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SOFT SIMPLICITY

At a sleek Hamptons house designed by Amy Lau, the master bathroom has a Wetstyle tub with a Dornbracht faucet.

GLAMOROUS COPPER

Originally the owners were going to bring a master suite, but they then looked up and realized that the third-floor loft, with its peaked roof and exposed beams, presented an unusual opportunity. "The first thing we shopped for was that tub," says Chicago-based designer Julia Buckingham. "It's the crown jewel."

STRIATED

Make up for a nonexistent linen cupboard with tactical storage. A medicine cabinet in a New York apartment steps 2 feet deep to fit towels. The shelves within are staggered around the plumbing, and a customized vanity hides bins for laundry and dry cleaning.

FLORAL CHANDELIER

Mirrors, marble and sunlight bring sparkle to a newly enlarged master bath. The garden theme of the Texas home is echoed in Nina Campbell's Orchard Blossom wallpaper and Canopy Designs' porcelain branch chandelier.

REPURPOSED WALLPAPER

Framed fragments of Gracie's Georgian Tea Trade background have the effects of landscape paintings in a South Carolina home's powder room. The vanity is a converted classic console.

FEMININE GLAMOUR

"It is important to create your bathroom beautiful -- it sets the tone for your daily life," says Florida designer Cheryl Kees Clendenon. With this notion as her driving power, she set out to make an area which was "feminine, youthful, and joyful" for a teen girl's en suite bathroom.