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Bathrooms can be very dangerous, both to the disabled and the elderly. The smooth surfaces , awkward movements, and generally solitary usage of the bathroom makes it one of the most common areas for accidental falls and injuries to occur, both for the elderly and the disabled. However, given the prevalence of falls and injuries in bathrooms, there are many useful products on the market that can help prevent falls, and allow greater autonomy. Let’s take a look at 5 of the best ways to outfit bathrooms to help your loved ones avoid falls and other dangerous situations, and give you greater peace of mind. Grab Bars Grab bars are perhaps the single most important addition you can make to a bathroom to help your loved ones avoid falls and injuries. These simple devices are generally made out of a durable plastic or a high- quality stainless steel , and can be applied to walls in the shower, bath, or next to toilets to allow for increased grip and stability during awkward movements, such a...

Design May 31, 2017   Share To create a winning master bath with limited square footage , assess the space, identify the client’s functional, aesthetic and stylistic preferences, and focus on incorporating unique and spectacular design details . authors Ellen Cheever   All too often, designers across the country tell me that, when offered a master bathroom project , the clients’ dream of an adult oasis is limited by the existing bathroom space and their unrealistic budget. While this may be the reality we all face with our “post Great Recession” clientele, let me suggest you not spend your energy complaining…but be energized by the challenge presented to you. Several strategies can help you create an exciting solution for a master bath space that must be completed within the confines of the available square footage . And, while they may not all fit within the client’s budget, these strategies will at least help you justify a recommendation to increase the initial budget! While the...

Hey, what’s it called again when you buy a bigass house with three full bathrooms and none of them contain a working shower ? Oh, right. Irony. That was the story of my life for the first two weeks I owned the Liberty house, and it was mostly due to the fact that the house hadn’t been winterized properly. None of this, by the way, was the fault of the previous owner. In fact, other than some questionable layout decisions in the master bathroom (which you can see photos of here, or with a video impression of just how awkward that toilet placement is here), all of the work the previous owner is exactly the type of work I would do myself. Which is to say some of it was pretty high-end, and a lot of it was half-finished. On the high-end side we have this jetted shower from Delta faucets, which isn’t exactly a cheap throw-er-on-there kind of fixture. When I turned the water on in the house and this thing did it’s best impression of a car wash possessed by demons, my heart sank a little… I...

Bathroom Published on February 9th, 2017 | by Contributor The goal: to create a custom cabinet for our tiny 1950s pink bathroom . We have limited room, and the layout is as unfavorable as possible — with no inner wall space available for an additional, large medicine cabinet . Also, there’s the horrible color issue . The bathroom is a fleshy pink. We finally gave up the Victorian lace shower curtain and the flowery pink walls , and tried to transition to a less eye-searing palette, so the new pennyround tiles we added a few years ago — in pink, white, and various shades of gray — gave us the idea to go gray on the walls. But we were still stumped as to how to get more storage room in there. We went to Ikea for some inspiration. Photo: IKEA.com I immediately fell in love with the hot aqua Gunnern cabinet at Ikea (photo above). But it wasn’t enough cabinet. Also, it didn’t come in any other color, and we couldn’t afford to retile the entire bathroom . I decid...