SOMA Living June 2025

HOME DESIGN “I love what you did with the powder room,” said my wife. I was showing her the newly renovated kitchen I designed and the new powder room I built for a homeowner prior to putting the house on the market. (It’s now under contract, thank you very much.) “This one is rather tame, given some of your other designs,” she added. I laughed, “Maybe I’m getting conservative in my old age.” “But sometimes being creative with paint is all you need, especially if you’re on a budget and can’t afford wallpaper or the millwork needed for wainscoting.” “Right,” I responded, “and they can be so much fun!” (See picture below in the ad.) “Like that time you took a picture of peonies and had it blown up and made into a huge decal that you put in an all-black powder room,” she said. “Or the powder room with the wallpaper filled with cranes, then put up a sconce light that was fashioned to look like a nest with an egg in it!” I responded.

“I loved the ones where you did a dark paint on wainscoting, then put a William Morris style wallpaper above,” she said. “Ah, yes, the green and blue ones,” I added. “Those were beautiful...” “Yes, says the woman who works for a luxury wall covering company,” I chuckled, then added, “Powder rooms are a great place to tell a little story separate from the rest of the house.” “Exactly,” she exclaimed. “The whole house is a story, each room a chapter in that story, but the powder room can be a little story within the story and a great place to express yourself.”

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