SERENE SANCTUARY Beauty flows throughout this personalised space
HOW BLAND BECAME BEAUTIFUL IN THIS EXQUISITE EN-SUITE RETREAT
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Having sold her restaurant and cookery school businesses, moved house and set up a new home fragrance brand, all in a matter of weeks, Angela Herbert was keen to create a relaxing retreat in her new home in East Sussex. ‘I’ve always wanted a really special, feminine bathroom, so the moment I picked up the keys from the estate agent in Tunbridge Wells, I went across the road to the C.P. Hart showroom and had a chat,’ she says.
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The director of design, Yousef Mansuri, took up the challenge of creating the new room. ‘The existing small en suite occupied one corner of a big bedroom, with an empty space in the centre,’ he says. ‘It made better sense to replace it with a new en suite created by building a stud wall across the width of one-third of the bedroom, producing a much more generously sized sanctuary-style space.’
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Seen from the bed, grand antique French double doors – a find of Angela’s – open on to the new en suite with a freestanding bath as the focal point. Painted in a soft pink for a classically feminine look, the double-ended design allows Angela to lie in whichever direction she chooses, able to gaze out of the windows at both ends of the room.
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Beyond the bath is a double-entry shower, its walls clad in eye-catching marble-effect tiles, with grey and gold veins that blend with the natural wood-look of the floor and balance the pinkness of the bath and wall. The shower screen is framed in black: ‘We wanted to bring in contrast,’ explains Yousef, who also suggested brassware and twin towel warmers in a contemporary matt black finish to accentuate the statement look.
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Tucked behind the entrance door is a double vanity unit with a large drawer and twin side cupboards. ‘I wanted to have plenty of storage in this area and I love the curved shape of this piece, something that is also picked up in the round wash bowls,’ says Angela. ‘The combination of the dusty pink bowls with the black taps is striking and perfectly blends femininity with a bold look.’ →
FITTINGS
BC Designs boat bath in Farrow & Ball Sulking
Room Pink, £1,584; MPRO floorstanding bath shower mixer, £1,092; wall-mounted basin mixers, £414 each; Vos showerhead, £376; Drench Border screen, £1,137; Artelinea Incanto vanity unit, £4,952; Cielo Era wash bowls, £723 each; Solstice lighted mirrors, £342 each; Vogue Chube towel rails, £326 each, all C.P. Hart
SURFACES Walls in Setting Plaster modern emulsion, £53 for 2.5ltr, Farrow & Ball. Norway
Micro Greige floor tiles,
£57.11sq m; Bistrot Calacatta Michelangelo wall tiles, £47.18sq m, both C.P. Hart