Fine Homebuilding Magazine features THE CONCORD GREEN HEALTHY HOME Bath

Fine Homebuilding Magazine, one of my favorite trade publications, recently featured our project's first floor handicap-accessible bath in their latest Kitchen & Bath 2010 issue. While the need for an accessible bath may not present itself currently, it provides many benefits to all (from washing the dog to a truly mud-friendly mudroom), while ensuring that homeowners can age in place. Click here for full article, entitled Celebrating Ingenuity.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

(photos: Fine Homebuilding Magazine)

Powder Room Plus

The challenge was complex: Design a sunlit, wheelchair-accessible full bath, without an exterior wall for a window. Make it feel like a powder room, and therefore fit everything into a small footprint. The solution was simple: Make the whole room a shower. Taking a European “wet-room” approach to this project allowed the architect to break free of the clearances needed for a separate shower stall. The entire bathroom is waterproof, tiled, and sloped to a floor drain. Transom windows above the vanity borrow light from a sunlit stairwell. And a wall-mounted toilet and cantilevered vanity keep the floor clear for easy cleaning and visually enlarge the space.

Architect: Stephanie Horowitz, Zero Energy Design, Boston, Mass.
Interior design: Lisa Kauffman Tharp, Concord Green Design, Concord, Mass.
Builder: Aedi Construction, Waltham, Mass.

Resources:

Lavatory – Hancock Vessel, Waterworks

Shower and Faucet Fittings – Rohl Country Bath Collection

Dual Flush Toilet - Duravit

Limestone Wall Tile – StoneWood Natural Stone Planking, Maestro Mosaics

Subway Tile – American Olean

Floor Tile – Edimax Absolute Space, Best Tile/Geologica

Remnant Marble Countertop – Interior Stone, Waltham MA
Lighting - Wire Guard Industrial Pendant, Barn Light Electric

Mirror – Bradshaw Kirchofer

Sea Urchin Box – Hudson, Wellesley MA

Driftwood Sphere – Spero Home, Concord MA

A special thanks to ZeroEnergy Design and the folks at Fine Homebuilding Magazine for the coverage.