Published: Martha Stewart

Washington DC | Private Residence

Located in the same grandly-scaled 1880 townhouse as our Capitol Hill Kitchen, we converted a former dressing room into a show-stopping primary bath, evocative of the extant character defining elements of the house and respectful of the original geometry of the room while utterly up to date with modern standards of luxury baths. Rather than the standard compartmentalized bathroom, we treated the plumbing elements as furniture within an historic chamber, slipping the shower and water closet into a ‘wet zone’ contained within a thickened side wall to preserve the effect of the historic room.

Loosely inspired by the bathrooms at Nissim de Camondo in Paris, we introduced a high dado of handcrafted wall tile, including custom corner transitions and fillets, within the wet zone and at the vanity, paired with vintage porcelain wall sconces and flush mount fixtures. To highlight the historic ceiling medallion in this room, we painted out the ceiling as an accent in Farrow and Ball’s ‘Setting Plaster’, and commissioned a new version of a Josef Hoffmann pendant to activate it.

• Location: Washington, DC

• Type: Townhouse, Partial Renovation

• Services: Architecture

• Contractor: Impact Construction

• Photographer: Jennifer Hughes

• Stylist: Kristi Hunter