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White porcelain fixtures are always designer Paul Vincent Wiseman's choice for the bathroom. In this elegant room, he achieves a luxurious, spa-like feeling by surrounding fixtures with creamy woodwork and marble, then setting the room shimmering with silver accents, mirrors, and frosted glass. The lights over the sink are period gas and electric, with new crystal-fringed shades.

“My father always said I would do something big one day.‘I’ve got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,’ he’d tell me, after he’d had a few beers.‘You’re either going to do something very special, or you’re going to go to prison.’ And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.”