“My clients were at a point in their life where they wanted to treat themselves to something wonderful,” interior designer Julie LaBruna says. Retired with grown children who had moved out, they’d considered renovating their primary bathroom for years. But it was a bad leak and a worse repair job that finally pushed them into a redo.
“A handyman had hacked up their shower rather than fixing the plumbing through the adjacent closet’s wall. They originally were going to have him redo the bathroom. But once they went to the tile store to pick something out, they were overwhelmed and realized they needed professional help,” LaBruna says. They called her, and the result is a bathroom that feels luxurious and warm.