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The CLUE Board Game With a Houzz-Voted Bathroom Is Now Available
The CLUE game’s updated mansion features a space inspired by designer Ann Lowengart’s work and chosen by Houzz voters
In the case of which Houzz photo would inspire a new room in the CLUE board game’s stately mansion, thousands of voters solved the mystery this fall with their selection of a bathroom by California interior designer Ann Lowengart. And starting Jan. 1, the game board updated with the new bathroom will be available for purchase in the U.S. wherever Hasbro products are sold.
CLUE’s illustration team expanded Lowengart’s original powder room vision into a full bathroom on the board to allow more space for famous characters like Miss Scarlet and Professor Plum to commit their crimes.
The new room, shown here, features a stand-alone bathtub, a walk-in shower with gold hardware, an upholstered bench, a potted plant, shaded sconces inspired by Lowengart’s original design and a double vanity. On the new herringbone-pattern floor, an ominous spilled decanter could be the clue that leads players to uncover the killer at the center of the game.
The new room, shown here, features a stand-alone bathtub, a walk-in shower with gold hardware, an upholstered bench, a potted plant, shaded sconces inspired by Lowengart’s original design and a double vanity. On the new herringbone-pattern floor, an ominous spilled decanter could be the clue that leads players to uncover the killer at the center of the game.
The other three inspirational rooms voters considered for the game board honor got their share of attention from voters as well. Aside from the winning bathroom, a cozy drawing room designed by Chicago’s Michael Abrams, a Gothic-style bedroom designed by Tineke Triggs of Artistic Designs for Living and the dramatic hall seen here, designed by the team at Archer & Buchanan Architecture, were in the running. Archer & Buchanan’s hall in particular was popular among international voters, earning the most votes in Germany, India, Japan, Italy and New Zealand. Available in more than 30 countries, CLUE is one of Hasbro’s most popular international brands.
Find out more about the updated CLUE game featuring the winning bathroom design
Find out more about the updated CLUE game featuring the winning bathroom design
The game board’s update is a full-circle moment, Lowengart says. Her win got her thinking about how fitting it is that CLUE was her favorite game growing up; she loved the game’s emphasis on a beautiful old home and all its design details. “I can remember vividly wanting to be inside the mansion,” she says. Looking back now as a professional interior designer, she says, her love for the game while she was growing up makes perfect sense. Seeing the board’s new room inspired by her design was “very poignant.”
“It brought back a lot of memories of playing the game,” Lowengart says. “It validates that I’m doing exactly what I’m made to do.”
With the new room design chosen and the CLUE mansion’s renovation complete, deciding who murdered the game’s host and how just got even more intriguing.
Read more about Houzz and Hasbro’s partnership to revamp the CLUE mansion
“It brought back a lot of memories of playing the game,” Lowengart says. “It validates that I’m doing exactly what I’m made to do.”
With the new room design chosen and the CLUE mansion’s renovation complete, deciding who murdered the game’s host and how just got even more intriguing.
Read more about Houzz and Hasbro’s partnership to revamp the CLUE mansion
Out of the four possible inspiration photos from Houzz that could drive the new design, the one of Lowengart’s vibrant bathroom stood out to voters. With its saturated blue walls, formal finishes and pops of warmth, the space fits right in with the CLUE mansion’s grand, old-fashioned aesthetic while adding an updated twist.
“I think it’s perfect, because it has gravitas. That wallpaper really speaks to that formality,” says Lowengart, of Ann Lowengart Interiors. “It has a little bit of a continental feel, so it definitely speaks to that era, but it’s a fresh take on it.”
The photo that voters loved comes from a real-life renovation that Lowengart and her team took on, in which the homeowners were looking to carve out a formal powder room in the center of their historic home. “The rest of the house is really light and bright and airy, but they wanted their powder room to be a real jewel box,” Lowengart says.
See the CLUE game board’s new room