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"Christine Pittel: Wow! Where did you get that green? Bill Ingram: This is a lake house, used on weekends, and that leafy green just says &amp;#039;cabin in the woods&amp;#039; to me. Suddenly you feel as if you&amp;#039;re outside amid the trees. Is this an old house? No, brand-new. But I wanted the bathroom to feel as if it was once a porch that&amp;#039;s now enclosed. It&amp;#039;s funny how with an old house, we work hard to do additions that blend in. With a new house, we try to make it look as if it&amp;#039;s been added onto over the years. What gives it that vintage feeling? For starters, the wood on the walls and ceiling is intentionally not precious--just flush board, tongue-and-groove. And the ceiling is planked in random boards that don&amp;#039;t even match the walls. There&amp;#039;s nothing suburban in this bathroom. No built-in double vanity. Right. The two washstands are treated like furniture and built out of antique oak, with honed gray-green limestone on top that has a dull, weathered quality, as if you had brought it in from outdoors. Why not build them with dark wood, like the floors? As long as they look good together, I just thought it was a lot better and more sophisticated if they weren&amp;#039;t a dead match. Too much dark wood can get oppressive. What made you choose a glass-enclosed shower? It&amp;#039;s so modern, in a very old-fashioned room. I like the glass. It just made the whole thing go away. Usually the tub would be in the main part of the bathroom, but I think the shower is more used. We put the tub and the toilet behind French doors, with old-fashioned caf\u00C9 curtains, for a little privacy. Typically, you&amp;#039;ve got a couple sharing the space. There are his-and-hers closets on either side of that shower. Whoever takes the left washstand gets the left closet. Everybody&amp;#039;s got their zone. You can be in the room together, yet you don&amp;#039;t have to infringe on each other. Where are the medicine cabinets? Behind the mirrors. We make them ourselves, so we can get any size we want. And it doesn&amp;#039;t look like a medicine cabinet because it&amp;#039;s so overscale. Be sure the frame projects just enough off the wall so you can open it with one hand.  Light fixtures help create mood. Tell me why that lantern appealed to you. It&amp;#039;s simple and spare--like an inverted glass jar with a bulb in it. And it&amp;#039;s hanging from a rope cord, so it&amp;#039;s this great combination of modern and rustic. The sconces, too, felt as if they were on the edge of modern, but then the shades take them back in time. And they cast a lovely, quiet light. You don&amp;#039;t want to lose all the shadows.  Get the Look... Tub: zumacollection.com.  Sinks: totousa.com.  Faucets: newportbrass.com.  Tile: americanolean.com.  Pendant: southofmarket.biz.  Sconces: vaughandesigns.com.  Hardware: ansaldi.com.  Rug: dashandalbert.com.  Stool: shopbellewether.com.  Shades: conradshades.com.  Paint: benjaminmoore.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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