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Constructing Bathrooms
When you're building or remodeling, which room in your house requires the most decisions? Inch for inch, it's almost certainly the bathroom. Few rooms offer so many choices, so be sure to use this helpful guide to planning, designing, and constructing it. Explore the possibilities for the shape of the room, door placement, and location of the tub, lavatory, and toilet. Study the many bathroom styles available, and make sure you're aware of personal touches that suit your taste. Expert tips explain how to select from the many styles of tub, shower, and lavatory, and whether you need a whirlpool, spa, or bidet. Then come your decisions about grab bars, towel racks, cabinets, counter tops, mirrors, and decorative elements. Special sections help you determine electrical and plumbing needs, plus ways to design for convalescence and disabilities.

The Essential Bathroom Design Guide
For many years the National Kitchen & Bath Association has conducted a prestigious education program for bathroom designers. The Essential Bathroom Design Guide, based on the NKBA's own six-volume manual, is an invaluable sourcebook and technical guide on bathroom planning and design. It offers an established set of bathroom planning guidelines - accepted as the norm in the industry - and provides authoritative presentations on every bathroom mechanical system, design issue, and planning principle, as well as fixtures, materials, and other equipment. Hundreds of design details, descriptive technical photos, and useful checklists help you make the most of all the information provided. Reliable data, proven techniques, and helpful tips prepare you to tackle every aspect of bathroom design.

This Old House Bathrooms
Have you finally decided to build that luxury bathroom, complete with sauna or whirlpool? Or do you face the more practical problem of too many people vying for the same shower in your household? Whether one is contemplating a simple cosmetic makeover or gutting the old room and starting from scratch, bathroom renovation has become one of the homeowner's top priorities. This Old House host Steve Thomas takes you through the step-by-step processes of design, renovation, and addition of different types of bathrooms.

The Bathroom Idea Book
When your bathroom needs an overhaul, how do you pick out the materials that will work best for you? In this book, noted home design writer Andrew Wormer leads us, step by step, through defining and decorating bathrooms. Whether you're remodeling a main bathroom to keep up with a growing family or creating a master bath for your own private luxury, Wormer's suggestions will point you toward suitable solutions. "Creating a new bathroom isn't rocket science, but it is more complicated than it used to be," says Wormer. But with this book, you'll have the ideas and information you need to design a stylish bathroom that works.

Tom Philbin's Costwise Bathroom Remodeling:
A Guide to Renovating or Improving Your Bath
A detailed guide to every aspect of renovating, repairing or improving your bathroom--from information on floor plans and working with contractors to plumbing and aesthetic issues such as lighting and ventilation, tiles and painting. Illustrated with numerous photos and drawings, it features sample floor plans for a variety of spaces and budgets. Also gives essential information on how to select and work with the right professionals--contractors, carpenters and plumbers.

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