Are you ready to give your bathroom the TLC it deserves?

With the All New Bathroom Idea Book, you'll find all the inspiration you need to make your bathroom more stylish, more comfortable and more beautiful.

And as one of the rooms that's most likely to add value to your home, a bathroom makeover can be a smart investment too.

With 360 color photographs from today's leading designers and architects, this valuable reference book offers thousands of approachable design ideas for any style home.

And if you're watching your budget, you'll discover lots of practical ways to transform your bath -- without spending an arm and a leg.

As you flip through the pages of this great new resource, you'll discover inspiring ideas for every facet of your bathroom.

• Stylish new lighting fixtures
• The latest designs for sinks, faucets and toilets
• Exciting new materials for floors, walls and ceilings
• Space saving storage solutions
• New innovations in heating and ventilation

What's truly unique about this book, though, is its emphasis on demonstrating big-picture design solutions. On every page, you'll find fascinating ways to integrate and orchestrate all the elements of your bathroom into a single, cohesive, beautiful entity.

If you're looking for a single book with all the insights and inspiration you need to turn your bathroom into a showcase, this is the one.

Getting Started

Planning Your Space

Selecting a Style

Tubs, Toilets, Showers, and Sinks

Cabinetry and Other Storage

Choosing the Right Finishes

Lighting, Heating, and Ventilation

MY TWO TEENAGED SONS DIDN'T BELIEVE ME when I told them their Grandma (a spry 71-year-old who has been known to outlast them at certain games) grew up in a rural farmhouse without indoor plumbing. In her generation, she has seen the bathroom come in from the backyard to taking up three or four or more spots on a modern home's floor plan.

Bathrooms have not only come in from the cold, they have gone way past the utilitarian spaces of a few decades ago to being one of the most remodeled spaces in the home. These days, we value the bath as a personal, pampering space. For some of you busy homeowners, it's the only quiet time in the day! It's also a room that has a direct ability to affect the resale of our homes.

Though they are often the smallest spaces in the home, bathrooms garner enormous attention. Designing a bath can be daunting process thanks to the technical nature of plumbing--and to the sheer number of choices available to the shopper.

Enter the All New Bathroom Idea Book. This volume breaks down the process of designing a bathroom into a logical sequence, from planning the space, to selecting a style the family can live with and love, to exploring all the latest options in materials and fixtures. Detailed captions and multiple sidebars will guide you to the information so you can realize the new bathroom of your dreams. All the elements of today's bath are explored, from basic faucets to Zen shower stalls.

Best of all, hundreds of images of inspiring new bathroom designs will allow you to tour the best baths we found around the country, gathering innovative and well-designed ideas as you go. You can use these spectacular photos to "shop" for decorating ideas you'll love, and to find creative and practical solutions for your own space. Or use the book to communicate with your carpenter, contractor or design team, relying on the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words.

In your hands is a virtual designer's notebook of ideas, inspiration, and information. This volume is a wonderful first step in turning a dream bath into a real one, whether it's new construction or a remodel, a tiny attic bath or a luxurious master suite. It's all here for you.

Well, except the new eco-outhouse concept. I'm not sure Grandma is ready for that one yet.

--Sandra S. Soria