Last night I found myself marking “add to faves” on almost every single one of laurasmera’s pictures. I’m a HUGE fan of clawfoot tubs, especially black and white, and this bathroom knocked me out. At first I was not digging the green tile floors, but they are growing on me:

Here is another clawfoot in a much more minimal bathroom (from laurasmera as well):

Speaking of clawfoot tubs, I have been failing miserably to enlist many members in a clawfoot tub Flickr group. If you have any clawfoot tub pictures, please add them to the group pool!

Thanks to laurasmera for adding so many great shots to Fresh New Spaces.

My boyfriend might kick me in the shins for posting this, but I have to share our most recent bathroom before and after project. We have a very very small bathroom with an old old clawfoot tub. I love the vintage look of our tub but without a doubt it needed a little tlc. So, we patched some holes and brought out the black paint…

Here is the before:

The transformation process:

The after!

Amazing the difference a little dab of black paint can make. She’s a beauty again!

I was leafing through a 1958 H&G and this ad cracked me up:

The entire theme of the magazine was all about how to be modern, yet it was still very family-oriented and full of features about picnics. It was so very Mad Men; I can picture the readers just leaving their trash on the ground when they were done picnicking. Obviously the modern part only regarded aethetics, as this girl is still wearing a poodle skirt and Bobby socks. It’s an interesting ad; clearly people were desperate to be considered modern, yet are grasping desperately to the past. The very transitional time is clear in the aesthetics down to the smallest detail.

A few other gems from this issue:

As usual, this is probably going to cover more than a week, as I have been catching up with all of my favorite design blogs from the last six weeks.

My IDOL Nicole of Making It Lovely has organized the most amazing closet in the world. It was really fun to get a peak at all of her amazing clothes and accessories. You can tell she uses her amazing graphic sense to style herself just as well as she styles her blog and her Pink Loves Brown lines! Here’s a little peak, click here to see the whole thing. (ADDED LATER: PLEASE SEE COMMENTS ABOUT HOW LAME MY CHOICE OF ADJECTIVES IS).

Love the best of ’08 work spaces curated by Emma’s Design Blog:

I’m awed by The house that floats on a Great Lake over at Inhabitat:

I’m gleaning inspiration from An Art Arrangement Round Up over at Style Court(be sure to click on the articles posted prior to this link for even more artful arrangments):

I’m cracking up over these flower urinals over at urban grace interiors!:

photo credits:

1) from Making It Lovely

2)from Emma’s Design Blog

3) via Inhabitat

4) from  Michael Bastian’s apartment, photographed by Melanie Acevedo for domino, September, 2008, courtesy Mrs. Blandings via Style Court

5) By Clark Sorenson via urban grace interiors

I love to peek in on Thom Filicia’s website and see what’s new from time to time. The white toilet with the black seat and lid jumped out at me. I like it. It has a crisp 1920′s look to it:

I’ve been seeing this white bowl/black lid trend lately. I first noticed one in my bathroom at The Standard on Sunset*, which tries hard to look like a no-tell motel with its tongue in its cheek. The lidless bowl is bad feng shui and has a deliberate institutional vibe. I guess they don’t want anyone to stay too long, so they make you feel like you are tinkling  in a  a mental hospital:

Last month I spied one in Rita Konig’s redo of Deborah Needleman’s guest bath in Domino:

The look is part retro and masculine. Perhaps this is the same toilet they have at some Old Boys Cigar and Scotch Club. What do you think of it?

*Ah, in my usual cruddy  and skill-less point and shooting technique, complete with the CVS bag full of stuff we forgot to bring with us is on the bathroom floor.

1st and last photos from Dominomag.com and Domino Magazine, respectively. photographer unknown; if you know, please comment so I can add it – I can’t seem to find it in the article. AHA! THANK  YOU ANG WHO COMMENTED: The photographer is a fabulous Australian chap by the name of Justin Bernhaut. Check out justinbernhaut.com!

photo two from Thomfilicia.com