Bathroom design professionals work tirelessly to fuse practicalities with aesthetics in pursuit of magnificent interiors. In this three-part article collection which I call "Splashing Out: Bathroom Design Explained", I recall my experiences collaborating with many of London's best bathroom design experts to help readers understand this fascinating speciality design area. My second article dives into bathroom colour themes.
Have you ever seen a colour wheel? It's a key tool in the kit of any London bathroom design professional. The device can help us to select harmonious colour coordinates - whether the desired effect is slow and refined or fired-up and bold. For instance, some larger London bathrooms can be perfect for colour-divergent complimentary schemes. For this effect, your bathroom designer will select two hues from opposite peripheries of the colour wheel - perhaps a daffodil foundation with an indigo accent scheme! I note that more compact London cloakrooms would not be suitable for such a bathroom design approach because it would simply overwhelm the residents. For cloakrooms, a monochrome scheme with just one hue but plenty of variational tints might be quite splendid. Think of the exact same bathroom design as mentioned above but with robin's egg blue instead of the yellow - you can keep identical proportions and hardware, but the net bathroom mood will be utterly different. Ideal maybe for a South London semidetached home or a London Docklands warehouse conversion.
Well-heeled London businesspeople often crave the spa-style feel that is such a hit in modern times. Bathroom design professionals will focus on fresh, tranquil colours including plenty of sapphire and meadowland hues. A favourite technique of mine is to match these up with the ivory and dual-hue matt-shine metallic taps and waste rings that are often a feature of beauty parlours.
For many an age, society ladies in London have relied on makeup to beautify their faces and to obscure any undesirable blemishes. Colour can be used in the same way to el evate bathroom design to stratospheric opulence - maybe by making a feature of historic plumbing, dado rails or architectural elements.
I can remember when bathroom design lecturers at London's design colleges would insist that painting a more cramped bathroom in a less sunny colour would make it seem impossibly small. However, bathroom design mavens today know that this is far from true. Selecting various hues of a heavier colour in a less spacious bathroom can make the interior seem surprisingly large. Ribbled paint can seem to improve the proportions of the space while improving the level of visual and tactile engagement.
In my next article in this series called "Splashing Out: Bathroom Design Explained", we will discuss designing for kids.
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