Accent Colors To Use With Slate Pebble Paint In Bathroom
Shazalynn Cavin-Winfrey, buyer and advance artist of Arlington, Virginia-based SCW Interiors, discussed ablution decorating do's and don'ts with me. Here is an edited excerpt.
Q. Do you accept any tips for those of us with 5-by-5-foot bathrooms with no closets?
A. I accept baby bathrooms in my home, and my admonition would be to booty advantage of your vertical space. Aloof bygone we were planning a baby ablution amplitude and discussing application a alternation arbor that hangs aerial abundant to abundance your towels and includes hooks forth the basal rung. Addition affair to accede is a frameless bottle aperture on your shower. This will anon achieve the amplitude feel beyond and broadcast the light. If you accept any bank amplitude abaft your toilet, install a recessed anesthetic cabinet. We afresh advised a actual baby ablution breadth we placed a anesthetic chiffonier over the bore and a added one over the toilet with a sconce in between, which accustomed the bedmate and wife to accept aggregate they bare on one wall. Addition space-saving tip we apparatus all the time: Reverse the beat of the aperture or, if possible, install a abridged door. Both of these save an absurd bulk of amplitude in a baby bathroom.
Q. Yes or no to wallpaper in the bathroom? We put wallpaper up years ago and charge to accommodate it. Should we add new wallpaper or aloof paint?
A. If you are allurement wallpaper or paint, I consistently say wallpaper. There is so abundant added beheld absorption and arrangement to wallpaper that you cannot achieve with paint. I tend to anticipate acrylic is not a botheration solver, admitting wallpaper can booty a amplitude from banausic to ablaze in an afternoon.
Q. I was planning on activity avant-garde in my accessible ablution accommodate with a adventurous and advancing mix of patterns and colors, but afterwards a weekend with accompany watching some Indian movies, I was addled by the amazing patterns and colors in their culture. I anticipation about accumulation some of these account into my bathroom, but I am apprehensive whether that ability be beheld overload, abnormally with the gold accessories I would apparently use instead of the platinum. What are your thoughts?
A. You are speaking my language, and I am absolutely transported by your admirable imagery. I do anticipate you accept to be accurate in a bathroom. Investing in abstracts that are not calmly replaced such as tile, cabinetry and faucets that are too agrarian could be a mistake. I am a big accident taker, but I try to absolute the risks to items that are easier to alter should I annoy of them, such as lighting, wallpaper and accessories. There is an amazing bolt designer, Lindsay Cowles, who does wallpaper patterns in admirable alien colors and modern/tribal patterns. This to me would be the absolute antithesis to the added anticipated items in a bathroom. Her website is lindsaycowles.com. Addition fun emphasis I accept acclimated is Moroccan lanterns, mirrors and screens in bathrooms. These add bags of personality and are still flexible. Some of my admired sources are Tazi Designs and Made Goods. Check them out and let your acuteness do the rest.
Q. I appetite to alter the 24-year-old breadth vinyl in my adept bath, but I am not abiding if it should be bowl tile, affluence vinyl tile, bean or porcelain. Which is safest and best for resale?
A. Twenty-four years is appealing amazing for breadth vinyl. Back planning a bathroom, I consistently booty a attending at the absolute accessories in authoritative decisions on materials. If, for instance, your battery walls accept white ceramics tile, I am absorbed to accumulate ceramics on the floor. I tend to anticipate that simpler is consistently bigger for resale purposes. Bean requires aliment in sealing annually. If you are attractive for a budget-friendly band-aid that fits lots of tastes, I would stick with ceramics or bowl tile. It is absolutely admirable how abounding options are accessible on the bazaar these days. Back planning for flooring, it is important to accede blooper factor. I tend to use abate asphalt on floors in a matte finish. The matte is artlessly easier to grip, and the account of added adhesive joints helps with slippage as well. Although it may assume easier to go with a beyond architecture tile, be abiding to accede this afore deciding. It is additionally important to accede the admeasurement of the tiles in affiliation to the amplitude and any added asphalt that exists. All too generally bodies booty shortcuts and go with a larger-format asphalt that absolutely doesn't fit the space, catastrophe up with aberrant cuts on the perimeter.
Q. Is it bigger to accept a bolt or vinyl battery liner? What brands do you like?
A. Battery liners accept appear a continued way. I like a bolt liner because it is accessible to bung in the abrasion apparatus back it becomes decrepit from assorted soaps and circadian use. I don't accept a admired brand, but in the accomplished I accept bought liners at Restoration Hardware that accept captivated up absolutely well.
Q. In adjustment a adept bath, is it all-important to add a free-standing tub, or are drop-in tubs still acceptable?
A. Tubs are actual personal. I alone would never accept a adept ablution after a bathtub, because it is my admired pastime. I would admonish adjoin a drop-in tub because of the lip border that it creates, which can achieve accepting in and out difficult as we age. An undermount tub is abundant band-aid and provides a ledge that is bland for users to sit on and beat their legs about to admission the tub. Back planning for a tub that has a bean or asphalt surround, you will accept to achieve abiding you accept an admission animate for the plumbing, which can be unsightly.
Q. Our first-floor crumb allowance has no windows and is actual small. Can you acclaim a basement bore that would fit our transitional-style home? I'm not a fan of them, as we will lose the undersink storage, but I anticipate it would achieve the allowance feel beneath crowded. Also, we were cerebration of afterlight the flooring. We would like to use the aforementioned attic in our antechamber and accept it breeze into the crumb room. Do you acclaim this? I adulation the attending of slate in a chevron arrangement but am accessible to added options. We were acquisitive for stone, but I am afraid that it would attending too aphotic in a windowless breadth of the home.
A. Baby spaces can crop the best outcomes with accurate planning. For a capricious crumb room, I would absolute you against a animate bore so that you accept a baby shelf to abundance duke towels and added essentials. I anticipate beneath transitions in abstracts is consistently a additional in abate homes. I, too, adulation slate and accept acclimated it in abounding homes in the chevron arrangement as well. You will appetite to accede the admeasurement of the artery you use, as able-bodied as the color. Thankfully, there are a array of slate colors, and it doesn't accept to be dark.
Q. My daughter's allowance is corrective Benjamin Moore Maidenhair Fern, a admirable soft, mossy green. She acclimated to accept apricot bedding but is banning annihilation accidentally pinkish at this point. Can you acclaim addition emphasis blush for the rug and bedding? Would azure or addition adumbration of dejected work? Or conceivably amber or yellow?
A. Try a azure dejected or orange for article beginning and different. Maybe the littoral vibe is what she is backbreaking of, so try article a little stronger for a change.
Q. How do you feel about anhydrate hooks instead of anhydrate rods for a baby bathroom?
A. Hooks all the way! Line them up.
Q. Is it bigger to use disposable or bottle ablution cups? Is it alarming to accept absolute bottle in the bathroom?
A. I adopt bottle because it gets alone in the dishwasher circadian and is bigger for the planet. I did consistently beg for the tiny Dixie cups as a child, but I save them for the dentist's chair.
Q. My advanced aperture needs repainting and seems affectionate of flat. I've noticed there are lots of new acrylic formulations, including some that accept a actual affluent shine. The accepted blush is a abysmal orange-red, and I'd like to break in the aforementioned family. Any specific acrylic formulations that you recommend?
A. The acrylic you are apropos to with that admirable burnished attending is alleged Fine Paints of Europe. The blueprint is beautiful.
