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Article: Proper makeup will enhance a home's powder room
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2001
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Proper makeup will enhance a home's powder room
By MICHAEL WALSH
Sunday, March 18, 2001
The genteel phrase "powder room" allows us to approach designing a
half-bath with a heightened sense of propriety and a diminished sense
of practicality.
While the powdering of noses is hardly the limit of what goes on
in there, our collective denial of what the room is really for lets
us pretend otherwise. It reminds us, as well, that this is the
household bathroom in which our relatives and friends will spend
time, and we would like them to come out with a favorable impression.
Because of its diminutive size, you may be able to splurge on
quality since you don't have to spend on quantity. But the room ...