By Sharon Jaffe Dan, Home & Design Magazine
[post_ads]The shower leaked, the whirlpool tub was collecting dust and the dark
marble finishes and brass trim had long overstayed their welcome in the
master bath of a Potomac Falls, Virginia, home. So when the owners
decided to renovate, there was no question the bathroom had to go.
They enlisted Jonas Carnemark
to mastermind a whole-house renovation that would recast their
traditional interiors with a clean-lined, modern aesthetic. “The clients
are fascinated with art and brevity in architecture,” the designer
explains. “They wanted to make everything cleaner and more organic.”
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The new bathroom boasts a soothing, pared-down vibe. A SieMatic
vanity and pair of Robern medicine cabinets—all equipped with hidden
electrical plugs—keep clutter at bay. Two Alape sinks in glazed steel
and an Artemide light fixture in hand-blown Venetian glass speak to a
precise, refined sensibility. The pale gray grain of the statuary
granite lining the shower wall and vanity backsplash recalls billowing
clouds.
After insetting a TV unit into the bedroom wall on the reverse side
of the vanity, the designer cleverly took advantage of the resulting
“push me, pull you” effect in the bathroom by creating an art niche near
the tub where the owners hung one of their favorite paintings, a
vibrant abstract. The sculptural Waterworks tub sits under a large
picture window that Carnemark designed to replace two standard
double-hung windows. “It looks like a painting,” reflects the designer,
who located the new WC closer to the master bedroom for convenience—and
also to make this spa-like bath “a destination of its own.”
BATH DESIGN & RENOVATION: JONAS CARNEMARK, CKD, Carnemark Design + Build, Bethesda, Maryland.
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