Guest bathroom with 3 x 6 tile wainscoting, black and white hex mosaic tile floor, white inset cabinetry with carrara marble. Polished chrome hardware accents. Shampoo niche features exterior of original home.

Photography by ibi designs

This compact bathroom feels more spacious, with open shelving for towels and a new walk-in shower. Glass doors visually open up the space and showcase the Onyx solid surface shower surround and beautiful accent tile. A built in linen closet feels modern, with a crisp white trim framing the cool gray doors. A banjo vanity top creates space for the door and more room for the sink. The countertop is solid surface Onyx to match the shower, with an integrated sink for simple cleaning. Light green wall color feels fresh and calm against the white and gray finishes.

We converted a 1/2 bath into a ¾ bathroom

An ADU that will be mostly used as a pool house. Large French doors with a good-sized awning window to act as a serving point from the interior kitchenette to the pool side. A slick modern concrete floor finish interior is ready to withstand the heavy traffic of kids playing and dragging in water from the pool. Vaulted ceilings with whitewashed cross beams provide a sensation of space. An oversized shower with a good size vanity will make sure any guest staying over will be able to enjoy a comfort of a 5-star hotel.

Photography by Ross Van Pelt

Anita Lang - IMI Design - Scottsdale, AZ

Kim Grant, Architect; Elizabeth Barkett, Interior Designer - Ross Thiele & Sons Ltd.; Theresa Clark, Landscape Architect; Gail Owens, Photographer

An ADU that will be mostly used as a pool house. Large French doors with a good-sized awning window to act as a serving point from the interior kitchenette to the pool side. A slick modern concrete floor finish interior is ready to withstand the heavy traffic of kids playing and dragging in water from the pool. Vaulted ceilings with whitewashed cross beams provide a sensation of space. An oversized shower with a good size vanity will make sure any guest staying over will be able to enjoy a comfort of a 5-star hotel.

Charming bathroom with beautiful mosaic tile in the shower enclosed with a gorgeous glass shower door. Decorative farmhouse vanity with gorgeous gold light fixture above. Meyer Design Photos: Jody Kmetz

Colonial White marble floor Antolini Precioustone Blue Agate sink base

This project for a builder husband and interior-designer wife involved adding onto and restoring the luster of a c. 1883 Carpenter Gothic cottage in Barrington that they had occupied for years while raising their two sons. They were ready to ditch their small tacked-on kitchen that was mostly isolated from the rest of the house, views/daylight, as well as the yard, and replace it with something more generous, brighter, and more open that would improve flow inside and out. They were also eager for a better mudroom, new first-floor 3/4 bath, new basement stair, and a new second-floor master suite above. The design challenge was to conceive of an addition and renovations that would be in balanced conversation with the original house without dwarfing or competing with it. The new cross-gable addition echoes the original house form, at a somewhat smaller scale and with a simplified more contemporary exterior treatment that is sympathetic to the old house but clearly differentiated from it. Renovations included the removal of replacement vinyl windows by others and the installation of new Pella black clad windows in the original house, a new dormer in one of the son’s bedrooms, and in the addition. At the first-floor interior intersection between the existing house and the addition, two new large openings enhance flow and access to daylight/view and are outfitted with pairs of salvaged oversized clear-finished wooden barn-slider doors that lend character and visual warmth. A new exterior deck off the kitchen addition leads to a new enlarged backyard patio that is also accessible from the new full basement directly below the addition. (Interior fit-out and interior finishes/fixtures by the Owners)