W.S. Bath Collections Innovative Bathroom Designs
12 March 2010
“Born Again”
One of my favorite bloggers/designers, Cheryl Kees Clendenon, recently did a powder room bath which had a lot of unique problems, mostly revolving around its small footprint and cathedral ceilings. The finished result was stunning (here’s a link to it), but I bring that up because what Cheryl did was seek out products that were not the same as what one normally associates with a bathroom. I say normally associates, assuming that the readers of this blog site are people looking to remodel their bathrooms, a course they have decided upon because they are tired of what they now have. But once you decide that what you have no longer suits you, the problem then becomes, what are you going to do with this space?
One of the outlets I find myself particularly liking is W.S. Bath Collections in Pennsylvania for a number of reasons. The first, for those of my readers who have import anxieties, is that they are located here in the USA, which means that that particular bugaboo can be safely laid to rest. But I do have to point out that, more and more, I see that problem just kind of fading to black. I can “visit” Europe anytime I like with a coupl
e clicks of the mouse, and once one sees the many product design ideas they have, it just seems inevitable that those products will make their way to the USA. But I really started to talk about a company with cutting-edge products that already is in this country, so let’s do that.
What W.S. Bath Collections has done is set themselves up as an import company, which means that many of the cutting-edge Italian designs that make my heart go pitter-patter are easily available in this country. And this means, in turn, that when I talk about the designs in this blog, I am talking about products that are actually available world-wide, because those in Europe can simply go to the Italian sources, right? A little something for everybody-I like it when it works out that way!
But what I like about W.S. Bath Collections is their eye for the innovative and unusual and unique and different-how many ways can we say that? But a bathroom, especially one as small as mine or the one Cheryl remodeled, really needs something consciously apart if it is to get 
anywhere near the word “wow.” And that brings us to the W.S. Bath items I chose for today’s blog.
Given the room for it, wouldn’t you just kill for something as innovative as the Riva Art Basin Faucet that tops this blog? About the only downside I can see for it is the water bill you’d have if you entertain a lot, especially if you have friends like me, because I’m the kind of guy who would be in the bathroom half an hour playing with that faucet, trying to figure out (1) how it works and (2) how in the world anyone was ever able to come up with a design like this one.
The other thing I like about W.S. Bath Collections is the fact that they are so sell-named. They really do have collections of products for the bath, many of which are imported from Europe, all of which are definite mind blowers. And that’s the best part about remodeling a bathroom, I think, blowing people’s minds when they see the finished results. With just a little imagination, you can make it so much more than a simple remodeling; you can make it a renaissance.
Joseph
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March 13th, 2010 at 9:07 AM
Thank you Joseph! Excellent post and great company! I think the scale of a room plays an extremely important part of an overall design plan and often is ignored! So now I can say I have done baths with ceiling heights ranging from 7 ft to 14ft!