Bathing Areas Northumberland
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.
Every light in the room comes from somewhere you cannot see. There is a niche cut into the shower wall with a strip above it, a round mirror over each basin throwing its light back onto the wall behind, and nothing overhead but downlights. Nothing is in your eye line at six in the morning.
Two stones do the work. The walls are a large-format travertine-effect porcelain, set with as few joints as the room allows, and behind the vanity it changes to a ribbed tile that breaks the light into lines. The same ribbed tile lines the back of the niche, so the wall you face in the shower and the wall you face at the basin are the same material.
The vanity is walnut and hung off the wall, so the floor runs underneath it and the room keeps its full length. The basins sit on the surface rather than in it. Every fitting is the same brushed brass, down to the radiator.
Every light in the room is hidden, and every one of them is pointed at stone.
The Room
What It Is Made Of
- Walls
- Large-format travertine-effect porcelain
- Feature wall
- Ribbed stone-effect tile, behind the vanity and inside the niche
- Vanity
- Walnut, wall-hung, with two counter-top basins
- Bathing
- Walk-in shower with a glass screen, rainfall head and handset
- Brassware
- Brushed brass, with a flush thermostatic valve
- Lighting
- A lit niche, two backlit mirrors and recessed downlights
- Heating
- Brushed brass ladder radiator
- Floor
- Oak-effect plank
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