Traders prepared multiple scenarios for the new easing plan, even coordinating bathroom breaks so trading desks wouldn't be caught understaffed when the headlines started to roll.

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The bathroom installation featured a "wet room" -- a growing trend in bathroom design -- that incorporates an open floor plan.

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The couple removed and replaced the home's parabola-shaped roof, stripped away dozens of layers of paint, ripped out a prior owner's black Formica bathroom, reverted the master bedroom to Mr. Lautner's original floor plan and redid a guest bedroom.

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Mr. Turner's open-plan studio takes up the ground floor, while a small kitchenette and bathroom, plus storage cupboards, are hidden behind sliding doors made from white-stained birch plywood.

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But soon Rich had begun working on it, learning carpentry, building a wing for two new bedrooms and a bathroom and another wing for his study, turning the original house into an open-plan living room, dining room, kitchen.

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