Small Changes, Big Impact
Bed & Bath Design : Episode BDE-1107 -- More Projects »
Host Joan Kohn visits the renovated 1928 city home of Sue Carter, who combined two bedrooms and two baths on the second floor to create a spacious master suite. Architect Michael Collins helped reconfigure the chopped-up space to create a feeling of space and height in the bedroom, bath and dressing areas using optical illusion and smart design choices.
- When combining rooms, the goal was to make the rooms feel larger, so as many windows as possible were kept. A false tray ceiling also adds to an expanded sense of space.
- Since the bedroom faces a busy city street, the walls were upholstered for a sound deadening effect. Another issue was privacy, and some of the traditional six-over-six windows were replaced with transom windows to provide light without loss of privacy.
- A realistic painting of a stairway hung on a bedroom wall gives an illusion of space.
- The area used for the dressing and bath room was divided into nooks without doorways for a greater sense of space. A door from the bedroom into the dressing and bathing areas provides privacy and a separation of activities.
- The unusual bath is finished with off-white crackle tiles in a variety of shapes. The floor of the shower and water closet is adorned with an elaborate mosaic design.
- A glass block transom window in the shower provides both light and privacy.
Guests Michael Collins
Architect, D. Michael Architects
Phone: 508-651-7099
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