The Best Cream Bathrooms
06/15/2014I believe all bathrooms should be cream (or white or off-white) When you’re building a house, first you decide what your kitchen will look like, if it’s white or cream and then you chose the bathroom finishes to coordinate. I’m talking about the tile and countertops. This way you aren’t stuck with one paint colour forever…
Hex Tile On vacation these last few days when I posted a restaurant rest room and an ice cream parlour, both happened to have hex tile floors. Someone asked if they were trendy and I said yes. White Kitchen Then another reader posted that they are classic and date back to the early 20’s or…
It’s a good thing my brother-in-law Dr. Bill Jacobs is a good holiday planner because he’s directly responsible for the fact that Terreeia and I are here in Scottsdale, Arizona with my sister Elizabeth and my sweet nephews for 5 nights. William & Markus We’re staying at the Kimpton Firesky Resort & Spa. When we arrived in our looong…
We need a new toilet in our powder room. It doesn’t flush properly and it’s a problem when you have to have the plunger permanently installed like an accessory. Our powder room is off the laundry room which is the first room you enter when you walk in through the back door (below). If we get…
Best Fix for Ugly Tile in Bathrooms
04/02/2014Some of you will know that I am a huge fan of Jeffrey Bilhuber. So I decided to buy his first book the other day (I already have the other two), Jeffrey Bilhuber’s Design Basics. It’s full of great tips but the best one that has never occurred to me is what he said about…
Ask Maria: What’s Next After Subway Tile?
01/23/2014“I’m a big fan of your blog, and your e-book helped me choose paint colors I love when we bought a house last year. I love the look of subway tiles, but I’ve noticed they’ve been around for awhile. I know here in New York, I’ve been seeing them for about 10 years (they could…
Whenever anyone asks me if I know of a great kitchen designer, I always refer them to Jan Romanuk. She designed my fabulous white kitchen last year and Quality Cabinets installed the cabinets. Not only is she a wonderful kitchen designer but she has been renovating high end homes for so long, there is nothing…
The Best White Bathrooms
08/14/2013I believe all bathrooms should be white. Off white, or cream. When I say this, I’m talking about the tile and countertops (not cabinets or wall colours). And I have three bathrooms to renovate sometime very soon. And they will be white as that will flow with the rest of my house. Update, here they…
Ask Maria: Lip or No Lip?
04/19/2013I am a long time reader and have thoroughly enjoyed your blog ! I’m currently in the midst of a master bath update. I am replacing my laminate countertop with Cesarstone Organic White Quartz. This will be placed on a white cabinet in a primarily white bathroom. There is a full plate glass mirror unframed…
Is Your Bath Perfect or Just Perfectly Nice?
10/28/2012Is your bath perfect or just perfectly nice? When done well, a bathroom design will be perfect. You can’t just purchase the perfect bath, it must be created and designed. And, just like any other room in your home, it all starts with inspiration. Source I recently attended an event at Cantu, a fabulous bathroom…
House and Home I received some new quartz samples the other day. This is how they were packaged when they arrived. . . Every single sample had to be pried off with a screwdriver and taken out of the packaging. Why? Because it’s virtually impossible to choose the coordinating colour for your walls or cabinets…
Update on My Turquoise Bathroom
07/22/2012Last week when I posted my main bathroom colour (I’m not touching this bathroom until the renovation except for colour, light fixture and accessories) I got this email from one of my lovely readers Sherri Wheeler: ‘What you have done so far is a huge improvement but I think the towel bar really ruins it….
The Rule of More
07/21/2012source I chose two different faucets for both of Mom’s bathrooms in the carriage house she built last year. Because I’m in her house and see them all the time (different from a client’s home) one day I said to her, I like the faucet downstairs so much better than the one in your master….
Maria’s Main Bathroom: Before & During
07/06/2012This is one of our dated bathrooms which will be renovated soon. It was so hard for me to get past just the colour in here. See the chair rail? If you have it in your house and you don’t have wallpaper above it take it out! Photos by Maria Killam I didn’t touch this…
Green Yellows are Mostly Bad: Before & After
04/22/2012My lovely client Lynette called me to help her fix the colour in their newly renovated bathroom, it was not working. Before Although this colour did appear in her surround tile, it did not improve the appearance of her bathroom. Since the undertone of her gray tile was purple, that was the colour I selected…
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