Sunday, February 02, 2025

Bathroom

Customizable Bathroom Fixtures – Tailoring Your Space

When designing a custom bathroom, aesthetics are everything. While matching finishes can create a sense of unity in the space, stark contrasts can be used to enhance depth and complexity in the space, depending on how well they are executed.

Select a finish to tie together all the hardware in the space – from drawer pulls and knobs, to towel bars, sinks, showerheads and accessories. Then select a faucet to coincide with the style.

White Faucets

Nevertheless, a white fixture has remained a classic across all bathroom trends, offering style and functionality in one design. Suitable for modern to traditional interiors, white fixtures are adaptable enough to suit virtually any in-home environment.

In his design for the Talis E Collection washbasin faucets, which are hand-crafted from a single metal billet, Barber Osgerby—another design duo, in this case consisting of Edward Barber (b.1965) and Jay Osgerby (b.1968)—made use of matte white finishes on both body and handles, achieving an integrated as well as highly personal aesthetic, so that the aesthetic balance between the basin and the faucets remained the same.

Colour options available in collaboration with ethical design brand Nature Squared, paired with Watermark and Viviti taps from the Italian craft manufacturer Glass Design, make it possible to have programmable bathroom fixture finishes that could be personalised for each user. In reimagining bathrooms as living spaces, these minimalist fittings could be combined with any other variety of material, including textured mother-of-pearl handles in shades of blue fit nicely alongside wood, concrete, rippled terrazzo textures, light mint tones and patterned tiles – the possibilities are endless!

Chrome Faucets

Small bathing accessories such as taps and showerheads contribute greatly to the style and mood in which your house is furnished. They not only have to perform well, but also have to be in synchronisation with your sense of style – and there are various types for different styles.

Chrome hardware offers a modern feel with a glossy, scratch-resistant surface that requires minimal maintenance and won’t rust – just wipe taps down with vinegar and water to remove those water spots.

Brushed nickel has the look and feel of chrome, but with the subtle brushed finish to provide depth and texture. Nickel is also more durable than chrome so your custom bathroom with a brushed nickel shower or bath will withstand wear and tear better than a chrome bathroom not to mention the fact that it will display far less water spots and scratches. Just wipe the product with a slightly dampened cloth after each use for a “looks new for years” best. After pitting these two bathroom fixtures against each other, one wonders what kind of fixture will win in the battle against water for the bathroom accolades: chrome or brushed nickel?

Brass Faucets

Chrome, the old standby of bathroom faucets – the neutral choice that goes with almost anything – has virtually no interest to the most adventurous home remodellers, who are seeking out finishes such as brass to take their reno to the next level. House Beautiful says: ‘Brass has been gaining ground recently because more people have been looking beyond the plastic-heavy builder grade [faucets] for something with a little more ‘bling’.

Light and bright metals such as brass pair well with many different colours, but is complemented by natural hues to a greater degree. Recently, there has been a trend within biophilic design to bring natural elements, like a moss wall or natural timber planks, into the home to reduce stress and promote wellbeing.

Thus, when you mix metal finishes (such as brushed nickel faucets with brass mirrors and black hardware) in your bathroom, you injecting a bit of rhythmic interest, helping the room from feeling flat and monochromatic. Use the visual buffer room between each finish to help the eye move seamlessly room to room. The sweeps of the shapes & designs on brass faucets for your bathroom add drama, giving any space extra visual intrigue.

Black Faucets

Black, in a faucet, offers a striking, sophisticated accent to the bathroom. Where it adds a sense of drama to a light-toned, contemporary space, it adds drama to an industrial or farmhouse look with a similar sense of depth and dimension as black cabinets.

The matte modern black finish is spot and finger print resistant and easy to maintain, a soft touch that can be used with any colour scheme but pairs especially well with neutrals such as white and grey.

When decorating a space with black fixtures, keep in mind the colour preferences and interior style of your homeowner. Anchor the space with complementary or incongruent finishes to create a space original to their design hopes and lifestyle.

Fit everything in a black shade if you want a posey, glamorous space Black fixtures could match each other and create a consistent, uniform look in the space. For example, you could add black hardware on the shower doors, niche trim and bathroom sink faucet. You could do the opposite, too; for example, you could add geometric intrigue with hexagonal tiles and have sleek lines of black faucets.

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