The Traditional Bathroom
A roll-top bath set between two windows, with chrome pillar taps and painted panelling to picture-rail height.
Bathing Areas
One team, from the setting-out to the last grout line.
A bathroom is a small room asked to hold a great deal, and most of what goes wrong in one happens before the tiling starts. We set it out to the millimetre before a tile is fitted, then supply and fit the lot — sanitaryware, brassware, furniture, lighting and everything behind the wall.
See Every Bathroom
Fifteen millimetres out, and you will see it every morning.
Everything in a bathroom is fixed, wet and unforgiving. A tile course that dies awkwardly into a corner is there for as long as the room is, and no amount of good brassware rescues it. So the setting-out is designed before anything is fixed, and the cuts land where we decided they would rather than where they fell.
The wall does the work
A bathroom that reads as calm usually has fewer materials in it, not more. Two surfaces chosen to sit together will always beat five chosen one at a time. Large-format tile keeps the grout lines down, and a single niche is enough to give the room somewhere to look.
Storage that isn't a cabinet
The things kept in a bathroom are small, wet and unlovely. A vanity that runs the width of the wall with a push catch instead of a handle takes all of it and shows none of it, and leaves the basin as the only thing on the surface.
Light, low down
Downlights alone make a bathroom feel like a clinic. A lit niche, a backlit mirror and something warm at low level give you a room you can be in at seven in the morning and at eleven at night.
An old room, kept old
A roll-top on a boarded floor in a house that has had one for a century is not nostalgia, it is the right answer. We will happily fit a wet room with a linear drain, and we will happily talk you out of one where the room does not want it.
Bathing Areas We Have Made
All Bathing Areas → A Quiet Bathing Room
Two surfaces -- a pale marble porcelain and a fluted tile the colour of unpolished bronze -- and nothing else.
The Light in the Stone
A warm stone bathing room where every light is hidden and pointed at a wall, so the room is lit by its own surfaces.
The Room in the Roof
A bathroom in the loft, where the ceiling slopes on both sides and the only colour in it is the vanity.
What We Take On
- Design
- Measured, planned and designed before anything is priced
- Sanitaryware
- Baths, basins, WCs and concealed cisterns
- Brassware
- Taps, thermostatic valves, rainfall heads and handsets
- Tiling
- Large-format porcelain, feature tile and full-height wet areas
- Furniture
- Fitted vanities, mirror units and storage
- Lighting and heat
- Lit niches, backlit mirrors, heated rails and underfloor
- Everything behind
- First fix, waste runs, boarding, tanking and making good
In Our Showroom
The tile samples, the brassware and the baths are all in Morpeth, which is a far easier way to choose a finish than a photograph on a screen.
Come and see the tiling.
Samples are easier to choose in our showroom than on a screen. Bring your measurements and we will start there.