It may seem a bit trendy and new-agey, but it’s hard to ignore the hype infrared saunas have been getting over the last year or so. Everyone from doctors to naturopaths to the true sage on health, Oprah, have been talking about infrared saunas and their benefits. With the reasons to get one flooding in (everything from weight loss to better circulation to improved skin to pain reduction – although we probably sold a few of you with just the mention of weight loss), we figured it was time to explore what was available in the market. [click to continue…]
Towel bars are totally overrated, right? Not according to my wife, who was very happy to hear Moen was sending us a medley of their bath accessories to review. Among that medley were a towel bar, a towel ring, and a hook for both their Sienna and Brantford line of bath accessories. It’s a bit of a long story, but our old bath hardware was a casualty of multiple lead abatement, painting, and stain/finish projects. The truth of it is, the old hardware went away because it was really ugly, and really flimsy. You know those towel bars that fall down if you just look at them funny? Anyway, you get the idea. Unfortunately for my wife, I sometimes remove/demolish hardware, doors, load-bearing walls, etc. before I actually have replacements lined up. Towel bars fell into this category. In a future HF article, you’ll even get to read about how to make an improvised towel hangar from an unsightly hole in your bath tile. However, improvised towel-hanging just didn’t cut it in this household. [click to continue…]
Every month we try to provide you with at least one interesting bathroom idea because, well, we all spend a fair amount of time in there, don’t we? It might as well be an interesting place.
While the toilet tends to get most of our attentions, we thought the shower could use a little love – specifically, the thing that covers it – the shower curtain. We found a shop on Etsy that puts a creative idea to work in a number of interesting ways.
Oh, late night TV, you are a savior to a writer. Recently, I saw an infomercial for a product called Saniflo – and boy did it get those HomeFixated writing juices flowing. That sentence will become much grosser once you find out what the actual product is and does. [click to continue…]
