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Wasauna opens retail store/showroom in Scottsdale, AZ

Wasauna, a manufacturer of steam showers, glass bathroom showers, toilets, infrared saunas, and walk-in bathtubs, has opened a showroom in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona. Wasauna bathroom products and especially their steam showers are respected in the bathroom industry for their quality, durability, and cosmetic appeal. We recommend anyone who is in the area and looking for steam showers or bathroom ideas to visit. The Wasauna showroom is located at 4419 N. Scottsdale Road.

Custom Glasswork by Laura Donefer

Laura has some great artwork and says she is "driven by inner forces which are unrelated to concious thought." I thought that was interesting. Check out her work at lauradonefer.com.

Casa Blu

casablubyronbay.com - worth taking a lot at, because this house is for sale and it's awe inspiring.

Glass art

"The diversity in my work expresses my need to explore and experience life. And yet, a common thread runs through it all. The duality and contradictions of life are expressed in the glass material that I work with. Hot and cold, fragile and strong, order and chaos, surface and interior; themes that are a part of my artwork."

View Alex Anagnostou's art at alexanagnostou.com.

Glass pots and scultures

All sorts of glass artwork by the obviously talented Marta Raczkowska is viewable at makememeltglass.com.

Glass sculptures at 2300 degrees

"My glass art involves solid glass sculpture. I often employs a technique known as 'sand-casting.' Very hot molten glass at 2300° F is gathered from the furnace with a cast iron ladle and poured into a mold of moist sand and clay. This produces an object with a rough, almost primitive texture. I find unlimited possibilities in objects that have served their useful lives and have been discarded. To embellish these with sand-casted glass forms causes them to take on new meaning entirely."

Check out Len Vincenti's work at leonardoglass.com

Glass birds

Piet Quekel designs sculptures combining stained glass, copper wire and rocks. You can visit his site at www.quekel.nl

Glass design by Linda Fraser

More glass pieces available at lindafraser.com

Custom glass glass

All sorts of glasswork by Scott Hegan is viewable on heganglassworks.com.

Glass.com kitchen and bathroom designs

Outstanding glass bathroom design and glass kitchen design by David Ruth of glass.com. You can reach him at 540-720-5584.

Home plans

Here are a couple of the many home plans available from nationalhomeplans.com, designed by architect Charles Koty. You can call him at (516) 876-9740.

Spiral staircase designs

The only site on the Internet dedicated to spiral staircase design!

Home rendering

All of these home renderings are really cool. Hard to believe this one is only 3000 sq feet. This home was done by wlmartinhomes.com, another site with tons of excellent plans.

All natural home designs

All natural homes: Sustainable design, passive solar, high thermal mass (HTM™), do-it-yourself solar house plans are featured along with septic system parts and consultation; Infiltrator chamber leach fields; ("graywater") greywater recycling systems; ("waterless") composting toilets; non-electric appliances; LP gas refrigerators; flood alarms drywells for storm water drainage and sediment control; Kobe stainless steel hoods; and energy saving products like shade cloth and heat storage tubes

Iron Artistica Scroll Standing Toilet Tissue Holder

"This climbing vine standing toilet tissue holder has a stunning naturalistic design." Very cool! Available from carolinarustica.com, an NC based company. YOu can reach them at (800) 205-7819.

Brocato Glass custom designs

BrocatoGlass.com features custom plate glass designs with cool emerald colors. These are some of their candle holders. You can reach Steven Brocato at (408) 264-2853.

Glendoria Interiors

Glendoria Interiors.com is a fantastic upscale interior design company based in Glendora, CA. You can reach them at (626) 335-7229

Harvest Moon Kitchen Set

Pine wood and stone. Gotta love old fashioned home designs. Harvestmoon.co.uk - call them at +44 1704 548176 for all sorts of unique furniture.

Dax Stores Fountain

Here is what the site's author told me about their products:

"Our store has an ecological theme, and the goal is to sell products that are natural, organic, recycled, or educational. This covers a large variety of goods, including furniture. When I created the store I wanted to offer stylish products that people would buy even if they didn't realize our products were good for the earth and good for their health. I didn't want to create a store that was an in-your-face eco-store. I wanted to created something more like Whole Foods grocery, which is a nice place to shop as well as being ecologically focused. The idea was to tap into people's normal quest for a product, like a patio set, bedroom set, or a mattress, and have them buy one that was good for the earth and good for their health. This vision has become a reality and our store has done very well."

Kitchen Artworks

Peggy Deras of Kitchen Artworks (650) 871-6006 has sent us two bathroom concepts:

First, a shower screen:


and second, a bathroom with a hanging toilet