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Bungalow Bathrooms

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This book is a must have if you planned to renew your old house bathroom. We own a 1910 foursquare house and we are looking for ideas and technical facts to do it right. Pictures are really inspiring and it's very interesting to know all those details about the history of bathroom in his early years. I also have ordered the Bungalow kitchen book and I hope it is as interesting as the bathroom book. I'll keep you posted.

I am doing a bungalow renovation, serving as the designer and general contractor ALTHO I have no experience in either area. I was all done, so I thought, but during the process made the decision not to replace the circa 1995 vinyl squares floor because I couldnt fine anything better. Voila! The room was all done, but - the floor looked totally yuck/wrong because rest of the room was in beautiful new correct bungalow style . I turned to this book for inspiration- and studied all the pictures- evening after evening. The right answer came! light grey 4" hex tiles! I am so thrilled even tho some of the work had to be redone... the floor pulled everything together.. like a little exclamation point. "BUNGALOW BATHROOMS" saves the day!

This book is a wealth of information for anyone restoring or remodeling a bungalow bathroom! All the information I have been searching for is right here in one book. We demolished a BAD 70's remodel, and are in the process of restoring our bath to it's original (1926) condition. This book covers it all beautifully!
Especially helpful are the sections labeled 'Obsessive restoration' and 'Compromise solution'. These give you choices on how historically accurate you would like to be. These sections have kept my husband and I out of marriage counseling!
I would highly recommend this book. I liked this book so much I want to get the others available from these authors.

A valuable resource for anyone considering options for the period restoration of a bathroom. We fell in love with this book as we've tried to solve our own first floor bathroom dilemma. From tile to wainscoting to fixtures to lighting to colors to ideas on decoration, this book is PACKED with great photos, an unsurpassed section on history, and guidelines for both the average and "obsessive" restorationist. The best thing about the book is imagining what it will be like to actually have an (attractive) working bathroom some day!!

... and that's what makes it so wonderful. If you're considering re-doing a bathroom in a 19th or early 20th century house---whether you'll be restoring an original room or destroying a 70's "renovation"---you need this book.

The author has a comprehensive awareness of both the stylistic and the practical issues involved. She also has a sense of humor about it all.

I was particularly impressed by the pictures. Several of the historical rooms are studied in careful detail, wth closeups of many features---not just the major plumbing fixtures. Also, all the photos were taken specifically for this book; so many bathroom-advice books feature mostly manufacturer-supplied photos that bear little relation to the text.

Maybe not the best possible book in the world, but the only one like it I've found.

I read Bungalow Bathrooms twice in one evening. First, I looked at the excellent photographs and at Jane Powell's sub-heads and chapter titles -- all bad puns. Then I read the book for content.

This is a smart, solidly researched and well-written book. These are rare qualities in how-to books. Bless her, Powell never writes down to her readers. She appears to be a bright, cheerful, opinionated woman who has a lot to share and has found a great way to do it. I like a writer who has passion and a recognizable voice -- that's Powell.

It's hard to imagine a more useful book for any interested in bungalows, whether as a design type found throughout the Unites States, or as a how-to-rehab it right guide.

I like the divisions of the book. You want sinks? Sinks have their place. You want tile? It has its place.

The photographs are terrific, the line drawings are an excellent guide.

Buy two, give one as a gift and keep the other.

But if you are looking for ideas of how the past looked---this is a limited source. It has a handful of historic homes with numerous photographs--toilet on one page, the tub 20 pages later and a light fixture 20 pages beyond that. The photos are great, but I live in Los Angeles (the birthplace of bungalow living) and I expected a lot more pictures of even the most architecturally insignificant homes that displayed wonderful examples of tile work, fixtures, etc. It is a book more for how to live with the old stuff rather than a book that glorifies the old stuff!

If you are even thinking about restoring the bathroom(s) in a pre-1940 house, this book is a "must have" for you. Jane Powell put everything you would ever want to know in there. This lady knows so much about antique bathroom fixtures it's SCARY! Written with a touch of humor reflecting this most personal of rooms. Just a hint of sexual innuendo mixed in with illustrated and narrative factual detail. Everything is included from hundreds of great photographs of period fittings and fixtures, floors and walls, to detailed text describing the nuances and subtleties of such things as tile, windows and doors, lighting, Fuller-ball faucets, bathtub restoration, angle stops, plumbing code issues, wash-down, wash-out and syphon-jet toilets featuring lions and dolphins, and much, much more. There is the most complete listing of resources for everything you need for a period bathroom restoration at the back of the book as well. As in Bungalow Kitchens, the camera work was handled by Linda Svendsen and it is Super too! In summary.......GET THIS BOOK!!