Homeowners giving bathrooms a 21st century update

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Photos by Katherine Frey/Washington Post Slava Lazebnikov, shown with his wife, Margarita, bought and installed the latest high-tech bathroom products in the couples home himself. Illustrates DESIGN-BATHS (category l), by Audrey Hoffer, special to The Washington Post. Moved Monday, March 10, 2014. (MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Katherine Frey.)

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A cast-concrete sink in the powder room has a piece of onyx lit from below. Illustrates DESIGN-BATHS (category l), by Audrey Hoffer, special to The Washington Post. Moved Monday, March 10, 2014. (MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Katherine Frey.)

Homeowners giving bathrooms a 21st century update

WASHINGTON Slava Lazebnikov can set the water temperature of the shower from the living room, program a shower playlist while having dinner and lift the toilet lid while lying in bed.

After 15 years in his Rockville, Md., home, Lazebnikov said the bathrooms were outdated and needed something, well, a little splashy.

Now showering in the upstairs bathroom is a digital spa experience. Its really like in a carwash, he said.

Technology has become commonplace in many American homes particularly in the rooms where families consume their media, with devices that allow them to program their music and TV from their smartphones, and in the kitchen, with refrigerators that tell them when theyre low on milk.

But now its starting to catch on in the bathroom.

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