(ARA) - Ah, the bathroom - it's far more than just a room where we take care of business. For many of us, it is a sanctuary of solitude, a room for relaxation, and an investment for that day (however distant or close) when we'll need to wow potential buyers with a knockout bath.A converted schoolhouse in Bridgewater Corners, Vt.; a two-bedroom co-op in Chicago; and a two-bedroom houseboat in Portland, Ore. Falls are the leading cause of home injury and injury-related death in the U.S. However, new research from the Home Safety Council indicates only 25 percent of adults have taken any action at all to prevent injuries from falls in and around their homes.What does it take to make a home whole again? For Bonita Springs resident James Matthews, part of the answer lay piled beside the mud on his Quinn Street driveway. Water-stained sheetrock and mold-splotched wood furniture rested beside the smaller items — a colander, a spool of multicolored ribbon.Home buyers, designers, builders and dreamers will all be flocking to Lower Gwynedd over the next month to check out Philadelphia Magazine's 2008 Design Home, a $2.8 million, five-bedroom home set on 1.5 acres in the Enclave at Gwynedd off Sumneytown Pike.Our critic loves the food, service, martinis and riotous noise of the Denver ChopHouse & Brewery.Mick Barnhardt is a self-taught expert in difficult interior and exterior remodel projects. But when he began his fifth project in April 2004, he found himself exercising skills he never would have equated with plumbing or electrical engineering: basic survival.An incoming Yale student is building her own tiny — 8 feet by 18 feet — portable housing to cut costs and to leave an equally small carbon footprint. She expects to power her lights, cellphone and laptop computer with the energy from solar panels.(ARA) - Your bathroom is likely one of the smallest rooms in your home. In fact, most baths are 75 square feet or less. But, even if you are tight on space (or budget), you can create a huge impact with some simple updates. Just follow these easy rules and in no time you'll be living large.Estimating her expenses to live for two years in New Haven, Conn., while a graduate student at Yale University, Elizabeth Turnbull arrived at about $14,000, even if she shared an apartment.