RETAILER CASE STUDY | The Tap End
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The Tap End explains how designer Zoe Curtis went about making this bathroom different from the others she’d already designed in the house
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super-tiny, it was on the smaller side for a family bathroom in a large property. We knew from the outset that it was not possible to take space from adjoining rooms, so we had just the existing floor-print to work with. It is rectangular in shape, so Zoe started by working out how she could fit in both a bath and shower. After much design development, she landed on a built-in bath with a walk-in shower side by side. The boxing allowed for the soil
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pipe to be concealed and the WC to be repositioned. It also made space for the linear alcove in the shower. Brushed brass was selected to add warmth and depth to the space and Zoe used a range that allowed her to get a perfect match on everything. The tile selection was a mix of large- format polished tiles, with an onyx-like pattern, and smaller brick tiles. Playing around with the mix of large-format and small-format makes for a more interesting tile pairing and breaks ‘conventional tile rules’.
The basin and WC area had to be compact to fit everything in, but Zoe
still wanted to use a separate basin and WC to create a more stylish look. The oval mirror draws the eye up
rather than across that space and the illumination in the mirror and under the vanity allow for ambient lighting in the dry zone. This lighting used with the shower alcove lighting creates a nice relaxing
glow or showers.
The vanity area had a matt finish stone resin countertop and matching bowl basin, which was soft to touch and different from the norm. The vanity had a warm wood-effect finish that com ple mented the brushed brass.
for evening baths
Overall,
this was actually a very
cost-effective bathroom, coming in at just over £9,000 inc VAT for the supply of everything (excluding fitting). It was not an easy design to execute, and it required very in-depth plans for the installerr to ensure that everything was fitted exactly as intended, as every centimetre counted. The layout is similar to things we have done in the past, so we knew it would work, but it is always a concern when a fitter hasn’t done this type of layout before – we wanted to make sure they had more than enough info to go on.
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