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Style. You can’t see it from inside the bathroom, but the woodsy lakeside site inspired the design. (This view out the dining room windows gives you a good idea of the setting.) “We wanted the style to say ‘lake house’ but not typically coastal or themed,” the designer says. White oak on the vanity, a whimsical faux trophy and pine on the mirror frame bring in rustic forest-inspired touches. But she balanced them out with more elegant touches, like the marble shelf with the twiggy silver-leafed brackets over the loo, the elongated subway tile and the beautiful patterned tile floor.Flooring. “This is my favorite budget-friendly tile. It looks beautiful, and it’s very easy to maintain,” Steidley says. It has the look of more expensive encaustic cement tile but is digitally printed ceramic tile. (At publication time, the price of the tile was under $6 per square foot.)Wall color: Cyberspace, Sherwin-Williams; shelf: World Market; floor tile: Merola Tile, Home Depot; browse bathroom floor tile
Vanity. The vanity was custom made, crafted from white oak with a wire-brushed finish and topped with quartz. Note the curved detail at the edges of the backsplash, which gives it a look that’s more like furniture and less like typical cabinetry. Faucets. The plumbing fixtures in polished chrome add shine to the room. Faucets: Miseno; quartz countertop: Colorado White, Maestro Surfaces
Photos by Michael Hunter PhotographyBathroom at a GlanceWho lives here: A couple of retirees who have a smaller home in townLocation: On Lake Texoma in Oklahoma (the lake straddles Texas and Oklahoma) Size: 84 square feet (7.8 square meters); 12 by 7 feetDesigner: Staci SteidleyThe most striking thing about this Oklahoma bathroom was actually a happy accident. Interior designer Staci Steidley had specified off-black shiplap for the bathroom’s vanity wall (as an accent wall) and for the rest of the room to be painted white. Somehow there was a communication breakdown and her painter painted the whole room the dark color. Though it was not what she’d asked for, everyone was gobsmacked by how striking it was. “This room doesn’t get any natural light, so we all thought black would be out of the question, but it turned out that we all loved it,” Steidley says. “We all” refers to the designer’s own family. Steidley was the interior designer on the project, and her brother, Aaron Adam, owner of homebuilding companyDevelacon, was the contractor. He was the one who first noticed the paint mistake and called Steidley to come check out the pleasing result before deciding whether to repaint th...
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