High End at Home. 

When considering a bathing space, homeowners Rich Ross and Adam Sanderson believe luxury shouldn’t be left to five-star hotels. “I love the idea of being taken care of in a bathroom,” Rich says, “so we really wanted to be able to luxuriate in a spalike environment in our own home.”

The room takes advantage of high ceilings to use a vertical perspective that increases the sense of spaciousness. A towering shower enclosure features a rain showerhead in the ceiling and metallic leaf figures inset between the tiles. Nearby, a discrete partition creates a separate, unobtrusive toilet space.

“Two fundamental things are found in most high-end hotel bathrooms: a glassed-in shower cube and a toilet area that is private, in a removed partition,” Rich says. “We did both of these things.”

The vertical, rectangular features are softened by undulating, curving details. A freestanding Victorian-inspired tub offers a languid counterbalance to the shower’s hard edges. The rounded details and elevated basins of the vanity echo the elliptical curves of the tub and mute a soaring, stately medicine cabinet.

Mueller Designs

Old World, modern, homes, interiors, yachts… Michael Mueller is having the design of his life.

Look no further than the name: Mueller Design Incorporated. Michael Mueller designs. Modern and old world interiors. Houses and landscapes. Residential and mixed-use developments. Yachts. “They’re a lot of fun!” he exclaims. It’s what he likes, and he’s an expert. He works on both coasts, directing staff in Los Angeles, Palm Springs and New York City. How does he do it all? By designing a life that he loves, of course.

For Mueller, “the property always dictates the layout of the house. You have to look at the direction of the sun, the slope of the land, the shape of it all.” It took Mueller a couple of attempts to figure out the lay of his own land. A self-described “lower middle-class white boy from a small town in Missouri,” he set out to get a college education. “Becoming a doctor seemed like the definition of success,” he recalls. Midway through an oncology rotation in Houston, he determined that he hated it...