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HOW TO UNPACK SPRING INSPIRATION Textures and shapes bring the bathroom to life as one of more popular spaces.
We identified bathrooms that have recently been refurbished using Bathroom Butler, that tells us about mood boards and how to refurbish and unpack the inspiration behind the spring season look. This mood-board was created for two, back-to-back en-suite bathrooms at a South Coast home in KwaZulu-Natal.
The home is rented out to guests, so the owners opted for a neutral colour palette. However, they needed robust, top-quality stainless steel accessories due to rust associated with homes on the coast plus the type of rentals they are attracting both locally and internationally.
Using the colour palette inspiration, natural and organic environment on the beach, is how the owners decided on cemcrete finishes and brushed stainless-steel bathroom accessories.
The owners fell in love with the hexagonal-shape tile after seeing a post from Bathroom Butler which seems to be popular in stores too and was the first tile they saw when they walked into a Durban store to buy mosaics for the floor. “It was a very obvious sign,” says the owner. With this second bathroom being frequented by most people, the owners decided to make this more of a statement space and again using a cemcrete finish.
They built up the basin from concrete and used rose gold and navy as the colour scheme which worked beautifully with Bathroom Butler’s rose gold bathroom accessories.
Using different textures and shapes bring the bathroom to life as one of the more popular spaces. Next up is the guest bathroom at a leading fashion designer Gert-Johan Coetzee’s fashion studio in Johannesburg.
Using the opulent and vintage style he has used to decorate the rest of his home was the inspiration behind the creation of this mood board.
When presented with the various coloured bathroom accessories, Coetzee gravitated towards the brushed bronze accessories that complement perfectly the mauve paint colour he selected for his bathroom upgrade. Finding creative encouragement from antique décor pieces surrounding his home, plus his idea to paint emboss wallpaper was an easy way to pull the entire mood board together. The final look was pulled together by sticking to a monochrome colour scheme with Exclusive Collection of polished stainless-steel accessories.
Simply pulling together a mixture of reflective and matt materials synonymous with a male’s personality and fashion paraphernalia and adding geometric pattern options resulted in this bold, statement-making mood board.
It [hexagonal-shape tile] was a very obvious sign.