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DESIGN
The wartime years of the 1940s were an era of sharing resources, taking turns and making do — a spirit that’s evident in the Spartan bathroom design of the period. When the Fluellings moved in, their home had two bathrooms: one in the basement and one on the second floor to serve the occupants of three bedrooms. To bring the domestic arrangements up to 21st-century standards, a new master ensuite
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bathroom was added to the second floor, and a powder room was tucked behind the office just off the front living room. The basement bathroom was also updated. The original upstairs bathroom, conveniently located at the top of the stairs, was reimagined for the children and occasional guests with two quartz-topped sinks that look ahead to the time when toddlers have become teenagers.
Distinctly grownup Llagostera Gris tiles from Mettro Source give the flooring extra character. “I’ve used one of the other tiles in that line and I loved it so well I really wanted to use this one, too,” Townson says. To give the master bathroom a streamlined gleam, she added a luxurious steam shower with bevelled tiles on the walls and Marmoker’s Bardiglio Imperiale porcelain tile on the floor. •
