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This bathroom renovation from interior designer Lori Pepe -Lunché is the most dramatic transformation to come our way in a long time. The dark, heavy, cavelike “before” is my idea of a bathroom nightmare . Even if this room were spic n’ span, it would feel unpleasant. Now that doesn’t mean a bathroom needs to be white and light to be appealing, but there’s just no denying that this is a vast improvement. I love the open layout and the exposed, seamless shower design ; not only does it make the room feel spacious and airy, but it also prevents any chance for clutter (which is my biggest obstacle in the bathroom). Make no mistake: a large renovation with marble tile is an investment. But results like these seem well worth it. Amazing work, Lori! —  Kate Have a Before & After you’d like to share? Shoot me an email with your images rig ht he re! (Low res, under 500k per image , please.) More images and basic steps after the jump . . . Time: The renovation took about five weeks from ...

OUT OF THIS WORLD | What's Up In Space - a weekly look at the biggest news coming down to Earth from space Find Your Forecast Scott Sutherland Meteorologist/Science Writer Thursday, August 10, 2017, 11:37 - The peak of the Perseid meteor shower is brightening our night skies this weekend, but this year, there's some good news and there's some bad news. What and when? First off, the Perseid meteor shower , or simply 'the Perseids', is one of the best meteor showers of the year. Not only does it deliver up to 100 meteors per hour, at least under ideal conditions, but it has the highest number of bright fireball meteors of any meteor shower of the year. A fireball meteor is one that flashes at least as bright as the planet Venus is in our night sky (or enough to be visible despite typical levels of light pollution). The Perseids are caused when Earth passes through a stream of icy, rocky debris left behind by a comet known as 109P/Swift–Tuttle. The meteoroids...

Kya deLongchamps considers the challenge of matching up facilities to square metres in the most hardworking and necessary of spaces — the bathroom. A smaller bathroom can be a triumph of spatial design and ergonomics — and there has never been such a wide choice of suites, storage and plumbing solutions to tailor out those millimetres. Rush your planning, however, and it can feel as if the walls are closing in around you in what should be a private and restful room. Follow our tips, however, and you can have a space scaled to crisp, clean perfection. A few millimetres shaved from a suite can make all the difference.  For smaller rooms, look for ranges which, though slightly compact, are in perfect proportion to each other. The right arrangement will fool the eye without cramping your style. Even the degree to which the WC pan intrudes into the floor-plan from the wall can make an amazing difference. * A rounder shape rather than a soft cornered triangular pan can save up to 5cm and...

It sounds like an odd, Vegas-y gag: Put two people in a luxury hotel room , and while one reclines on the bed, another is showering mere feet away, enclosed by nothing but a sheet of glass. But, as any observant world traveler will tell you, the peekaboo shower is officially having a moment, joining outdoor showers and tubs nestled against windows as spots for exhibitionist bathers to let it all hang out. 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge , which opened this spring, has you bathing in full view of the bed. The Fletcher Hotel Amsterdam has a beam-me-up-Scotty- style shower tube in the middle of the room. And the Prince Gallery, Tokyo Kioicho, a Luxury Collection Hotel , which opened last year, features a massive glassed-in shower- bathtub combo visible to the rest of the space—and to the city below. Why the new nudity? “Our goal was to create an environment that frames the hotel’s breathtaking views ,” says Eva Longoria of Madrid’s Rockwell Group, the architecture firm that designed the Pr...

The Savion Residence is a contemporary home designed for a family of four. It’s located in Tel Aviv, Israel and covers an area of 1,247 square meters. The project was completed in 2014 by Neuman Hayner Architects , a team that takes on a diversity of projects and has an open and constructive view and dialogue with everyone involved. View in gallery The architects’ goal has always been to create contextual and original architecture and to find ways to combine the individual and public interests in their projects. When designing the Savion residence, they had to come up with a design that was family-friendly, offering everyone intimacy but at the same time ensuring a smooth connection and transition between all the functions and spaces. View in gallery View in gallery The house was planned for a family of four and was organized in two cube-like structures. These volumes are separated and, at the same time, connected by a passage. The result is an L- shaped floor plan for the overall bu...