Learning Bathroom Design from the Experts

Bathroom Colour Schemes
Often our London firm will field questions from clients about bathroom design colour schemes. Sometimes clients have heard that certain colours tend to work best for larger rooms, while others tend to be preferable for smaller rooms. And certainly in some of London's more compact flats the bathroom can sometimes be a little space-constrained! I always respond that the most important question is what colours will make the client happy. For bathroom designs, we will often recommend a set of darker shades in order to emphasise the personal and sanctuary-like feel of the space.


Colours to Avoid
The other question that often comes up in bathroom design - although of course it applies to any room in the home - is whether there are any paint colours that should definitely be avoided. Personally, I have fallen in love with black bathroom designs, lilac bathroom designs and even steel blue bathroom designs - so really I tend to believe that no colour is strictly off-limits! But I often remind my London-based clients that context is critical. For example, don't choose a bathroom design colour for your main residence in London that is also going to be used in your Florida winter condo, where the sun's rays are completely different!


Gadgets and Gizmos

The other day our London-based interior design firm received an email from a regular client asking about the latest electronic appliances that our bathroom design teams are currently seeing on the market. Today, we are increasingly proposing bathroom designs that include some sort of home entertainment features. The latest Sony and Samsung ultra-bright TVs can be coupled with high-end audio systems, DVD players and cable hook-ups to allow our clients to luxuriate in the bathroom while catching up with the morning's business news on Bloomberg or CNN. In larger London residences we have recently been installing a lot of the Miele built-in espresso machines as part of our higher-end bathroom designs. These appliances are elegant, sophisticated and very stylish. They quickly become a hit with the whole household - it's like having a personal Costa Coffee branch built right into your London bathroom design!

Bathroom Automation Systems
The other day I was talking with one of my colleagues about the latest full-automation and touch-of-a-button home wizardry systems, and specifically their compatibility with our bathroom designs. The concept is that multiple services are grouped together so that homeowners can remotely activate lights, electronics, alarms, appliances, and - in bathroom designs - elements like towel rails and mood lighting. We are increasingly recommending these options to our most discerning London clients, and the effect can be amazing if the client is technology-interested. But our bathroom design team always makes sure to emphasise user simplicity. There's nothing worse than our client not knowing how to activate the underfloor heating in their luxury London bathroom design just because they can't figure out which remote control to use!