and grey, look great in high-quality, high-gloss material. Without distracting and unnecessary frills, the slot handle of the Andromeda kitchen disappears to provide a totally linear aspect. With functionality in mind, the countertops feature rounded edges and flush tops to ensure hygiene. Another gorgeous contemporary kitchen from Tomassi Cucine, the Andromeda kitchen surprises and delights.

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A successful bathroom design firstly assesses the space available, the practical requirements and how the homeowner desires the space to look and feel. Does the bathroom need to be family-friendly and serviceable or is it for two baby boomers living in an empty nest with the disposable income to create the luxurious bathroom of their dreams?

Starting with baths – the ultimate in cleansing relaxation – there’s more than merely good looks to consider. Invisible but essential factors such as water supply and drainage issues need to be addressed BEFORE you buy the particular model you’re interested in. Spa baths have different requirements again.

The style of shower will also be dictated by the space available. Accessibility and the age of people using it may have a bearing on the final decision. Budget and personal needs will also determine the shower style. Whether it’s a practical, no-nonsense fitting or the ultimate in luxury with massage jets and extra features make sure the style chosen fits the vision in mind.

Ask the bathroom consultant about grey water requirements and if no one in your household likes scrubbing the shower, it would be advisable to choose a style that’s relatively easy to clean.

There’s plenty of choice in the toilet suite market too. Wall-mounted styles make the most of precious space and urinals have recently arrived on the domestic bathroom scene – just perfect for ending those arguments over the correct position of the toilet seat. Up or down?! Bidets are gaining in credibility too and both urinals and bidets are known for their water-saving features.

The choice of tapware on the market is extensive too, ensuring the right aesthetic touch for any style of room. Ideally, taps should be chosen after the bathroomware, as their size and position need to work with the appliances selected. Water pressure can also influence tap position.

Tapware can either be wall mounted, placed on the actual appliances or even emerge from the floor as an aesthetic feature over a stylish bath. Shower tap selection is just as important as the actual shower cubicle so make sure your choice will fulfil all requirements.

The needs of the household and the number of people within will have a bearing on the style, type, size and number of wash basins installed. Whether looks or practicality are a priority, try to conceal all plumbing for a more attractive finish. If some fittings need to be visible, try to stretch the budget to chrome, which will look far more attractive than plastic fittings.

Built-in or stand alone – that’s the big question about bathroom cabinetry. Whatever the choice, the experience of standing at the vanity should be pleasurable with all requirements easily at hand and storage well thought out.

When it comes to the finishing touches, consider the bathroom as a living space as well as a functional room. There are many possibilities to create a personal, sophisticated effect using accessories such as artwork, furniture, mirrors and feature lighting.

Three of the most important requirements in a bathroom – ventilation, heating and lighting – are often left until the last minute, when they should be an integral aspect of the design process. Adequate ventilation and heating are essential for the successful functioning of any bathroom. They can even be combined in the same fitting although this often looks purely functional.

Lighting is also integral to a pleasing result and for the ultimate result fittings should accommodate functionality, ambience and aesthetics. Correct lighting over mirrors is especially vital so talk to an expert to ensure the right type and angle of fitting is selected.

Clever bathroom design can be all things to all people and should provide just the right mood and function, any time of day or night.

COLOGNE.-As one of its Culture Projects, Dornbracht is unveiling the first collection of sounds for ritual architecture in the bathroom. With ritual architecture, Dornbracht is opening up the way to a new mindset: It conceives of people as ‘bathroom dwellers’ – and not just as ‘bathroom users’. This creates a new function for the bathroom – as a habitat people can consciously experience. It fosters qualities that go far beyond the purely physical satisfaction of needs – qualities that transcend mere washing. These demands are reflected in bathroom architecture, design and materials. The bathroom thus creates an opportunity to define a new, immaterial approach to luxury. The luxury of a single, daily retreat where body, spirit, and soul can be rediscovered.

In addition to the work of pure product development, inspirations for this new direction can also be found in the lead bathrooms created for certain product themes. 2003 MEM – The ritualised ego-bath, oriented entirely around contemplation. 2006 Tara.Logic – the next step from the Private Spa to the Active Spa and 2007 ELEMENTAL SPA– a bathroom that places prime focus on water, with fittings that evoke the grace of springs, marking the watering places within the room. They are the origin of the architecture. The bathroom as a sanctuary for the soul.

The ‘Noises for Ritual Architecture’ soundscapes reflect the relationship between the space, the materiality and the movement within the MEM, TARA LOGIC and ELEMENTAL SPA. The range is being presented for the first time as part of a Sound Spa, on the premises of the factory of Mike Meiré responsible for the culture projects.

‘Noises 1 MEM’ is a tribute to the Muses Aoide, Mneme and Melete, the Muses of song, memory and meditation, Music is manifested more in the contours of possibility than in the contours of form. What remain are memory, expansiveness and ease. In the MEM architecture, the physical materiality of the fittings ebbs away, leaving the room as the focus of attention. Carlo Peters’ composition picks up on the spiritual energies contained in this room, creating a swaying carpet of sound from one single slow vibration and, over this ground, setting up an interplay of numerous natural sounds with digital clicks, noises and streams.

‘Noise 2 Logic’: the sound composition for the TARA LOGIC architecture focuses on the parameters of activity/exertion, strength and movement. Here the music is perhaps best understood as a ‘soundtrack’ in a literal sense. The wave band becomes a moving walk: Like exercise carried out indoors or an accelerated pulse, the first segment, ‘Amber Glass’, is based on repetitive patterns in which pulsing timbres create a sustained freshness. In a percussive way, material is whisked away to a trance-like state before it dematerialises itself, lifts off and, in 255.230.2 [a yellow], attains an intermediate level that resembles a dreamlike departure lounge. This journey with the mechanics of one’s own body is a fresh comes to an end in a renewed arrival in a calmer, a more careful, a gentler state.

The titles of the three pieces of ‘Noise 3 Elemental’ are different ways of referring to the chemical element copper, which dominates the surfaces in ELEMENTAL SPA. ‘Cyprium 10834’ contains the Latin name and the boiling point of the material, ‘Ybergangsmetalle’ is the Old German name for the cupreous metals in the period system, whereas the last title, ‘Copper Acetate’, refers to verdigris and consequently plays on the potentially changeable nature of the substance, which forms part of the material concept. The tripartite nature of the composition can also be understood as an analogy for passing through the various stages of cleansing: The piece begins with entry to the spectacular world of Elemental Spa, as the harsh impressions of everyday life arise out of a deep and powerful sonic movement. The theme of the middle section is the encounter with the water. Through the music, the listening ear becomes the part of the body touched by the water. Yet the surrounding materials become audible as well, with the steel and copper beginning to vibrate and seeming to twist around the ear.

When linked with the third, spherical section, a transformative transition can be ascertained: whilst the struggle with mysterious and dark elements is at first closed in as an integral part of the cleansing process, the perspective then opens up; at the end, the spatial and audio impression is surrounded by the vastness of a cosmos.

The material edition of the CDs on which the ‘Noises’ appear is closely linked with their point of departure: the ritual architectures. Still, allowance is made for the independence of the sphere of sound: The poster enclosed with each CD shows, within the MEM, a digital collage of an excerpt of the atrium housing the paradisiacal garden, a garden that is itself digitally distorted. For Elemental, at the same position, colour and surface impressions from the ‘Elemental Spa’ were graphically blended into one another. LOGIC is the poster of the media wall, showing a projection of digitised water. The covers themselves feature abstract representations of the various modules of the bathroom architecture and their spatial arrangement. These geometries act as icons, making them the basic molecular building blocks, as it were, both of the music and of the multimedia production by Jens-Oliver Gasde. This iconisation makes clear: While the view of sound and space within the scope of the project is admittedly shaped, in part, by the insights of Brian Eno, the ‘inventor’ of ambient, into musical philosophy and the philosophy of perception, there is still a new task at hand: Music for Airports, for instance, the style-setting LP released by Brian Eno in 1978, is oriented around an imagined, virtual space, filled, in a model approach, with a quality hitherto absent, while the Noises derive an image of sound from a very specific space and proceed to draw upon the course of various rituals in a variety of existing material worlds. As a result of this very move, both sound and moving image can ask questions about the unseen: they remain abstract and diffuse at the same time, palpable and yet not entirely tangible.

NOISES FOR RITUAL ARCHITECTURE was instigated by Mike Meiré. The sound collages of Cologne composer Carlo Peters represent the relationship between space, materiality and movement in ritual architecture and were produced by NEO NOTO, Cologne. Computer-generated animation by Jens-Oliver Gasde completes the production in the SoundSpa. ‘Noises for Ritual Architecture’ is available exclusively through the iTunes Store. During the presentation on the occasion of the Passagen, the SoundSpa will be complemented by a walk-through, pneumatic foyer by Plastique Fantastique (www.plastique-fantastique.de).

As a current contribution to the Dornbracht Edges, Noises for Ritual Architecture is the continuation of a series that collects projects at the interface of architecture, design and art. The Edges are platforms, especially for designers and architects, who depict their visions and utopias. Thus in 2001, internationally renowned architects such as David Adjaye and Claudio Silvestrin developed their ideas of the bathroom of the future in ‘Bath modules’. In 2003 Matali Crassat provided a poetic new interpretation of the bathroom in ‘Update / three Spaces in one’, and 2004/2005 the Dornbracht Research Unit ETH Zurich under Prof. Dr. Marc Angéli looked at the acts of cleansing and care from the point of ritual and their ‘Production of space’. Mike Meiré himself created a futuristic “wash-plant” for people in 2004, the “E-R-S – Energetic Recovery System”, which clea

Renovating your bathroom can breathe extra life into your whole house, however you must always remember that this room is functional. You cannot make it look clinical because then it wont do the job that it needs to do. To create a functional bathroom you can use accessories to make more of your space. There is a wide range of different bathroom accessories which should be considered, simple things that can simply be placed on a table, to complicated things that need installing.

Caddies Keep The Shower Clear

Even if you have a stunning bath or shower, the looks can be spoilt by clutter. Clutter always accumulates around the shower and bathtub. By using some clever accessories you can minimize how much of a problem this clutter will cause. You can for example use caddies to store shampoo and soap. Simple bathroom caddies are available which simply hang from the head of your shower. There are also more complicated caddies which require you drilling holes to fit them.

Treat Yourself To Warmth

Tiled floors are becoming very popular in bathrooms, these tiled floors can be made from stone or more commonly ceramics. However these tiled floors are quite cold, this can make them very uncomfortable to walk on, especially if you've just had a nice warm shower. To prevent this becoming a problem you should consider installing electric under floor heating. This must be installed before you lay your floor as it has to be fitted underneath the floor.

Even if you don't want to install an electric heated floor there are alternatives. You could install a towel rack which is heated. This will mean that you will at least have a warm towel when you step out from the shower. These are examples of fairly large bathroom accessories, however they can improve how your bathroom feels.

Find A Place To Sit

You should defiantly consider finding somewhere to sit in your bathroom. Whether you intend to sit in the tub, or outside you defiantly need somewhere. Most of these accessories are small stools which allow you to wash your legs easier. These accessories will also make drying your feet a much easier job! Bathroom accessories really can be used to make your bathroom a more inviting and special place which you will enjoy spending time in.