The NH 2007 Bath of the Year: The Art of the Bath
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September/October 2007
By Kelly Smith
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The Good Stuff
Salvaged door: To let in more natural light, it’s retrofitted with tempered glass. (Find a Habitat for Humanity ReStore near you: www.Habitat.org/env/restores.aspx.)
Lighting: Salvaged from a demolished theater, one set of lights runs on AC power and one on DC, so Nina and Scott can use lights without the solar inverter. (Solar energy is stored as DC power and converted to AC by an inverter, so this arrangement saves wear and tear on the solar inverter.)
Storage shelves: Nina sculpted these from scrap metal and glazed clay.
Poured concrete floor: Thermal mass keeps the floor cool in summer and warm in winter.
Sink and shower: Handmade from glazed clay, the shower drains into a graywater system that irrigates the yard.
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