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An eco-friendly family bath

Borrow a little square footage and put it to work for an efficient bathroom loaded with luxury. From This Old House

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Spacious family bath
Spacious family bath
Before the days of master suites with private dressing and washing areas, most old houses had just one lone - and typically tiny - bathroom used by everyone on the main sleeping floor.

So it was with Scarlet Fu and Dennis Goh's 1905 house in Brooklyn, New York, where a small, dim bath served not only the couple but also their young son and their soon-to-be-born baby.

To help realize their vision of a new bath that would be both luxurious and an efficient bathing and grooming space for their growing family, the couple hired Erika Doering, a local designer.

Doering devised a solution by converting an unused bedroom adjacent to the original bath into a new, larger shared space, claiming extra square footage for a built-in tub, a separate walk-in shower, a two-sink vanity table, and a wall of built-in storage.

The original bathroom became a dressing area and a passageway that connects the master bedroom to the new bath. There's another entry off the common hall.


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Last updated February 19 2008: 3:15 PM ET

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