Pottery Barn Bathrooms (Pottery Barn Design Library) (Hardcover)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Over the past 50 years, Pottery Barn has developed a reputation as a home furnishing chain with its own distinctive, elegant designs. Intended for both the serious re-modeler and the aspirational dreamer, Pottery Barn Bathrooms does a thorough job of explaining the elements that make a bathroom comfortable and stylish enough to serve as a private retreat or communal spa. Each of its ten chapters is devoted to a single subject (fixtures, lighting, color, windows). After a quick overview of basic issues related to each topic, readers are invited to tour spectacular bathrooms through luscious photos and text explaining the color palette, room plan, and materials used. While the rooms tend toward the high end in terms of materials and available space, there’s a wealth of useful advice throughout that would be welcome to almost anyone looking to spice up an existing bathroom or planning to build a new one. --David Bombeck

Product Description

Demystifying the principles of interior design with hundreds of simple decorating ideas, Pottery Barn Bathrooms is the essential guide to bringing comfort and personal style to the bath. Photographed exclusively for this book in homes across America, Pottery Barn Bathrooms is packed with easily achievable ideas that help you create the ultimate bathing spaces, from powder rooms to spa baths.

Key Features:
-Room tours of real-life living spaces give you access to well-designed homes of all kinds, from country cottages to city apartments
-Color palettes and quick-reference guides to materials make it easy to apply dozens of creative ideas to your own home
-More than 250 specially commissioned photographs illustrate everything you need to know, from choosing fixtures, fittings, and furnishings to decorating with accessories

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848727614
• ISBN-13: 978-0848727611
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 9.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #83,832 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book, September 24, 2003

By	Lisa (St. Louis, MISSOURI United States) - See all my reviews

I received this book about 3 weeks ago and still look at it almost every night. The pictures are so beautiful, and the book gives advice on everything from lighting to color and space. If you are getting ready to re-do a bathroom, this book will give you some wonderful ideas, things you might not even have thought about! I hope Pottery Barn will make more design books!!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worse than their catalog--there's nothing you can get , March 16, 2005

By	J. Yu (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is my first review, but I have to let other people know what they are buying.
We are building an addition which includes a master bathroom and a half bath. My husband is a industrial designer and I'm a graphic designer, so we are designing them ourselves. We also subscribe to Metropolitan Home magazine, so our sense of design is up to date and we know what good looking bathrooms are(designed by well known and expensive professionals)
I've bought several books at Lowe's and borrowed some at the Library. Since there is no pottery barn store where I live, I ordered it online. Big mistake. It was even worse than the Pottery barn bed & bath catalog. The bathrooms pictured in the book are all huge. Most of them are as big as the master bedroom. And I agree with another reviewer, no typical tub or shower. In order to get those look, you should expect to sepend at least $40000(material and labor) if you have the space. Although it looks good, people don't recommend hardwood floor in bathrooms(even worse with freestanding tubs!). Color schemes look all the same, woodworks are all white, You'll get few ideas from this book. There's no examples of half bath or powder room. The products in the examples are mostly pottery barn, and there's a section on how to buy furnitures for your bathroom. I'm going to try to return this book if they accept.

Please don't buy this book, go to your local library instead.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Bathroom Book Yet, September 26, 2003

By A Customer

I've looked at numerous bathroom books but found the Pottery Barn Bathrooms book to be - by far - the best! This book had lots of beautiful, simple and creative ideas, and lots of pictures. I love it and highly recommend. The book is absolutely beautiful, very high quality and a great value.