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How to Install a Toilet on a New Tile Floor in 20 Steps

How to Install a Toilet on a New Tile Floor in 20 Steps
Embarking on a bathroom remodeling project that includes a new tile floor? Learn how to install a toilet seamlessly on your newly tiled surface in just 20 steps, ensuring a functional and aesthetically pleasing result. Step 1 Remove the toilet. To do this: shut off the water supply, flush the toilet, siphon any excess water…
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How to Install a Schluter Shower System

How to Install a Schluter Shower System
The majority of homeowners prefer the natural beauty of stone and tile over the pre-shaped plastic tub surrounds. This is true, especially for a luxury bathroom design. After the master bath was remodeled, we chose to go with a Schluter shower system for this project. Many bathroom remodeling contractors appreciate the ease of installation that…
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Main Types Of Toilet Flush Systems

Main Types Of Toilet Flush Systems
Need to install a new toilet flush mechanism or replace a broken one? Or trying to decide what kind of toilet to buy? Before you spend money, let's see what types of flush systems are available at all. For decades, people in the US used flapper-flush valves. However, newer options include siphon mechanisms and pressure-assisted…
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3 Best Automatic Air Fresheners for Your Bathroom

3 Best Automatic Air Fresheners for Your Bathroom
Keeping a bathroom smelling fresh can be tricky. Especially if it’s a busy household and you have different people using it. Not everyone has the same ‘standards’ when it comes to what stinks and what doesn’t. And even if you have a good air freshener, you can’t guarantee everyone will use it! Automatic air fresheners…
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Spring Bathroom Towel Color Combinations: Tips from Janene Ferrara

Spring Bathroom Towel Color Combinations: Tips from Janene Ferrara
To freshen up your home for spring, start with your bathroom. It’s one of the easiest and cheapest rooms to update in your home. “Redecorating a bathroom is a project you can do in a day,” said Janene Ferrara, owner of Dalehead Designs, an interior design firm in Sayville, N.Y. “It doesn’t break the bank…
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Simple Do-It-Yourself Bathroom Upgrades

Simple Do-It-Yourself Bathroom Upgrades
Considering how much time the average person spends in the bathroom, you’d think we’d pay more attention to how it looks. But if you’re anything like me, you decorate the loo once when you move in, then promptly forget about it as you tweak and shape the rest of the home. What starts as a…
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5 Expert Proof Ways to Clean Mirrors Without Streaks

5 Expert Proof Ways to Clean Mirrors Without Streaks
Guests might not notice the dust on your bookshelves or the dirt on your baseboards, but they will notice the streaks on your mirrors. We do live in the age of the selfie, after all. So, we asked: Mirror, mirror on the wall, what’s the right way to make you sparkle and all? The mirror…
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10 Tiny Sinks for The Guest Bathroom (with Dimensions)

10 Tiny Sinks for The Guest Bathroom (with Dimensions)
When space is tight and style is in short supply, these will help on both counts. All dimensions are in inches. We hate to play favorites, but these three sinks from Italian company Lacava are top of our list. Maybe it's because they remind us of 1st-class European train lavatories? LaCava is known for its…
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Improving Indoor Air Quality: Solutions for The Bathroom

Improving Indoor Air Quality: Solutions for The Bathroom
The bathroom is a major source of moisture generation and other pollutants. As bath designers, we need to be aware of ways that we can improve indoor air quality, control moisture, and create more positive environments in terms of safe air and surfaces, and energy usage. As whole house design becomes more technically sophisticated in…
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How Many Times Can You Reuse Your Bath Towel ?

How Many Times Can You Reuse Your Bath Towel ?
The problem with germs, bacteria, microbes, etc., is that once you start thinking about them, you kind of wish you hadn’t. If you are one of those people who wipes library books with disinfecting wipes before bringing them in the house, well, let’s just say, it may also get you thinking about towels, underwear, bed sheets, and pretty much…
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