Our case in point is Crossville, one of the more innovative-and environmentally conscious-tile manufacturers I have yet come across.

What first piques my interest in them is their use of bamboo, as my partner uses this material whenever he can for the same reason that Laguna Bamboo does so.

I don’t normally write about other cabinetmakers, and I extra especially do not write about cabinetmakers in Southern California who aren’t named Joe, but every now and again, something comes along that makes a firm rule develop a bit of flexibility. And Laguna Bamboo is very much a case in point. What first piques my interest in them is their use of bamboo, as my partner uses this material whenever he can, such as in his bamboo shoe benches—and does so for the same reason that Laguna Bamboo does so. It is environmentally sound, by which we mean that the use of it does little or no damage to the environment.

I’ve written so much about contemporary design that I thought it might be fun to do a blog on the more traditional bathroom designs, but naturally, in so doing, I cannot bring myself to just write about the average bathroom, because we already have one of those, right? And, really, if all you are going to do for your own bathroom is pretty much what you already have—new shower and sink vanity, but essentially the same design—well, as I say, if that is all you are going to do, there really is no need for you to be surfing the Internet in search of bathroom design ideas.