Bathroom

The Bauhaus bathroom is named for the tubular pattern on the floor tile.

The additional bathroom is located in the primary suite and offers a custom dual vanity.

In the master bathroom, the Smiths worked with a Boston-based company, Artaic, on the mosaic tile.

“The screening and this outdoor area off the en suite allowed them a garden at roof level—the green wall was the clients’ idea!” says Litera. “It creates a beautiful buffer between the real world and their sanctuary.”

The color is repeated in the main floor’s guest bathroom, adding an unexpected twist to basic white tiles. “Everyone has black or white grout,” says Marc, “but red is different and goes with the ’60s theme of the house.”

The tile is by Carter.

Black accents ground the light wood wall paneling, and the vertically installed subway tile adds texture to a peek-a-boo bathroom.

Carlos and Whitney knew from previous experience that their family needed a large bathroom. They were able to expand the shared bath by pushing into the closet of the bordering bedroom. A new skylight above the bathtub and a round window help filter in sunlight

The original home had 2.5 bathrooms, all of which were gutted and redone during the renovation. The shared upstairs bathroom was on the receiving end of the most extensive—and eye-catching—makeover. Checkerboard tiles from Fireclay are applied from floor-to- ceiling to achieve the “funky and different” they were after.

An updated bathroom features a mix of tiles: Carrara marble tiles on the floor, green subway tiles from Heath Ceramics on the inner shower walls, and white subway tiles from Daltile on the exterior walls. The fixtures are from Grohe.

Enormous windows allow light to flood the interior, while carefully framed views of the garden blur the boundaries between interior and exterior. The deep concrete bathtub in the downstairs bathroom, for example, offers views of both internal and external gardens.

“We value feeling over a perfect or manufactured finish,” says Kathryn, “so we jumped at anything touchy-feely, such as the droplet-like tiles cladding bathroom wing walls and structural columns that we are constantly petting.” Texture is at play everywhere, from a bathroom’s pebble-wash terrazzo floors that wrap up walls to the lush landscaping outside.