Even though the owner and designer of this Water Mill bath, Mode SB’s principal, is married with young children, she wanted the room to have a masculine tone, while also being luxurious and discreet. The most compelling detail, and one that every judge made note of, is the hovering double vanity, illuminated from below. While acknowledging the bathroom’s “masculine appeal,” judge Kim Seybert enthuses that “a woman would still feel comfortable using it!”
“It’s hard to believe this is in a house and not a spa!” declares judge Jennifer Post, whose fellow panelists all noted the use of natural limed oak to clad the Noyac bath’s walls and floor. To enhance the room’s linearity, the designers incorporated long, uninterrupted boards of wood coupled with horizontally positioned cabinets. “Using this bath would make you feel like you were on vacation,” says Kim Seybert.
In keeping with its beach setting, this bathroom in a home in Sagaponack embraces a gray and white palette. A basket-weave mosaic floor proves ideal for a room otherwise clad in large expanses of unembellished dolomite stone. “It’s gorgeous!” offers judge Mario Nievera, adding that “the space is sumptuous but manageable in scale.” The designers also configured the room to accommodate a steam shower, a freestanding whirlpool tub, and a toilet area discreetly separated by a ribbed frosted door.
Two materials—white tile and mahogany panels—were used to their best effect for this project, which echoes the design of the Amagansett house itself. The indoor/outdoor bathroom is a truly distinct space, incorporating an outdoor shower that’s situated in close proximity to the pool/lounge area, plus a glass door that separates the outdoors from the interiors while maintaining a pronounced visual connection. “This intimate bath integrates every detail with incredible precision,” comments Mario Nievera.
In this East Hampton bathroom, an otherwise neutral palette is made more vigorous via clear and opaque glass tiles in intriguing shapes. “It’s a clever use of materials for a very calming effect,” says Jennifer Post. Elsewhere, expanses of gray oak, porcelain, and glass further heighten the room’s serene ambience. Tom Vitale Design also equipped the space with a stall shower fitted with side jets and a rain-head fixture, a wall-mounted quartz-topped double vanity, and his-and-her medicine cabinets.
