PROJECTS

I offer my clients the very finest service and take enormous pride in having the ability to listen, and translate your brief into the perfect room for your needs. I give you the room you want to live in.

SANDY'S BATHROOM

My bathroom hadn’t been updated since 1964.  Everything was worn out and needed total renewal including a ‘back to skeleton’ alteration of layout.  The soil pipe and loo were in the top left-hand corner with the basin under the eave so you had to stoop to see the mirror and the bath was on the opposite side.

I moved the soil stack outside to fit a bath across the room with a shower above.  I used the existing chimney breast nib of 120mm depth to build a boxing across the whole wall to conceal all plumbing for the bath, shower and basin and to create a shelf and huge fitted mirror with LED side lights above the floating basin.  I wanted all taps to be wall mounted for the cleanest look and line.  I wanted a back-to-wall loo for the cleanliness of the built-in look and function.  I love a bidet and as there was room for one I added it and it gets used every day.  

The ladder towel radiator is plumbed from the wall rather than the floor, again, for cleanliness of look and function.  

The end wall beside the door has a large shallow storage cupboard for everything we need and we added a long, narrow floating shelf (an offcut from a damaged kitchen worktop, locally sourced) that runs the length of the room across the small side window and has an LED uplight strip at the back for comfortable and ambient night-lighting.  

The walls are mostly tiled with Porcelain tiles and the floor is Amtico.

HASLER's SHOWER ROOM

Silke and Patch had a very tired, badly lit and worn out L-shaped bathroom.  They wanted it to be a really great walk-in shower room that included their favourite colour of blue and that reminded them of being on holiday in Ibiza.

I designed a shower based upon the rustic built-in cave-style showers that I have found typically in the Balearic and Canary Islands with peep holes through the solid walls.  I created a useful short wall capped with quartz at the entrance to the 1700mm long shower tray. To create an open feel within the compact space I designed a purpose-built vanity unit across the corner with lay-on doors in a retro Spanish-style and a corner mirror unit with LED side lights. The loo was back-to-wall in a clean built-in area.  I suggested deep blue glass mosaic tiles for their iridescence for the shower, basin splashback and boxing for the loo for their authentic effect. 

When the tiles were grouted we could see that the tiles had been very poorly applied so they had to be replaced.  The tiles were found to be discontinued and there were no others like them. I needed a solution and fast.  I was having my house renovated at the time and I was telling my plasterer about my dilemma.  He suggested waxed Venetian plaster – an ancient finish designed to look like marble without the weight.  He could undertake this so with samples agreed and the trust of the client, the expensive glass tiles were plastered over and the finished effect was utterly beautiful.  Better than the clients could ever have imagined. 

GENER'S KITCHEN

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Creating the ideal space to suit your lifestyle is what good interior design is all about. By combining a broad knowledge of products with considerable creative design experience, I will seek the best solution to meet your realistic budget. The joy for me is having happy clients loving their new happy homes.

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LOCAL AND WORLDWIDE COVERAGE FROM MY COLCHESTER BASE

Creating the ideal space to suit your lifestyle is what good interior design is all about. By combining a broad knowledge of products with considerable creative design experience, I will seek the best solution to meet your realistic budget. The joy for me is having happy clients loving their new happy homes.

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