Happy Friday everyone! This beautiful summer weather has just been lovely on the wast coast, and it’s been inspiring some truly great designs out there in the bathroom renovation world. So, of course, we’re back with another Weekly Round-Up! This week focuses more on DIY tips to really get your creative juices flowing. Maybe […]
Archives for May 2013
How To Create A Heavenly Bath Experience
What constitutes a relaxing experience? What is your relaxation ideal, the one thing that soothes and comforts you like nothing else? Many believe that the first step involves coming home from a long day at work and stepping into the tub. Nothing beats settling into a warm tub for an evening soak to relieve stress […]
Unicorns, Green in the Bathroom, and Matt Damon’s Cause Gets Some New Friends – It’s Another Weekly Round-Up!
It’s that time again, TWI readers, for another Weekly Round-Up! This week has been very style-focused for us, so we hope you love colors, ideas, inspirations, and things that get your creative juices flowing! This time around, we find the most magical bathroom accessory you will ever see… then, we compare common design tropes […]
Great Bathtub Designs and Ideas
There comes a time when every bathroom could use a new bathtub – whether due to obsolescence or, well, just plain not-good-looking-ness. Is it that time for your home? Time to get a brand new bath tub to reinvigorate and revitalize your bathroom interior? If it is, or even if you are just curious about […]
Smartphones in the Bathroom, Weird Shower Curtains, and the Venezuelan Toilet Paper Crisis: It’s the Weekly Round-Up!
It’s been a long week filled with great bathroom design, remodeling, and news stories. We can barely contain our excitement to share our favorite finds with you! That’s right, Trade Winds readers, it’s time to kick off another Weekly Round-Up! In this edition, we explore how often people use their smartphones while in the […]
How a Small Flush Makes a Huge Impact in City Schools
New innovations to save water with every flush! Bayside High School in Queens is one of two public schools (along with Hillcrest High) in New York City that are part of a pilot program to change out old water-wasting toilets with new low-flow toilets. This pilot program is a great way to for the Department […]
The NAHB Releases Life Expectancy Data of Plumbing, Appliances, Furniture
Appliances, counter-tops and furniture, oh my! What is their expected life expectancy? This is a BIG question when it comes to building a house. What materials should the items installed be made of? These questions depend on a number of things such as amount of use, material quality, quality of installation, weather and climate and […]
Remodeling Budgets, Color Schemes, and We Teach You How to Make DIY Antique Cabinets (and shoot ourselves in the foot in the process): It’s the Weekly Round-Up!
It’s Friday, and even though I took a couple weeks off, it’s time for another Weekly Round-up! This week we saw many collections of beautiful images, helpful tutorials, and interesting videos all across the web. But for some reason, the things that struck us most were in the “colors and DIY” categories. It’s just been […]
Bathroom Makeovers: Where Does All That Money Go?
Tired of your current bathroom décor? Don’t worry, there are plenty of others out there in the same boat. With the current economy bathroom makeovers are few and far apart. What is one of the first things that comes to mind when remodeling a bathroom? For some it may be what type of materials to […]