Waterworks

Waterworks at 3314 M Street NW is a luxury bath fixture and accessories showroom in Georgetown’s M Street design district, presenting the Waterworks program that has defined the high-end American bathroom market since Barbara Sallick co-founded the company in Danbury, Connecticut in 1978. The Waterworks program, which covers every element of the bathroom specification from the faucet through the tub and the tile, is organized around the principle that the bathroom deserves the same design intelligence that the living room and the kitchen receive: the bathroom fixture is not simply functional but is the object that the homeowner uses in the most intimate and daily contexts of the domestic life.

The Waterworks faucet program is organized around the specific design families that the company has developed over more than four decades of bathroom design: the Easton family, with its architectural profile and its polished nickel finish; the Henry family, with its softer proportions and its historical reference; and the Carbon family, with its contemporary precision. Each design family is produced in the full set of bathroom fixtures, from the basin faucet through the shower system, which allows the bathroom renovation to achieve the coordinated quality of the complete design specification.

The M Street Georgetown showroom at 3314 serves the Georgetown residential renovation market with the complete Waterworks specification, from the faucet selection through the tile sample display and the accessory selection. The Georgetown bathroom renovation at the level that Waterworks addresses is among the most significant investments in the Federal-period townhouse renovation.

Hours run Monday through Saturday. The Waterworks showroom at 3314 M Street provides the Georgetown renovation client with the sample-at-scale experience that the bathroom fixture category requires for the specification decision: the faucet must be seen in the actual metal finish and held in the hand before the Georgetown client can determine whether the proportions are right for the specific sink and vanity, and the tile must be seen in the actual color and texture at the installation scale before the pattern can be confirmed. The M Street showroom provides all of these experiences.

The bath fixture specification in the Georgetown Federal-period townhouse involves the specific decisions that the historical plumbing configuration imposes: the bathroom that was added to the Federal-period building in the Victorian era or the early twentieth century has the specific pipe locations and the specific floor and wall dimensions that the fixture selection must accommodate. The Waterworks design service, which begins with the client’s floor plan and the existing plumbing locations, develops the fixture specification that works with the building’s specific conditions. Hours run Monday through Saturday. The Waterworks bathroom renovation program, which the M Street Georgetown showroom at 3314 guides the client through from the floor plan to the final fixture selection, covers every category of the high-end bathroom specification: the freestanding soaking tub that has become the most requested single fixture in the Georgetown master bath renovation, the rain shower system that the Georgetown client specifies as the primary shower experience, and the heated towel bar that the Georgetown winter makes a practical as well as a luxurious addition to the bathroom specification. Hours run Monday through Saturday.