Recessed bathroom shelves

Soon after we bought our house my husband did a lot of remodel work, including making a hallway so that if you enter the house from the back you would no longer need to go through the bathroom to get to the rest of the house.  It really was quite a maze.

However, by creating this hallway, he had to cut into the already-small-bathroom.  He didn't take much out, but every square inch counted in this small bathroom.  

I ran across this wonderful space saver at www.diyideas.com.  It is a recessed shelving unit with a door!  What a great idea!  

What you do is actually create shelving units inside the wall between two studs.  

This will really save us some space!

Open Waterway Bathroom Faucet

I think a lot of my house inspirations come from what I see in hotels.

I stayed at a new hotel in San Antonio this month where a conference was held for work.  At this hotel I found the bathroom faucet to be one that I hadn't seen before.  It had an "open waterway" for the faucet spout.  I liked it!  It seemed fresh and clean looking.

I am not totally sold on the one that is pictured above, but the idea is the same.  Like the one pictured below, they also have some faucets that are called "waterfalls" that I like too.

On a side note, the one thing I must have in the bathroom is a faucet that shoots the water out far enough so that when I wash my hands I am not crashing my knuckles on the back of the sink.  I really do not like the feel of that.  It is not that I am crashing them too hard and it hurts, I just don't like to feel so crowded.

What do you think?  Do you have any strong feelings about your bathroom faucet?