Vanity Light Mistakes to Avoid: A Canadian Buying Guide
A vanity light looks like the easiest line on a bathroom renovation budget. Then the box arrives and the fixture is wider than the mirror, or the backplate misses the...
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Modern Vanity Design: Getting It Right
Modern vanity design gets misread more than almost any other bathroom decision. Shoppers picture a glossy white box with no visible hardware, buy the first one that fits the wall,...
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Modern Bathtub Design: Getting It Right
Modern bathtub design looks simple from across the room, and that is exactly why it is easy to get wrong. The look rests on a handful of decisions: silhouette, rim...
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Modern Toilet Design: Getting It Right in Canada
Modern toilet design is mostly about what you take away. Clean geometry, a concealed trapway, hardware that disappears from view. Get those right and even a modest two-piece looks deliberate....
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Modern Kitchen Sink Design: Getting It Right
Modern kitchen sink design is easy to get almost right. Kitchens from Vancouver to Halifax are full of sinks that tick every box on paper, rectangular bowl, undermount install, stainless...
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Modern Shower Door Design: Getting It Right
Ask a designer what makes a bathroom feel modern and the shower usually comes up first. Across Canada, glass has replaced both the curtain and the chunky framed slider in...
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Hand Shower Mistakes to Avoid: A Canadian Buyer's Guide
A hand shower looks like the easiest purchase in the bathroom. One head, one hose, one bracket, and you are done. Then the box arrives and the hose will not...
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Laundry Faucet Mistakes to Avoid Before You Buy
A laundry faucet looks like the easiest plumbing purchase in the house. It fills buckets, rinses paint trays and muddy boots, and nobody photographs it for a design magazine. That...
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Alcove Bathtub Mistakes to Avoid: A Canadian Buying Guide
An alcove bathtub looks like the easiest tub purchase in the showroom. It slides between three walls, the drain lands where the old one was, and most models share a...
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Composite Sink Mistakes to Avoid Before You Buy
Composite sinks have earned their place in Canadian kitchens, from condo renovations in Vancouver to century-home rebuilds in Halifax. Granite composite in particular, the blend of stone dust and resin...
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Bathroom Accessories Buying Mistakes to Avoid
Accessories are usually the last things ordered in a bathroom project, and that is exactly why they cause so many returns. After months of decisions about the vanity, the tub...
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Modern Kitchen Faucet Design: Getting It Right
Walk through any new build from Vancouver to Halifax and you will see the same thing at the sink: a tall, sculptural faucet doing much of the kitchen's visual work....
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Shower Drain Mistakes to Avoid: A Canadian Buyer's Guide
A shower drain looks like the simplest item on a renovation list, and that is exactly why it causes so much grief. It gets ordered last, checked least, and then...
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