Sink on the Hallway,
Inspiration for a modern powder room in Tokyo with furniture-like cabinets, dark wood cabinets, white tile, porcelain tile, white walls, dark hardwood floors, a drop-in sink, wood benchtops, brown floor and white benchtops.

Photography by Keith Scott Morton From grand estates, to exquisite country homes, to whole house renovations, the quality and attention to detail of a "Significant Homes" custom home is immediately apparent. Full time on-site supervision, a dedicated office staff and hand picked professional craftsmen are the team that take you from groundbreaking to occupancy. Every "Significant Homes" project represents 45 years of luxury homebuilding experience, and a commitment to quality widely recognized by architects, the press and, most of all....thoroughly satisfied homeowners. Our projects have been published in Architectural Digest 6 times along with many other publications and books. Though the lion share of our work has been in Fairfield and Westchester counties, we have built homes in Palm Beach, Aspen, Maine, Nantucket and Long Island.

This home is in a rural area. The client was wanting a home reminiscent of those built by the auto barons of Detroit decades before. The home focuses on a nature area enhanced and expanded as part of this property development. The water feature, with its surrounding woodland and wetland areas, supports wild life species and was a significant part of the focus for our design. We orientated all primary living areas to allow for sight lines to the water feature. This included developing an underground pool room where its only windows looked over the water while the room itself was depressed below grade, ensuring that it would not block the views from other areas of the home. The underground room for the pool was constructed of cast-in-place architectural grade concrete arches intended to become the decorative finish inside the room. An elevated exterior patio sits as an entertaining area above this room while the rear yard lawn conceals the remainder of its imposing size. A skylight through the grass is the only hint at what lies below. Great care was taken to locate the home on a small open space on the property overlooking the natural area and anticipated water feature. We nestled the home into the clearing between existing trees and along the edge of a natural slope which enhanced the design potential and functional options needed for the home. The style of the home not only fits the requirements of an owner with a desire for a very traditional mid-western estate house, but also its location amongst other rural estate lots. The development is in an area dotted with large homes amongst small orchards, small farms, and rolling woodlands. Materials for this home are a mixture of clay brick and limestone for the exterior walls. Both materials are readily available and sourced from the local area. We used locally sourced northern oak wood for the interior trim. The black cherry trees that were removed were utilized as hardwood flooring for the home we designed next door. Mechanical systems were carefully designed to obtain a high level of efficiency. The pool room has a separate, and rather unique, heating system. The heat recovered as part of the dehumidification and cooling process is re-directed to maintain the water temperature in the pool. This process allows what would have been wasted heat energy to be re-captured and utilized. We carefully designed this system as a negative pressure room to control both humidity and ensure that odors from the pool would not be detectable in the house. The underground character of the pool room also allowed it to be highly insulated and sealed for high energy efficiency. The disadvantage was a sacrifice on natural day lighting around the entire room. A commercial skylight, with reflective coatings, was added through the lawn-covered roof. The skylight added a lot of natural daylight and was a natural chase to recover warm humid air and supply new cooled and dehumidified air back into the enclosed space below. Landscaping was restored with primarily native plant and tree materials, which required little long term maintenance. The dedicated nature area is thriving with more wildlife than originally on site when the property was undeveloped. It is rare to be on site and to not see numerous wild turkey, white tail deer, waterfowl and small animals native to the area. This home provides a good example of how the needs of a luxury estate style home can nestle comfortably into an existing environment and ensure that the natural setting is not only maintained but protected for future generations.

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This is an example of a small transitional powder room in Madrid with furniture-like cabinets, dark wood cabinets, an integrated sink and a two-piece toilet.

Mid-sized country powder room in Houston with furniture-like cabinets, a one-piece toilet, beige walls, marble benchtops, grey benchtops, dark wood cabinets, dark hardwood floors, an undermount sink and brown floor.

Mediterranean Style New Construction, Shay Realtors, Scott M Grunst - Architect - Powder room with custom cabinet details, we selected each detail on these doors and designed all of the built-ins and cabinets in the entire home.

Photo of a contemporary powder room with furniture-like cabinets, white cabinets, a wall-mount toilet, gray tile, yellow walls, an undermount sink, grey floor and white benchtops.

Small country powder room in Madrid with furniture-like cabinets, white cabinets, a wall-mount toilet, yellow tile, ceramic tile, brown walls, medium hardwood floors, a vessel sink, wood benchtops, brown floor, brown benchtops and a floating vanity.

Inspiration for a mediterranean powder room in DC Metro with a vessel sink, furniture-like cabinets, dark wood cabinets, yellow walls and terra-cotta floors.

Inspiration for a mid-sized traditional powder room in San Diego with furniture-like cabinets, beige walls, travertine benchtops, travertine floors, a vessel sink and medium wood cabinets.

Photo of a mid-sized traditional powder room in Los Angeles with furniture-like cabinets, dark wood cabinets, a two-piece toilet, beige walls, ceramic floors, an undermount sink, solid surface benchtops and beige floor.

Jolene Grizzle
Photo of a small arts and crafts powder room in Boise with an undermount sink, furniture-like cabinets, dark wood cabinets, quartzite benchtops, a one-piece toilet and grey walls.

Photo of a small transitional powder room in Los Angeles with furniture-like cabinets, green cabinets, a two-piece toilet, beige walls, dark hardwood floors, wood benchtops and green benchtops.

Photo of a small traditional powder room in Charlotte with furniture-like cabinets, beige cabinets, green walls, dark hardwood floors, an undermount sink, granite benchtops and beige benchtops.

Photo- Neil Rashba
Inspiration for an eclectic powder room in Jacksonville with furniture-like cabinets, red cabinets, slate floors, a vessel sink and wood benchtops.

Design ideas for a mid-sized contemporary powder room in Other with furniture-like cabinets, light wood cabinets, a one-piece toilet, beige tile, beige walls, light hardwood floors, a drop-in sink, wood benchtops, beige floor and beige benchtops.

Inspiration for a large traditional powder room in New Orleans with an undermount sink, furniture-like cabinets, medium wood cabinets, granite benchtops and a two-piece toilet.

Large mediterranean powder room in San Francisco with furniture-like cabinets, gray tile, white tile, porcelain tile, yellow walls, painted wood floors, a vessel sink, marble benchtops, beige benchtops and brown floor.

The Sater Design Collection's Alamosa (Plan #6940) Home Plan. Master Bathroom.
Photo of a mid-sized mediterranean powder room in Miami with an undermount sink, furniture-like cabinets, beige cabinets, solid surface benchtops, a one-piece toilet and marble floors.