Archives: Bathrooms

How To Remove Soap Scum – Shower Doors

By Todd Fratzel on Bathrooms, Maintanence

How To Remove Soap Scum Our new home has a fantastic large two person shower which is one of my favorite features in the entire house. However, the great glass shower door has become a real challenge to keep clean. Our problem is with really hard to clean soap scum on the glass shower door.…

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Great Bathroom Faucet Types

By Todd Fratzel on Bathrooms, Feature Story, Interior Decorating, Plumbing

Whether you’re building new or remodeling an existing bathroom there are lots of great bathroom faucet types to choose from. Before you make a bathroom faucet selection it’s important to know what types are available and what limitations and benefits they offer. Faucet Color & Finish Faucets come in so many different colors and finishes.…

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DIY Tips to Remodel your Bathroom

By Todd Fratzel on Bathrooms

Today’s guest blogger is Sarah Scrafford who writes for International Listings. Bathrooms have come a long way from the utility rooms they were a few years ago. Most people are now looking to create a private space where they can unwind after a long day’s work soaking in a bubble bath with scented candles, music…

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Plan Your Future Basement Bathroom Before You Build

By Todd Fratzel on Basements, Bathrooms, Plumbing

If you’re getting ready to build a new home then you should be planning a future bathroom before you begin construction. Today more than ever people are building living space in their basements to increase the available living space and value of their home. Having a basement bathroom is a huge bonus for the functionality…

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Furniture Style Bathroom Vanities

By Todd Fratzel on Bathrooms, Interior Decorating

One of the popular trends in bathrooms is using furniture style vanities. Using a piece of furniture as the vanity base can give your bathroom a unique and warm feel. You can use an existing piece of furniture or you can buy vanity pieces that look like they were furniture at one time. In the…

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How to Tile Shower Ceilings

By Todd Fratzel on Bathrooms

Last week I was asked if I could explain how to install tile on an overhead surface (shower ceiling). Well I’ve done it once so I thought I’d share my experience installing marble tile on a shower ceiling. The first thing that I’d like to share is the importance of a proper substrate surface to…

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Custom Tile Shower & Tub Surround

By Todd Fratzel on Bathrooms, Interior Decorating

One of my favorite features of our new home is the master bathroom suite. Anyone that knows me might find this odd and even think I’d say the utility room, garage or basement, but the master bathroom is definitely my favorite room. The best feature hands down is the custom shower that I designed. The…

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Bathroom Remodeling

By Todd Fratzel on Bathrooms

When people talk about home improvement most people think about renovations, big and small and typically they end up talking about the bathroom or kitchen. So I found the following article informative and thought you might enjoy. Bathroom Remodeling Ideas by Kelvin Williams When you think about Ideas, what do you think of first? Which…

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