Origins Living | SUPPLIER PROFILE


The Astoria mirror on display at the Luck and Fuller showroom in Billericay


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Bathroom accessories brand, Origins Living, is in the best shape it’s been since its launch 27 years ago – and owners Sofia and Frixos Charalambous have ambitious growth plans. Rebecca Nottingham went to find out more from Sofia at their HQ in Essex


beginning of a love affair not only with him, but also with the bathroom industry. Like many others, Charalambous ‘fell into’ the bathroom industry but never left. Her 30-year career in the sector began after she graduated with a degree in business and marketing in 1993, which she put to good use in her father-in-law’s high-end bathroom showroom.


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“Frixos and I graduated in the midst of a terrible recession,” she explains. “We went to work at the Charalambous family bathroom business – The Bathroom Centre in Wood Green – while we looked for other jobs, but we loved it that much we never left. “I learnt everything I needed to learn during my time


October 2022 ·


hen Sofia Charalambous met her now husband Frixos at university, little did she know that it was the


at the showroom, which was an early adopter of the high-end, luxury design service. Even in the 1980s they were designing £50,000-plus bathrooms.” Charalambous has arguably become one of the


industry’s most passionate and fiercest advocates – leading to her being invited to join the business judging panel for the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards. And, when you consider that she and husband and business partner Frixos cut their teeth in retail, it’s not surprising that they based the model of their specialist bathroom accessories business around retailers. “Maybe it’s because of my degree in business and marketing, but I’ve always been one for building relationships and making everything a win-win situation for both parties involved,” she explains. “We really are passionate about what we do, and we go


Sofia Charalambous, co-owner, Origins Living


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