What makes a good bathroom?
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1. Opt for Timeless Design: Avoid falling for design trends, a common mistake in bathroom design. Tiles, known for their durability, make an excellent choice for bathroom walls. However, their robust nature can make uninstallation or updates challenging. Prioritize your personal style and select something you genuinely love.
2. Create a Stunning, Practical Splashback: When designing a splashback, aim for both practicality and visual appeal. Antique patterned tiles in subtle contrasting colors make a bold statement, while pastel shades add a touch of contemporary elegance. Simple geometric patterns can infuse a pop of color and a modern vibe, while jewel-toned glazed tiles create a particularly striking effect.
"We advise against using these for bathroom floors due to slip risk, but a glazed tile splashback or wall can provide a nice contrast with a matte floor tile."
3. Ditch the Safe White Grout: Avoid the common choice of safe white grout. Instead, opt for colorful grout to elevate your bathroom design. Colored grout can highlight specific colors in patterned tiles, offering a surprising touch of fun. Alternatively, using a contrasting color adds sophistication and depth to your design. Dark grout, in particular, adds texture and intrigue, remaining both sophisticated and practical.
4. Choose Glazed Tiles for Versatility: Don't underestimate the versatility of glazed tiles. Their reflective quality enhances the sense of space, making small areas appear larger by reflecting more light. Bright shades are both timeless and versatile, amplifying the enlarging effect of glazed tiles. While we caution against using glazed tiles for bathroom floors due to slip risks, they make an excellent choice for splashbacks or walls, creating a pleasing contrast with matte floor tiles.
"We advise against using these for bathroom floors due to slip risk, but a glazed tile splashback or wall can provide a nice contrast with a matte floor tile."
8. Choose the Right Tile for the Right Location: Avoid using the wrong tile in the wrong place. Consider the location's specific requirements, such as slip resistance for bathroom floors or compatibility with underfloor heating for wet rooms.
9. Seal Natural Stone and Tiles Appropriately: Ensure your efforts in selecting the right tiles aren't in vain. If you've chosen natural stone or tiles requiring sealing, use the correct product. Apply an impregnating sealant, like Stone Essentials Stain Block, after installation and cleaning but before grouting. For crackle glaze tiles, use a crackle glaze sealant. Apply a second coat after grouting. Consider a surface finish like Stone Essentials Stone Shield or Wax polish for additional protection, especially in non-wet areas, applied after grouting and fully drying (around seven days depending on humidity).
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Plisse 1700 Freestanding Stone Bath
£2,195.00 GBP
The BAULANE® Plissé 1700 is arguably one of our most fashionable designs, inspired by plissé fabric often seen in high end fashion couture. Plissé fabric takes its name from the French word for fold, and is known for its textured, puckered style, widely regarded for being wildly flattering for the way it drapes the body. We designed the Plissé 1700 to mimic these characteristics, with its form designed to flatter any bathroom space.
With equal substance to match its inimitable style, the BAULANE® Plissé 1700 has been designed with maximum user comfort in mind. An extremely generous 125° interior incline slope profile means this bath is ideally designed for loungers - if you like to truly unwind and relax, free of distractions, then this style of bath is for you. With a 20mm rim profile, the bath is sturdy but not obtrusive, and the rib detailing on the body creates an undeniable statement in your bathroom.
One of several styles in our collection featuring generous incline slopes, the benefits of this design feature are two fold - not only do you benefit from an extremely comfortable recline position, but you also require less water to fill the tub. Less water wasted, more comfort. Redefined luxury bathing.
Manufactured in our signature Baustone™ stone resin, the Plissé 1700 is inimitable and unique to the British market. Designed in Britain and manufactured exclusively for BAULANE®, it is supplied with a matching waste pop-up drainer and laser engraved with the BAULANE® logo; our hallmark of quality and prestige design.
